NetApp : Bridging the Gap for All Women to Dare to Dream
September 29, 2021 at 07:32 am EDT
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As the global pandemic has altered the workplace as we know it, we're seeing disproportionate negative effects on women. This is true especially of mothers and women of color. For underrepresented groups, challenges to career progression can feel daunting, particularly when not starting from a place of equity compared with their colleagues.
According to a McKinsey & Company Report, Women in the Workplace 2020, the pandemic has intensified challenges that women had already faced pre-pandemic. Where even two years ago, the movement toward gender parity in corporate America, although slow, was heading in the right direction, we're now seeing that:
One in four women is contemplating downshiftingtheir careers or leaving the workforce altogether
Women, particularly those of color, are more likely to have been laid off or furloughed during the COVID-19 crisis, stalling their careers and jeopardizing their financial security
Women are 1.5 times more likely to spend an extra 3+ hours a day on housework and childcare (equivalent to 20 hours a week)
"Working mothers have always worked a 'double shift' - a full day of work, followed by hours spent caring for children and doing household labor. Now the supports that made this possible - including school and childcare - have been upended."-Women in the Workplace 2020
Black women face even greater challenges compared with their peers from other ethnicities and races, with reduced opportunities for promotion and career advancement, and notable degrees of underrepresentation at higher levels
Bottom line? Women's professional progress has taken a blow, exacerbated by the pandemic, and the financial, mental and emotional toll is high.
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NetApp, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of equipment for managing and storing network data. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- product sales (52%): file, cache and storage servers, data management, content distribution and information synthesis softwares;
- support services (37.1%): consulting, maintenance, technical assistance and training services;
- cloud services (6.3%): cloud storage and data management services;
- professional services (4.6%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Americas (54.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (31.3%) and Asia/Pacific (13.9%).