In the fall of 2021, a national survey reported that one in three women had considered leaving the workforce or cutting back on their careers, a data point that Kimberly Kane found disturbing. To see what Wisconsin working women were thinking, Kane’s consulting firm commissioned a survey of their own and the results were stunning.
Wisconsin women not only followed the national trend — they exceeded it with half of the women surveyed who hadn’t already quit saying they had seriously considered leaving their current jobs.
“I think it’s a wake-up call for employers,” Kane says of the findings. “They need to recognize that there are issues at their places of work when it comes to the engagement of working women. And they need to dig in and find out exactly what those issues are.”
Kane, a former broadcast journalist and the founder and CEO of Kane Communications Group calls this a wake-up call to employers stating “They need to recognize that there are issues at their places of work when it comes to the engagement of working women. And they need to dig in and find out exactly what those issues are.”
A point that came as no surprise for Christina Thor, Wisconsin director for 9to5, National Organization of Working Women, who is Asian American.
“Right now the current trend and buzz word is ‘DEI’ — diversity, equity and inclusion,” Thor says. “So many companies and employers are adopting that into their [workplace strategies].”
Action doesn’t necessarily follow the talk, however, she says: “If DEI were recognized, working women would not be facing these challenges.”
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