The Other Ledger
Women. Work.
The full accounting.
The Other Ledger explores the intersection of women, work, and organizational systems to challenge assumptions, spark conversations, and translate insight into meaningful change.
What gets measured?
What gets missed?
What matters?
The numbers can tell us a lot. But they rarely tell us everything.
Equal Entry.
Unequal Representation.
Women represented 49% of entry-level employees and 29% of C-suite roles at participating companies in 2025.
Same Workforce.
Different Stress.
51% of working women in the U.S. said they felt stressed a lot the previous day, compared with 39% of working men.
Shared Parenthood.
Unequal Expectations.
64% of working women with children and 22% of working men with children strongly agreed they were expected to handle unexpected childcare issues.
School Ends.
Work Doesn’t.
In 2017–18, U.S. public primary schools averaged about 179 school days. A modeled 52-week, five-day work year has 260 weekdays before holidays or leave.
The modeled difference between the school and work calendars.
OUR PURPOSE
To evolve the systems that shape work so more people can thrive.
The Other Side of the Ledger
Our lives have evolved. The systems shaping work haven’t always kept pace.
The workforce has changed. Families have changed. Technology has changed. The world has changed.
Yet much of the way we organize work still reflects expectations shaped in a different era, when the workforce looked different, responsibilities outside work were distributed differently, and where and how people could work were far more limited.
Fixed schedules. Physical presence. Traditional career paths. Long-held ideas about what commitment, productivity, and success should look like.
We’ve seen that work can look different. But the question isn’t simply whether we can work differently. It’s whether the way we work today still makes sense for the lives we lead.
The Other Ledger examines women’s experiences to challenge long-held assumptions, bring overlooked realities into focus, and explore what work could become.
Go deeper.
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About The Other Ledger
Why we’re asking these questions and what we hope to change.
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The Exit Interviews
Our first research initiative explores why women leave corporate employment, what happens next, and what their experiences can tell us about work.