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.
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
Building leadership skills
Learn how to develop leadership skills with practical steps to build influence, communicate effectively, and become a stronger leader at work.
Guides
Getting a promotion
Learn how to get a promotion with a proven step-by-step approach to demonstrate impact, increase visibility, and successfully ask for the next level.
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
For working mothers
Learn how to avoid the motherhood penalty with strategies to address bias against working moms, increase visibility, and advance your career.
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
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
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.
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.
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 research-backed strategies that work.
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
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
“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.
Findings
The AI gender 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.