In Dialogue: Wendy Mann, CEO Of CREW Network, On Helping Women Advance In Commercial Real Estate

One of the cornerstones of this column is the idea that women open more doors to success when we work with and support other women. This has been borne out time and time again, and the pandemic has only heightened the importance of that fact. Statistically, women are more likely than men to hire women; statistically, women are more likely to be promoted by women managers than their male counterparts; statistically, women step away from their careers permanently far less often when it’s a woman-owned business. Now, there are loads and loads of reasons for all that, but at the root, it comes down to conscious and unconscious sex-based biases still pervading the professional world (e.g., that women are best suited to care for children, or are not sufficiently committed to their jobs if they have them, and so on and on and on).