{"product_id":"the-broken-rung-kweilin-ellingrud-9781647827182","title":"The Broken Rung: When the Career Ladder Breaks for Women--And How They Can Succeed in Spite of It","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe broken rung: a phenomenon even more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success. This book explains it and gives you strategies for how to overcome it and fulfill your potential.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men do and have higher average GPAs. But then a strange thing happens: Upon entering the workforce, they immediately lose their advantage. When the first promotions come around, the slide continues--for every 100 men who are promoted to manager, only 87 women and 73 women of color get promoted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is what McKinsey senior partners Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and Mar?a del Mar Mart?nez call \"the broken rung,\" and its effects compound throughout women's careers, causing women to fall behind at the start and keeping them from catching up. In this groundbreaking book, the authors reveal the problem's underlying cause: while about half of a person's lifetime earnings come from education and half from experience, men get more value from their experience than women do. As the authors show, it is also here, in one's experience, that the solution lies: How can women build their \"experience capital\" to level the playing field and maximize their earning potential?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on over a decade of research, conversations with more than 50 remarkable leaders, and their own experiences as senior partners and as the first three consecutive chief diversity and inclusion officers for McKinsey, the authors weave data on the potential pitfalls across a career with inspiring and instructive stories of women who have climbed over the broken rung by using strategies that increased their experience capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaders and companies must do more to address structural gender inequalities in the workplace--but you don't have to wait. \u003ci\u003eThe Broken Rung\u003c\/i\u003e is your guide, right now, for moving up the corporate ladder and reaching your full potential at work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, Maria del Mar Martinez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647827183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647827182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard Business Review Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Kweilin Ellingrud","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46420693156095,"sku":"9781647827182","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e983ed2-2e50-4c82-b7bd-ca843cc10004.jpg?v=1734635388","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-broken-rung-kweilin-ellingrud-9781647827182","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}