Goldman Sachs has spent consiferable time understanding what keeps women from climbing the executive ranks.
Their 2018 study - Closing the gender gaps: Advancing women in corporate America cites many things that corporations could do to support women at work.
Family-friendly policies can include paid parental leave, flexible working hours andarrangements, the opportunity for part-time work and emergency childcare, amongi others. Making these benefits available to men as well as to women, and standardizing the processes behind them, can help to reduce any stigma around utilizing such benefits. Doing so would again reinforce the idea that children, elderly relatives and school schedules are not merely a “women’s problem.” A