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According to a report, Asia's women face more barriers than those in the West in penetrating the top ranks of corporate management, contributing to a shortage of talent that [threat] to suppress the region's economic [grow] . There's a much stronger barrier in terms of the [believe] that women have to stay home to take care of their families. Most women, who reached the middle and senior levels of management and left their jobs [willing] , did so due to family [commit] . The survey by McKinsey & Co. suggests that increasing the number of women in high-level positions can improve companies' financial performance and countries' economic
expansion. "Women tend to be stronger in terms of collaboration and people development , while men tend to be stronger in individual decision [make] ," says Wang Jin, a principal at McKinsey. But how [fast] Asia's women can climb the corporate ladder depends on when societies change their way of thinking.
