Each year, on March 8, we come together as a global community to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. International Women's Day serves not only as a day of recognition and celebration, but also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Because the reality is that progress on gender diversity at work has stalled. Consider this: For every 100 men promoted to a manager role, 79 women are promoted. The gap in promotion rates to manager is even greater for women of color: for every 100 men promoted to manager, only 60 black women are promoted. Only about 1 in 5 C-suite leaders is a woman, and only 1 in 25 is a woman of color. 55% percent of women in senior leadership, 48% of lesbian women, and 45% of women in technical fields report they’ve been sexually harassed. Only about half of.