National Women’s Equality Day , observed on August 26, marks the adoption of the19th Amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote – 144 years late.

Women have been playing catch-up ever since, and nowhere is that more evident than in the workplace.

Last year, the gender wage gap widened for the first time in two decades; women today earn 83 cents on men’s dollar for equivalent work. They fall behind men at the first level of promotion and, according to an expansive McKinsey/ LeanIn.Org study, are 17 percent less likely to be promoted than men, at every level.

Similarly, despite some hard-fought gains for women in the C-suite, the “executive table” still has a dramatic dearth of women seated at it and the number is poised to decline further because, according to another

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