Compared to about 16-percent of men, over 25-percent of women say they may leave or downshift their jobs within a year—adding up to about two million American women—due to the economic and personal hardships caused by a year of crises. Our business community risks losing women in leadership and future women leaders if we do not develop comprehensive plans to support and advance women through this time.
According to McKinsey & Company's annual gender equity report, women have been more likely to face difficulty as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, like taking on childcare or homeschooling on top of already full workweeks. This was also true for women of color, but with the added emotional toll of recent racial injustices and the disproportionate impact of the virus on Black and brown communities. McKinsey notes that Black women, in particular, faced more significant barriers to workplace advancement and a lack of leadership support pre-pandemic leading recent events to exacerbate these existing hardships within this segment of the workforce.
Speakers:
Ellen Feehan, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Carol Lee Mitchell, Strategy and Segmentation Executive, Small Business, Bank of America
Don Smolenski, President, The Philadelphia Eagles
Dalila Wilson-Scott, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Comcast Corporation & President, Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation
Moderated by: Sue Jacobson, President, Jacobson Strategic Communications
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President, Jacobson Strategic Communications
san is an award-winning communicator, strategist, and advisor, bringing decades of experience to her work as president of Jacobson Strategic Communications, a Philadelphia-based public relations, public affairs, and crisis management firm. Actively engaged in the region, Susan is the Chair of the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, serves as a Commissioner on the Governor’s Pennsylvania Commission for Women, and much more.
Strategy and Segmentation Executive, Small Business, Bank of America
At Bank of America, Carol is responsible for leading strategic efforts designed to grow the enterprise business at large and is responsible for: strategic planning, process design, technology, and end-to-end client engagement. She has a B.A. in organizational communication from San Francisco State University and an M.B.A from Notre Dame University
President, Philadelphia Eagles Football Club
Don directs the business and strategic efforts, including sales, marketing, communications, and operations, for the Eagles. Don plays an important role in the team’s environmental initiatives, revitalization projects, and philanthropic efforts, including helping to launch the Eagles Care initiative in 2013, which forges annual, strategic partnerships with five local non-profit organizations in an effort to deepen the team’s community impact.
Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Comcast Corporation & President, Comcast NBCUn, Comcast Corporation
Dalila oversees all Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives and philanthropic strategy for Comcast, including the company’s $100 million commitment to advance social justice and equality. Dalila also leads Comcast’s community impact initiatives, provides strategic leadership throughout all aspects of its corporate social responsibility programs, oversees efforts to utilize Comcast’s world-class media platforms to bring greater attention to the work of its philanthropic partners, and more.
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