53 | WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE: A ROAD MAP TO GENDER EQUALITY A CLOSER LOOK Making work work for women in leadership Senior-level women often have more household responsibilities than senior- level men. They are twice as likely as men at their level to have a partner who works full-time, which means they are far less likely to have someone at home focused primarily on the household and the kids. And when women in leadership have partners, they are five times more likely than men in the same situation to do all or most of the household work. So perhaps not surprisingly, among senior-level employees who don’t want to be top executives, 42 percent of women say it’s because it would require too much of their families, compared to 35 percent of men.