{"id":16840,"date":"2023-10-10T00:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T00:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/leadership\/beyond-the-broken-rung-or-glass-ceiling-perhaps-its-the-mirrored-door-holding-back-women-at-work\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T00:59:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T00:59:14","slug":"beyond-the-broken-rung-or-glass-ceiling-perhaps-its-the-mirrored-door-holding-back-women-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=16840","title":{"rendered":"Beyond The \u201cBroken Rung\u201d Or Glass Ceiling, Perhaps It\u2019s The Mirrored Door Holding Back Women At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s no secret that women face an array of biases as they navigate the complexities of work. And for decades, the idea of the glass ceiling points to the specific challenge women experience in reaching top executive roles.<\/p>\n

New research indicates the barrier issue begins much earlier. The 2023 Lean In\/McKinsey Women in the Workplace study cites the \u201cbroken rung,\u201d proposing that women are being held back at earlier career stages than previously thought. The study reports that fewer women are promoted to the manager level, resulting in even fewer women candidates available to promote to director level, and so on, all the way up the corporate ladder.<\/p>\n

As we work to make systemic changes that will bring more equity to the workplace, one author is stepping in with guidance for what women can do to help themselves in the meantime.<\/p>\n

Ellen Connelly Taaffe brings a new angle to this conversation, with ideas that are immediately actionable, because she highlights barriers that come from within. Taaffe\u2019s new book The Mirrored Door: Break Through the Hidden Barrier That Locks Successful Women in Place is a manual for women to navigate the challenges that might come from our own internal biases.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mirrored door is where we face opportunity and hesitate, deeming ourselves not ready or not worthy,\u201d says Taaffe, a successful corporate executive who designed her next chapter as a board director and professorship with the prestigious Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she is founding director of its Women in Leadership program.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI realized that women might reflect on their careers and find themselves lacking, when that definitely is not the reality,\u201d she said. \u201cMany women are more qualified than people who are being promoted around them, but in some cases they are holding themselves back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Navigate the Perils of Success<\/h2>\n

In The Mirrored Door, Taaffe describes what she calls the five perils of success:<\/p>\n