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nvinced, is that women are dropping out. Now people talk about this a lot, and they talk about things like flextime and mentoring and programs panies should have to train women. I want to talk about none of that today, even though that39。ve been here about a year. And I said, Are you telling me that I am the only woman to have pitched a deal in this office in a year? And he looked at me, and he said, Yeah. Or maybe you39。s room is in his office. So I start looking around for moving boxes, figuring they just moved in, but I don39。s about a threehour meeting — and two hours in, there needs to be that bio break, and everyone stands up, and the partner running the meeting starts looking really embarrassed. And I realized he doesn39。s a real problem. And the problem is this: Women are not making it to the top of any professionanywhere in the world. The numbers tell the story quite clearly. 190 heads of state — nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13 percent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top, Clevel jobs, board seats — tops out at 15, 16 percent. The numbers have not moved since 2024a