, Columnist
The Anti-DEI Crusade Hasn’t Stopped Women Leaders
Corporate diversity is under attack. But women are still making progress in C-suites and boardrooms.
Ulta Beauty’s Kecia Steelman is one of the new crop of female CEOs named this year.
Photo credit: Ulta Beauty
Progress for female executives has always been so slow and plodding that every milestone, no matter how seemingly small or insignificant, gets celebrated.
But recently, sounding the alarm for women in corporate America has supplanted cheering the wins. And no wonder — a growing list of data points signal that the right’s attack on DEI is chipping away at women’s progress toward the boardroom and corner office: