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Companies offer ERGs because it’s what they’ve been told will help women advance. But for many women, these efforts feel surface-level – well-intended, but lacking the structure, resources, and influence needed to create real leadership opportunities.

Atop an 86-foot dam in central North Carolina, Duke Energy’s Becky Rollins looks out over the Pee Dee River. It’s beautiful, she said, motioning below. The floodgates at Tillery Hydroelectric Plant, in service since 1928, are being refurbished. Rollins is there to see how the project is going.

Earlier in June, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte A. Burrows issued a report titled, “Building For The Future: Advancing Equal Employment Opportunity in the Construction Industry.” It provides findings and next steps based on the agency’s enforcement experience, witness testimony presented at the EEOC’s May 2021 hearing on discrimination and harassment in …