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To Solve the Leadership Gender Gap, Women Must Take the Job

Natalie Conklin
4 min readMar 7, 2021

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A 2020 Harvard Business Review article, What’s Really Holding Women Back?, concludes that very few women ascend to top management ranks because the hours are long and women are taking more accommodations. The article stuck with me, because while I can agree with each of these statements individually, linking them into a causal relationship just doesn’t feel right.

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Natalie Conklin

Fearless and forever curious — a life-long learner, explorer, cat-herder, and engineer, leading software projects for some of the world’s coolest companies.