Like many other professions, sales roles have long been the domain of men who have used their role as a stepping stone for many to launch a successful career as a business leader.
Despite efforts to improve equity between men and women in the workplace, women still earn considerably less than their male colleagues and remain under-represented at the management level. Here are five ways to strengthen the cause of workplace equality.
Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Scott have donated US$10 million to each of the four winners of the Equality Can't Wait Challenge, organisations that work to advance the influence of women in the US.