We Still Don’t Have Enough Women in Leadership. What’s the Haps?

Courtney Branson
7 min readDec 14, 2020

We don’t have enough women in early, middle, or executive management. Why? The ugly truth roots so deep in American culture. Our culture is sexist. It will take meaningful, hard, and collective work to remedy the lack of women in leadership.

In the ’90s, Gwen Stefani cheekily called out sexism in Just a Girl — Oh, I’m just a girl, all pretty and petite — So don’t let me have any rights. My girl crew comes together to talk about the audacity and ludicrousy of men to mansplain, interrupt, and count us out. We dream up…

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