Roadblocks to Career Advancement

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The Roadblocks to Career Advancement

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What does the career landscape look like today for women?

Citi and LinkedIn’s second annual Today’s Professional

Women Report explores women’s biggest roadblocks

to career satisfaction and success.

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Women’s reluctance to ask for a raise may be keeping them from getting what they want.


Only 1 in 4 professional women have asked for a raise in the past year. Yet 75% of those who asked received a salary increase, and half received equal or more than they expected.


Lack of opportunity, time and loyalty hold women back.

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Only 38% of professional women plan to rise to a more senior leadership position in their companies, citing lack of opportunities and reluctance to take time away from their personal lives as two of the top reasons.


Working from home impacts women’s perception of their

“promotability”: 26% of women who telecommute think they’ll get

promoted, in comparison to 40% who work in the office full time.


Women’s three biggest work frustrations:

Not getting paid enough, office politics and being underutilized.


Women breadwinners are not immune to the gender wage gap.


Female breadwinners make less money than their male counterparts. When a woman is the breadwinner in her household, she makes an average of $35,000 more than her partner.


Continue the conversation.The 2013 Today’s Professional Woman Report survey was conducted by LinkedIn among a nationally representative sample of 954 Professional Women LinkedIn members.

The survey was inspired by Connect: Professional Women’s Network, Powered by Citi, an online community on LinkedIn that helps women achieve the careers they want and discuss the issues relevant to their success.

Visit linkedin.com/womenconnect to learn more about Connect and to join the group!

For more information about Today’s Professional Woman Report, contact:Jennifer Kohanim of FleishmanHillard: [email protected] Catherine McManus of Citi: [email protected] Fenot Tekle of LinkedIn: [email protected]






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