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RS383 Why Women Are Leaving Corporate - and What They're Building Instead

The conversation around women leaving corporate careers has reached a tipping point - and the numbers back it up. This International Women's Day episode unpacks the real structural reasons behind the exodus, why it isn't an ambition gap, and what women are quietly building on the other side. • The data is clear: women aren't opting out of ambition - they're opting out of a system that consistently extracts more than it gives back, with caregiving pressures, lack of flexibility, and burnout all cited as primary drivers. • Lower interest in promotion, as McKinsey's 2025 report flagged, is a rational response to structurally unfair conditions - not evidence of an ambition gap. • Women are quietly building - founding businesses at record rates, designing portfolio careers, and creating models that give them genuine agency over time, income, and energy. • Leaving corporate is only step one. The real work is building differently - not recreating the same overwork, undercharging, and boundaryless patterns in your own business. • For those still inside organisations, the question isn't how to get women to lean back in - it's what leadership teams are genuinely willing to redesign. If you're at the beginning of this journey, Anna's book Leaving the Corporate 9 to 5 - available on Amazon - is a brilliant starting point. And if you're already building independently and want to do it with more intention, keep an eye out for something new coming very soon.