{"id":54365,"date":"2022-08-12T14:26:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/?p=54365"},"modified":"2022-08-13T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T14:35:24","slug":"empowering-women-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sogolytics.com\/blog\/empowering-women-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Better, Do Better: Focus on Empowering Women at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our conversation about corporate social responsibility (CSR)<\/a> is continuing, and our next focus is on empowering women. Women\u2019s History Month may have come and gone back in March, but it\u2019s important to do more than recognize women for just 31 days. Women, historically, have had to fight for equal rights, pay, and opportunities, and for the recognition that they were more than stereotypical gender norms.<\/p>\n

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A History of Women in Business<\/h2>\n

Why do we focus on empowering women, especially in business? Because it\u2019s been a focus since the early 19th century. In the late 18th century, many women began to inherit businesses from their late husbands or families, which allowed them to keep the companies when they would not otherwise have them\u2014and they were largely successful. (We\u2019re looking at you, Eliza Lucas Pickney<\/a>, for helping start that trend!)<\/p>\n

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Women took a more notable push into business, demanding to be allowed into spaces that previously were male-dominated industries. Notably, during World War II,\u00a0female entrepreneurship<\/a> skyrocketed, and contributed to the national pastime with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League<\/a> (AAGPBL) from 1943 to 1954. Those ladies were truly in a league of their own.<\/p>\n

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But while this sounds amazing, it\u2019s not all that great, when you think of the numbers. The further up the corporate ladder one looks, the fewer women are represented. A 2020 Mercer analysis of over 1,000 organizations<\/a> found that women made up a minority of leadership roles:<\/p>\n

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