The document discusses challenges faced by women in revenue roles and what companies can do to attract and retain them. It notes that women make up over half of college graduates but face challenges like lack of work-life balance and equal opportunities. Research shows that women are often better leaders than men in areas like driving results and developing others. However, women in sales roles still experience pay gaps compared to men despite equal or higher performance. The document recommends actions for companies like offering flexible work, paid parental leave, mentorship programs, and addressing unconscious bias.
6. The Talent Pool is Increasingly Female
Source: CEB (Gartner) analysis
Women Already Make Up More Than Half of All College Graduates in the United States
Percentage of Graduates by Gender
57%
Bachelor
s
60%
Masters
51%
PhDs
Women Men
7. Women Ranked Better Leaders
Women Are More Effective Across the Board According to Their Peers, Direct Reports, and
Managers
Leadership Effectiveness by Gender
Top Management,
Executive, Senior Team
Member
Supervisor, Frontline
Manager, Foreman
67.7%
57.7%
Manager
56.2%
48.9%
Middle Manager
52.7%
49.9%
52.6%
52.5%
Individual
Contributor
53.9%
52.7%
Other
52.0%
50/7%
Source: Zenger/Folkman 2011 as seen in HBR "Are Women Better Leaders Than Men" 2012
Women Men Total
55.1%
51.3%
8. Leadership Ranking in Revenue Roles
Femal
e
52.4
Source: Zenger/Folkman 2011 as seen in HBR "Are Women Better Leaders Than Men" 2012.
Overall Leadership Effectiveness by Gender by Function (Percentile Scores)
Sales
Male
55.9
MarketingMale
45.7
Femal
e
62.6
9. Where Women Rank the Highest
• Takes Initiative
• Practices Self-Development
• Displays High Integrity and Honesty
• Drives for Results
• Develops Others
• Inspires and Motivates Others
• Builds Relationships
Source: Zenger/Folkman 2011 as seen in HBR "Are Women Better Leaders Than Men" 2012.
11. Top Challenges
What are your top challenges as a woman in revenue?
#1 #2 #3
Work/life
balance
Lack of
mentorship
Equal seat of the
table
Source: Women in Revenue Survey, Nov 2018
13. Why Companies Should Care
Source: How to Drive Gender Parity in the Workplace, Fairygodboss.
Image courtesy of Bloomberg, Gender Equality Index (GEI)
Representation Drivers Culture Drivers
Women on corporate boards Employee resource groups for women
Women in the top 10% compensation group Paid parental leave
Women in revenue-producing roles Unconscious bias training
Multicultural women in the workforce Formal employee development programs
Key Attributes of Over-Performing Companies in the Bloomberg GEI
14. What Women in Revenue Want
• Flexible work hours
• Top healthcare
• Work from home
• Training programs
• Mentors and sponsors
Source: Women in Revenue Survey, Nov 2018
16. Women Sales Leaders Aren’t
Adequately Rewarded
On Average, Despite Having Equal or Even Higher Quota Attainment,
Women Are Paid Less Across Both Base Pay and Variable Compensation
Average Quota
Attainment
Comparison by Average
Commission Rate
Average Total Variable
Pay and Base Pay
67% 70% 4.8%
4.1%
$151,696
$126,395
Men Women Men Women Men Women
Source: “With Big Data Comes Big Opportunity: Ensure Against Gender Pay Gaps,”
Xactly Corporation, 24 October 2014; CEB analysis
17. CMO’s Have a Pay Gap, Too
Women marketing leaders experience
a 10% pay gap, 10-19 years into their
careers. Then catch up after 20 years.
Source: Payscale
Women Men
18. Your Call to Action
• Network
• Sponsor/Mentor
• Speak up for each other
• Push companies to do what matters
• Know your worth
19. Join Us
● Become a member
● Be a mentor or mentee
● Next in-person networking event
Thurs. 4/25 in SF - save the date!
www.WomeninRevenue.org
21. Women in Revenue Mission:
Empowering Women Leaders
in Sales & Marketing
22. How to Evaluate
a New Employer
Source: Fast Company, November 2018; Image courtesy of Wharton Social Impact Initiative
23. Advice to Younger Leaders
• Build your confidence and speak up
• Build and nurture your network
• Understand money
o Compensation (salary, bonus, equity)
o Key measures of how your role contributes
• Find a mentor
Source: Women in Revenue Survey, Nov 2018
24. Mentors Advise, Sponsors Advocate
Source: Center for Talent Innovation
Mentors
• Mentors have mentees
• Mentors suggest how to expand your
network
• Mentors provide feedback to aid in personal
and professional growth
• Mentors suggest ways to increase visibility
Sponsors
• Sponsors have proteges
• Sponsors provide network
connections
• Sponsors are personally vested in
your upward mobility
• Sponsors champion your visibility
& use their own reputation to
provide exposure
25. B2B Gender Pay Comparison
Some two-thirds of the women
polled in this study said they would
be prepared to leave their role if
their employer’s gender pay gap
was exposed to be higher than the
national average.
Source: B2B Marketing US Salary Survey 2019
$107,798
$131,442
$97,340
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Notes de l'éditeur
Here is what you can expect to learn today as we unveil our first research
As part of discussing the survey results to you today, your also going to hear from our panel of expert speakers today: Laura, Amanda and Nate some of their experiences and also what top companies are doing to retain and attract top revenue leaders. We also have an e-book that we are launching with more in depth survey data. You will receive this as follow up along with today’s webinar recording.
question - should we move the “who responded” to the very back of this deck (like we do in the ebook) or quickly go through it at the beginning? I’m inclined to include it - in other surveys people are always wanting to know who is behind the data so I think we should knock that out. or just include slide 7 (levels/roles) and not the rest? (speak to it only?)
Notes for voiceover:
73% of respondents started their career in the revenue domain
Nearly ⅔ surveyed were in B2B Saas technology companies, 16.5% in business services and the rest other
Role
% of total responses
Sales Leader
C-Level, VP, SVP
8.7%
Marketing Leader
C-Level, VP, SVP
24.3%
Sales Professional
Director, Manager
29.1%
Marketing Professional
Director, Manager, Associate
25.2%
Other Revenue Position
CSM, C-Level
12.6%
HBR wrote a piece called “Are Women Better Leaders than Men” in 2012;
This data is based on 7,280 leaders who had their effectiveness evaluated on an Extraordinary Leader 360 survey. These leaders weren’t random -- they were from the highest-performing companies, those that invest in their leadership team. Women clearly exceeded men in the top leadership positions.
In the same study, women and men were rank on leadership competencies of top leaders -- an equal number of men and women evaluated each other.
We’d expect women to be good at leadership skills that involve others -- developing and motivating others, building relationship. But many people would say that “taking initiative and driving for results” are things we’d expect men to be better at. Panel discussion.
Notice that work/life balance and lack of mentorship rank in the top for both of these questions. I’m going to ask the panel - does this surprise you?
#1 Work/life balance - 47.5% of total respondents (49/103))
#2 Lack of mentorship - 40.7% of total respondents (42/103)
#3 Equal seat of the table - 34%
on a slide like this where the source is really long I think we should remove the hashtag
Companies with Women-Friendly Policies Outperform Others in Stock Price
voiceover - explain Bloomberg GEI
Some two-thirds of the women polled in this study said they would be prepared to leave their role if their employer’s gender pay gap was exposed to be higher than the national average.
make call to action - visit www.womeninrevenue.org; sign up for mentor program; if in SF 4/25, join us at our networking event.
members get a 48 hour head start on registration for event.
I’d like to introduce you to Women in Revenue, a new organization focused on empowering sales and marketing leaders.
Today were going to share with you some fresh, new research based upon what more than 100 top sales and marketing leaders reported in a recent survey. Part of our mission is to provide businesses with insights on what women seek in their roles and also to empower and inspire women with advice from their peers
remove hashtag
LAURA-- talk about RESEARCH BEST PRACTICES here -- looking at Glassdoor, Crunchbase, keep biases in mind. Look at many sources. what makes this hard -- qualitative, intuitive. ask people in my network who might have experience, and who don’t have a horse in the race. what does the company say, glassdoor, L-in connections, get neutral third-party view. how do you handle gut feel? double-down on the research. trust your gut, dispute or refute your gut feeling. developing that antenna/radar is something that you must foster. rely on people with more experience/sounding board. great place to use an advisor. be brave enough to bring up those EQ moments to logically assess.
When we asked our survey respondents for their advice to their younger selves, we saw an overwhelming response around the idea of speaking up: confidence, taking risks, speaking up and not being afraid.
Nate to talk about compensation fairness and understanding your worth, where to get more information (Payscale, Glassdoor, industry salary studies).
Laura -- find a mentor (talks to her daughter about, new college grad). Consider larger companies -- sponsorship, the person who will take you along in their career.
Amanda to speak to this
Here we can ask the question “what can men do?”
next let’s turn this over to Nate to talk about his employer, salesforce, and the ground-breaking work they’ve done on equal pay
we can use this slide unless Nate has a formal one
add source
round up all percentages vs decimal points
add source
round up all percentages vs decimal points
Bar chart -- Base salary
<110K - 17%
110-150K - 28%
150-200K - 20%
200-250K - 18%
>250K - 17%
Not including commission or bonus