10 | WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE: THE UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD THE UNEVEN PLAYING FIELD Less support from managers Women, especially women ALL WOMEN of color, receive less support from managers than men do. On a few critical fronts, managers provide less support to women than men, including providing the resources This is a problem because they need to succeed and helping them navigate manager support is tied organizational politics. These imbalances, though small on their own, add up. to positive outcomes like Women are also less likely than men to socialize with higher promotion rates and their manager outside of work. Yet employees who do that are more likely to be happy with their job—and a stronger desire to stay with more likely to expect to stay at their company. a company. WOMEN OF COLOR LESBIAN WOMEN Women of color generally receive less support from Lesbian women receive about the same level of managers than white women—and Black women receive manager support as women overall with one important the least support. exception: they get far less help balancing work and 7 Black women are far less likely to get help navigating personal demands. organizational politics and balancing work and personal Similar to women overall, slightly less than half of 8 lives, and managers are less likely to promote their lesbian women socialize with their manager. accomplishments. The same dynamic holds true for access to managers: only about a third of Black women socialize with their manager outside of work, compared to about half of white women. 7 “Lesbian women” includes all women who identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or homosexual in the survey. 8 This year’s survey asked bisexual and lesbian women about their experiences. The results for bisexual women and lesbian women of color are not included in the report due to small sample size and a desire for more information than we were able to obtain this year.