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If you're looking for a long read this weekend, we highly recommend this opinion article by Susan Chira. It's a great start to understanding why so few women rise to the top, but there's a fundamental piece that's missing. While the problematic "boys club" mentality is certainly to blame, it's not everything—and removing bias will not automatically solve a company's gender diversity issues. The truth is that 30% of talented women leave the workforce (or opt-down into non-leadership roles) because they do not have access to the flexibility they need to pursue both career and care. The 10-hour butt-in-chair structure of work is inherently incompatible with the lives of modern women (and modern society more generally), and while technology has facilitated the ability to work whenever, wherever, a higher value is still placed on face time—even if the output is lower. We've all been there—those days where you stay late as a show of loyalty simply because your boss hasn't left yet, even though your brain is fried, you're not getting anything done, and you're missing an important doctor's appointment. Ring any bells? That's exactly what we are working to fix, and we wholeheartedly believe that more women would stay in the workforce and advance to positions of leadership if they had the flexibility they need to thrive. Flexibility isn't just the future of feminism, it's the future of work.

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