Sheryl Sandberg says women aren't losing ambition. Companies are pushing them out.
THE SO WHAT
If senior women are leaving because they don’t feel valued, you’re burning institutional knowledge and future leadership capacity, not just losing headcount. Treat this as an operational risk: measure promotion, pay, and attrition by gender at each level and fix the specific choke points this quarter.
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