McKinsey's "Women In The Workplace" Report Obscures What Companies Are Actually Doing To Women

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/aparnarae/2025/12/18/mckinseys-women-in-the-workplace-report-obscures-what-companies-are-actually-doing-to-women/

By Aparna Rae, Contributor.
I’m a serial entrepreneur building an inclusive future of work.
Dec 18, 2025, 09:00am EST



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When McKinsey and LeanIn.Org released their annual Women in the Workplace report earlier this month, the headline seemed measured, almost cautious: "Corporate America risks rolling back progress for women."

Read the data closely, and a different story emerges. This isn't about "risk" or companies passively "losing focus." The 2025 report, despite its carefully neutral framing, documents something more troubling: corporations are making deliberate choices that harm women's advancement, and they're doing it at scale.

Even more concerning, the report systematically avoids examining the populations most affected by these choices: women caregivers, women over 40, women with disabilities, and women in roles vulnerable to AI displacement and layoffs. What McKinsey presents as a study of "women in the workplace" is actually a study of women who've managed to survive in workplaces increasingly hostile to anyone with caregiving responsibilities or flexibility needs.

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The 2025 report provides the evidence: Companies are actively choosing policies that harm women's advancement. They're doing it while women's job security concerns are at five-year highs. They're doing it while systematically excluding women from AI upskilling. They're doing it despite knowing - from McKinsey's own data - that removing these supports tanks women's ambition.

Corporate dipshits!

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1. Corporate level misogyny...not surprised

white guys working overtime to suppress women's progress

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2. They're working hard to get us out of the offices and back into the kitchen

and bedroom. They won't be happy until that's accomplished. It started with the upper level, professional women. Women who have distinguished themselves in military service, for example. It will work its way down to the rest of us as the "Church" gets more involved in governing. There's where our biggest danger lies. The secular will attempt to take the vote away from us, and the Church will attempt to silence and "disappear" us. This is what I've been predicting for a number of years now. And I still see no proof of anything other than that happening... *unless* we can win back the government "hugely" at Midterms and in 2028. If we don't do that, women here will be at or below the level of women in Afghanistan, ruled by men and the talibangelicals.