Despite outperforming men academically, women often encounter significant setbacks early in their careers, a phenomenon McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez term “the broken rung.” This critical barrier occurs at the first step up to managerial roles, where the gender gap in promotions widens significantly.

Join us for a compelling session that draws on over a decade of research and insights from more than fifty influential leaders. Discover the strategies that have helped many women climb over the broken rung and learn how to build valuable ‘experience capital’ to maximize your career growth and earning potential.

What You Will Learn:

• The importance of experience capital in shaping your career trajectory and how to accumulate it effectively.
• Practical advice for young women entering the workforce, choosing roles, and navigating early career challenges.
• Insights into overcoming structural gender inequalities within organizations and the broader implications on wealth and health disparities.
• Strategies for leveraging internal and external job moves to build experience and close the technology gender gap.

Join us to arm yourself with the knowledge and tools to navigate and overcome career barriers. 

Kweilin Ellingrud is McKinsey's Chief Diversity Officer and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute, based in Minneapolis. As a senior partner at McKinsey, she has led research on gender equality, racial equity, generative AI, the future of work, and global competitiveness. She also serves clients in financial services across strategy and operational transformations.

Lareina Yee is a McKinsey Global Institute director who leads the technology agenda and is the global head of Tech Alliances. Based in San Francisco, she is a senior partner whose client work focuses on technology and AI. She served as McKinsey's first Chief Diversity Officer and, in 2015, co-founded Women in the Workplace, an annual research study that has worked with more than 1,000 companies and surveyed nearly half a million employees to understand the barriers to women's advancement in corporate America.

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