Earlier this year we asked members of the Informed Public how the nationwide labor shortage had affected them, and found that 45% of the Employed Informed Public say they feel more empowered to ask for something they want in their own work situation as a result of that labor shortage. However, that same data also revealed an “empowerment gap” between men and women in the workforce: while 50% of working men in our survey report feeling more empowered to ask for something they want in their own work situation as a result of the ongoing nationwide labor shortage, only 38% of working women say the same. This empowerment gap now adds yet another example to the list of disparities between working men and women with which corporate America must wrestle – the gender pay gap, the significant reduction in women’s workforce participation during the pandemic, and the lack of women in the c-suite – to name just a few.