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The 2026 Top Women Report: what actually moved

The headline numbers get quoted; the shifts that matter sit a layer down.

The 2026 Top Women Report: what actually moved

Every year the Top Women Report lands with a set of quotable figures. The more useful read is the movement between categories — where women-led firms gained share, and where representation stalled once you strip out a handful of large employers.

Read the distribution, not the average

Averages hide concentration. This year's data rewards anyone who looks at the spread: sectors with broad, shallow progress behave very differently from those carried by one or two outliers.

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