Career Growth
Navigate key career decisions, expand your opportunities, and take the next step toward your goals.
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.
Tips
How to Build Leadership Skills
Learn research-backed strategies to build leadership skills, increase your visibility at work, and get recognized for the contributions you're already making.
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 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
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.
Tips
How to Raise Girls to Be Confident and Empowered
Research-backed tips for raising girls to be confident, curious, and empowered—from encouraging healthy risk-taking to teaching girls the value of failure.
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.
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
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.
Op-Ed
How the Manosphere Is Working Against its Own Cause
The manosphere pushes retrograde ideas about masculinity, but research shows this kind of backlash to gender progress ultimately hurts men most.
Findings
The Real Risk with AI? Not Using It.
The gender gap in AI adoption is real. Here's how women can make sure they're not left behind as AI reshapes work, hiring, and career opportunities.
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.
Findings
New research: Men are twice as likely to use AI in job interviews
New Lean In research: men are twice as likely as women to use AI in job interviews. See the data on the gap and how to use AI without disqualifying yourself.
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.
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 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.
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.
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, from interruptions to harsher judgment. Get research-backed tactics for building presenting confidence.
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 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
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 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.