Gender gap | Does the US produce more ambitious female leaders?

According to the latest data from Deloitte, the gender gap across the globe is still in a woeful state, especially among senior leadership.

There is, as innumerable reports have found, much that companies can be doing to ensure that women are in the leadership pipeline and actively being considered for management roles. For example, simply doing away with the cultural bias against women in the workplace.

Yet new findings from Kearney discovered that for many prospective senior leaders, the prospect of joining management isn’t an appealing one. What’s more, the data found a notable split in ambitions of women in the UK versus the US.

Findings pulled from polling over 1,000 female professionals ascertained that a lower proportion of UK respondents wanted to progress to the C-suite or go freelance, at around 22%. In the US, only 14% of women noted that they had no upward ambitions on the career ladder.