Gender parity at work is still decades away, if it ever comes at all. Why? Part of the problem is that men and women look at the same world and see different things.
Almost half of men (44 percent) say women would be "well represented" at their company if just one in 10 senior leaders were female. Only 22 percent of women agree with that. These findings come from McKinsey and LeanIn.org, via their annual report on women in the workplace, based on a survey of 65,800 people at 329 companies.
And this is actually an improvement, says Alexis Krivkovich, a senior partner at McKinsey's San Francisco office. In previous years, an even larger share of men thought women were well represented in company leadership — even when company-specific data showed that wasn't true. And men today are more likely to say gender diversity is a "high personal priority" than they were in 2015.
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