Kellie Fitzgerald , managing director of retail at Google , took to the stage at the WWD x FN x Beauty Inc Women in Power forum on Sept. 8 to address a quandary: Why do so many women feel stuck right now? One big reason: the frenetic pace of change.

“Women make up 43 percent of the global work force and hold merely 31 percent of the leadership positions,” Fitzgerald shared. “This disparity isn’t new, but the rate of change is.”

While there was was a steady increase of women occupying leadership roles from 2015-2022, Fitzgerald explained that the share of women in such positions increased less than half a percent in the last two years.

Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is rapidly shifting and becoming more prevalent. To emphasize how quickly it’s being integrated into our lives,

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