Tips

How to Accelerate Your Career

Research-backed strategies to help women advance faster at work. Build visibility, earn sponsorship, and take the steps that lead to promotion.

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.

Findings

New research: Men are twice as likely to use AI in job interviews

Lean In research finds women use AI at work less often than men and receive less recognition for it. See the key data on the growing AI gender gap.

Guides

For Working Mothers

Learn how to avoid the motherhood penalty with strategies to address bias against working moms, increase visibility, and advance your career.

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

4 Tips for Mentors and Mentees

Good mentorship is a two-way street. Get research-backed tips for mentors and mentees to build relationships that actually advance careers.

Tips

How to Get Promoted

Learn how to get promoted at work with research-backed strategies to build your case, increase visibility, and advocate for yourself.

Tips

How to Build Leadership Skills

Learn research-backed strategies to build leadership skills, increase your visibility, and get recognized at work.

Tips

How to Succeed as a Working Mother

Mothers face real bias at work. Get research-backed steps to stay visible, navigate the motherhood penalty, and keep advancing your career.

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.

Tips

How to Raise Girls to Be Confident and Empowered

Good mentorship is a two-way street. Get research-backed tips for mentors and mentees to build relationships that actually advance careers.

Tips

How to Deal With a Micromanager Without Hurting Your Career

3 concrete tips for dealing with a micromanager

Op-Ed

Good News for Women at Work: 3 Reasons to Feel Hopeful Right Now

Good news for women across the job market and homeownership

Op-Ed

How the Manosphere Is Working Against its Own Cause

How the manosphere is hurting the very men and boys it says its helping

Tips

Asking for a Promotion in Your Performance Review: How to Prepare

A week-by-week guide to prepare you to ask for a promotion in your performance review

Tips

How to Get a Job in 2026: What Every New Graduate Needs to Know

A 2026 guide to getting a job in a difficult market

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How to Negotiate for Raises and Promotions

Women face a double bind when negotiating: ask too little and you're overlooked, ask too much and you're penalized. Get strategies that work.

Tips

The Hidden Rules of Work Every Young Woman Should Know Before Starting Her Career

Findings

Young Women Aren’t Opting Out. They’re Opting for Better.

Tips

What to Do if Your Partner's Job Always Comes First

Findings

The Real Risk with AI? Not Using It.

Findings

The “Gen Z Women Are Opting Out” Story Is Wrong

New Lean In research shows Gen Z women want leadership roles when they believe their company genuinely wants them there.

Findings

How the AI Gender Gap Will Compound the Leadership Gap

New Lean In research finds men use AI at work 22% more than women. Learn why the gap exists, what's at stake, and how women can build AI fluency now.

Tips

Public Speaking Anxiety: Why It's Different for Women, and How to Move Past It

Women face gender bias when speaking in public. Here are tactics for building confidence when presenting.

Tips

How Do I Manage a Performance Review after Maternity Leave?

Managing a performance review after a hard six months with a new baby? Get advice on giving yourself credit and reframing the conversation.

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 instead of just saving, and why financial literacy is real freedom for women.

Op-Ed

Q&A: The "Rainbow Ceiling" for LGBTQ+ Workers, with Layla McKay

Layla McCay explains the rainbow ceiling holding back LGBTQ+ workers, the pay gap behind it, and how allies can help close it.

Reports

Women in the Workplace

The Women in the Workplace report from Lean In and McKinsey: the largest study on women in corporate America. See the data on promotion, pay, and bias.

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.

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

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

“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.