45% of women business leaders say it’s difficult for women to speak up in virtual meetings

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45% of women business leaders say it’s difficult for women to speak up in virtual meetings

Today’s remote work culture is having both a positive and negative impact on women in the workplace. While 70% of working women think the changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic will give them more flexibility to control their work schedule in the future, a recent report by Catalyst shows that this flexibility of working outside the office could also hurt women’s chances of feeling seen and heard at work.

In the recent survey of 1,100 U.S. working adults over the age of 18, Catalyst, a nonprofit that works to accelerate women into leadership, found that 45% of women business leaders say it’s difficult for women to speak up in virtual meetings and one in five women say they’ve felt ignored or overlooked by colleagues during video calls. Additionally, three in five female employees say they feel like their prospects of getting a promotion are worse in their new remote work environment.

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