Men: The unrecognised minority
Women in leadership is not a diversity issue.
It's wrong to equate it with racial, religious, sexual orientation, disability or other common bases of diversity, no matter how important they also are.
Women are the only group in society that while under-represented in leadership ranks, are also in the majority in society. That's right people, women make up 50.5% of the worlds population, men are 49.5% meaning men are a minority group:
Women in leadership isn't a diversity issue, its a power issue.
By any standard, men are the most powerful demographic group on the planet.
They are Heads of State in 85% of nations (https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/facts-and-figures/facts-and-figures-womens-leadership-and-political-participation?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
They hold 73% of seats in Parliaments globally (https://www.ipu.org/resources/publications/reports/2025-03/women-in-parliament-1995-2025?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
Hold 66% of Senior Management positions globally (https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2025/digest/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
Own 66% of the worlds wealth (https://institute.bankofamerica.com/content/dam/transformation/rising-wealth-of-women.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com )
So lets call it what it is, not a gender gap or an equality gap or even a human rights gap, its a power gap. Here’s something else to ponder. In 5,000 years of recorded human history, how many times has one group who possessed power, voluntarily ceded that power to another group who did not have power, without a struggle?
This may be harder than we think.