As women, our biggest hurdle to professional success isn’t a glass ceiling; it’s a broken rung — that first step of being promoted from entry-level roles to managers. Passing that first rung on the ladder happens less often and at a slower pace for women, which is a systemic barrier to entry we need to fix.

You may have heard the term leave your comfort zone, which became a buzzy life coach phrase in the ’90s. The idea was that a person’s ‘comfort zone’ (low-risk daily routines) caused individual progress to level out.