July 13, 2023 - Jennifer Siebenthaler and Susan Zhu, w-Elly Piatt (Women in Business) [ENCORE]

LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 13, 2023) – THIS IS AN ENCORE EPISODE

According to the National Women’s Business Council annual report, 42% of all U.S. businesses are owned by women, and in 2019 those businesses employed over 9.4 million workers.

However, based on the annual Women in the Workplace study by LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Company, “women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rate we’ve ever seen…[which could] have serious implications for companies” that are already facing underrepresentation in those roles.

Dr. Jennifer Siebenthaler is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Senior Lecturer in the Von Allmen School of Accountancy in the UK Gatton College of Business and Economics. Dr. Siebenthaler’s background as a CPA has led her to work as an auditor specializing in healthcare and other nonprofit entities, and to consulting various businesses before transitioning to education.

Dr. Susan Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Management in the UK Gatton College and a Research Fellow at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Dr. Zhu’s research interests include workplace decision-making, recruitment and staffing, and leadership. Her research focuses on understanding how employees at work make judgments and decisions, and how these judgments and decisions impact individual, team, and Human Resources (HR) functioning.

On this episode of ‘Behind the Blue’ UK Senior Elly Piatt, an Economics major from Villa Hills, Ky, sits down with these two members of the Gatton College of Business and Economics to discuss the challenges facing women in business today, the support systems in place to help women thrive, and advice they would give to students as they pursue their careers in this ever-changing field.

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