How to address gender-based training gaps in the workplace

Just 5 percent of Fortune 500 companies are led by women. While the efforts to improve representation of women in leadership roles begin as early as elementary school and continue at every level of employment, the needle hasn’t moved in any significant way thus far. According to new research from online learning company D2L, that lack of progress could be because of the significant differences in the ways men and women are exposed to training at their companies.

After surveying 1,000 corporate workers across a variety of industries in February 2018, D2L’s research reveals that in general, women are less aware than men that training opportunities exist in their organizations in almost every category of learning, and less information is passed down to them from those at the top.

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