Holding the Line: Women’s Leadership in an Era of Global Uncertainty

Session Summary

Women’s representation in senior leadership has grown substantially over the past decade, yet recent data shows that progress is often the first thing to give way under pressure. This session asks the more useful question: what actually makes leadership gains stick? Bringing together voices from business, government, and research, the conversation moves past representation statistics to the real drivers, sponsorship, structural choices, and institutional commitment, that let women’s leadership hold steady, and even grow, through volatility rather than receding from it.