We cannot afford to backslide on the progress we have made on hiring, promoting, and retaining women at the highest levels in our workforce. That’s one of the reasons why tracking numbers around diversity is so important. Canada will always lead by example. After all, diversity is our strength. But to ensure the advancement of diverse women in positions of senior corporate leadership, we all need to work together.

Jay Rosenzweig, the inspiring Chair of our Raoul Wallenberg Centre For Human Rights Board, has issued yet again his report on women in leadership, as a call to action to do more to achieve gender equity in the boardrooms of our nation and beyond. His work empowers women and puts them at the forefront not only in corporate boards, but in all walks of life, be it...

When there are barriers placed in the way of individual’s reaching their full human potential, it is not only frustrating for them, it also lessens us all. In that regard, The Rosenzweig Report serves as a powerful reminder that more needs to be done to provide women with opportunities to find fulfillment in their chosen pursuits.

We need more than women in positions of power. We need women there who are clear about the purpose of power: not just to bolster structures that already exist, but to disrupt and repair them in order to serve humanity most deeply. It’s not just about women – it’s also about children, about men, about animals, about the planet. If women are evolving, it’s for a much greater purpose than mere pay equity. It’s so we can rise up and recreate the world.