Early Career Women
Gain the confidence, skills, and guidance to navigate your first years in the workplace and build a strong foundation for growth.
Findings
What Is the Broken Rung?
Broken rung: the #1 barrier to women's advancement. Learn why women fall behind at the first step to manager—and what organizations can do to close the gap.
Tips
How to Find a Mentor at Work—and Why You Need a Sponsor More
Learn how to find a mentor at work—and why you need a sponsor even more. Research-backed strategies to build the relationships that drive promotions.
Tips
Why Are There So Few Women in Leadership?
The barriers holding women back at work, from the broken rung to flexibility stigma and maternal bias.
Findings
Lean In Circles Could Double Your Chances of Getting a Raise
New data shows Lean In Circles double your chances of a raise and boost promotions, leadership roles, and career growth. See how peer mentorship pays off.
Tips
What Is Likeability Bias? Why Successful Women Face This Hurdle at Work
New research shows women who come across as intellectually capable are treated with more hostility than men with the same abilities. Here's how to counter it.
Op-Ed
Good News for Women at Work: 3 Reasons to Feel Hopeful Right Now
Nearly all 369,000 new US jobs created in 18 months went to women, and other trends offer real reasons for optimism. Here's what the latest data reveal.
Tips
Asking for a Promotion in Your Performance Review: How to Prepare
Research shows what actually helps women advance — and it isn't working harder. Here's a week-by-week game plan for a performance review or promotion ask.
Tips
How to Get a Job in 2026: What Every New Graduate Needs to Know
The class of 2026 is entering a job market reshaped by AI. Here are the new rules for standing out on LinkedIn, in your resume, and during interviews.
Tips
The Surprising Benefit of Using All Your PTO
Taking your PTO can boost year-end performance by 8%. Here's how to prepare so time off actually helps your career — plus a checklist for a smooth vacation.
Tips
How to Deal With a Micromanager Without Hurting Your Career
A micromanaging boss can bottleneck reviews and make you feel like your expertise isn't trusted. Here's how to manage the dynamic without hurting your career.
Tips
The Hidden Rules of Work Every Young Woman Should Know Before Starting Her Career
In school the rules are clear, but at work they aren't — and ambiguity favors men. Here are the hidden rules young women need before starting a career.
Findings
Young Women Aren’t Opting Out. They’re Opting for Better.
92% of women under 30 want to be promoted — more than men. Young women are the most ambitious group Lean In has ever studied. Here's what companies must do.
Tips
How to Respond When Someone Questions Your Competence at Work
Women's competence is underestimated at work — especially in male-dominated fields. Learn how to push back when your judgment is second-guessed.
Tips
What to Do if Your Partner's Job Always Comes First
Earning less doesn't mean your career takes a back seat. Learn how to reset a household dynamic that's leaving you stretched thin at home and at work.
Guides
Accelerating Your Career
Learn how to accelerate your career with proven strategies to get promoted faster, build visibility, and reach the next level at work.
Guides
Asking for a Raise
Learn how to ask for a raise with proven strategies to build your case, choose the right timing, and negotiate your salary with confidence.
Guides
Building Leadership Skills
Learn how to develop leadership skills with practical steps to build influence, communicate effectively, and become a stronger leader at work.
Tips
What I Wish I Knew about Leadership Growing Up
Girls are often told they aren't leaders. Learn why that narrative is wrong and how we can help girls see themselves as leaders from a young age.
Guides
Getting a Promotion
Explore Lean In's promotion resources, from a step-by-step action plan to expert tips on visibility, sponsorship, and negotiation.
Findings
The “Gen Z Women Are Opting Out” Story Is Wrong
New Lean In research shows Gen Z women want leadership when companies show they want them. See the data on ambition and what employers must offer.
Tips
Public Speaking Anxiety: Why It's Different for Women, and How to Move Past It
Women face gender bias when speaking in public, from interruptions to harsher judgment. Get research-backed tactics for building presenting confidence.
Tips
How to Negotiate Your Salary and Get Paid What You're Worth
Women face more pushback than men when they negotiate. Here are research-backed negotiation strategies to help you get what you're worth.
Op-Ed
Why Women's Leadership Is More Important than Ever in the Age of AI
AI can't replicate communication, empathy, or ethical judgment, the strengths that position women to lead in an AI-powered workplace.
Op-Ed
Q&A: The Importance of Women's Financial Literacy, with Mrs. Dow Jones
Mrs. Dow Jones on negotiating pay, investing rather than just saving, and why financial literacy is real freedom for women in every stage of their careers.
Op-Ed
Q&A: The "Rainbow Ceiling" for LGBTQ+ Workers, with Layla McCay
Layla McCay explains the rainbow ceiling holding back LGBTQ+ workers, the pay gap behind it, and how allies at work can help close it starting today.
Findings
Interrupted at work? You're not alone.
Women are twice as likely as men to be interrupted or spoken over at work. See what the research shows and what you can do about it.
Findings
Why ambition and failure go hand in hand
Women fear failure more than men, and they're judged more harshly for it. See what the research shows and how to overcome your fear of failure.
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The hidden challenges younger women face at work
Younger women face ageism, sexual harassment, and promotion barriers at the same rates as older women. See the research and what companies must do.
Findings
Why we keep raising our voice for women’s rights
The fight for reproductive rights is far from over. See the data on abortion bans and why women's right to choose remains central to gender equality.
Findings
What happens when companies support Black women
Black women are among the most motivated and qualified employees, yet face the worst broken rung of any group. See the data and learn how to be a better ally.
Findings
The workplace doesn’t take young women seriously—now they’re fighting back
Ageism hits young women hardest—they face bias around competence and credibility that men their age don't. See the research and how women are pushing back.
Tips
How to Succeed in Your First Job
Learn how to succeed in your first job—research-backed steps for women to build visibility, earn promotions, and navigate workplace bias from day one.
Findings
The Broken Rung: Lean In Factsheet
The broken rung is the #1 barrier to gender parity in leadership. See the data on why women fall behind at the first promotion and what companies can do.
Findings
Gen Z Women and Leadership: Lean In Factsheet
More Gen Z women would seek leadership if they believed companies wanted them. Get the data on ambition, promotion desire, and what employers must offer.
Findings
“Imagine if they got support, this could be a woman’s world”
New McKinsey data reveals women face a broken rung in India, Nigeria, and Kenya. See what drives the gender gap and what companies can do to close it.
Op-Ed
The Number of Men Who Are Uncomfortable Mentoring Women Is Growing
New research shows more men are avoiding mentoring women at work. Sheryl Sandberg and Marc Pritchard on why this threatens workplace equality.
Op-Ed
Don’t Avoid Women, Mentor Them
Men avoiding women after #MeToo are making the workplace worse. Learn why mentoring women is good for everyone and how to start today.