Comment / The US Line: Cracking the gender imbalance

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There are 24 speakers at this Supply Chain conference and only one woman. This is a conference that found room for Ryan Petersen from Flexport but only one woman. And while women make up 41% of the supply chain workforce, according to a Gartner survey, only 15% of executives are women. Is this 1924 or 2024? Why are 85% of supply chain executives men?

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