It is almost universally accepted that companies with diverse leadership outperform those without; Gallup found that gender-diverse business units have higher average revenue than less diverse business units. Despite this, McKinsey’s Women in the Workplace 2020 report on workplace practices in over 300 companies highlights that although there has been a significant increase in women joining the workforce, women are not advancing into leadership. In this article David Green and Jonathan Ferrar discuss how ONA data can be used to understand how structural homophily within professional networks may be impacting career progression.

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