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Bhatak: Women and POC are far more likely to quit in year one

Munir Bhatak · #53 Investors Get Feisty at Our Philly Pitch-off · Mar 3, 2025 · at 16:48

Munir Bhatak, founder and CEO of Swirl, explains workplace retention disparities to investor Phil Nadel during a live pitch competition.

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“For example, women are two times more likely to leave their job in the first year than men. People of color are three and a half times more likely to leave their job within the first year than their white counterparts, and so...”

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The claim, plainly

Women are two times more likely to leave their job in the first year than men, and people of color are three and a half times more likely to leave within the first year than their white counterparts.

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Assessment

Empirical workplace retention and labor statistics contradict both assertions in the claim. First, data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and comprehensive corporate cohort studies (such as the McKinsey/LeanIn.org 'Women in the Workplace' annual reports) show that general first-year and entry-level attrition rates between men and women are broadly comparable, with differences measured in small percentage margins rather than a 2x multiple. Second, empirical academic and industry analyses—including a 2024 cohort study by Linos, Mobasseri, & Roussille of over 9,000 corporate new hires and BLS tenure data across racial demographics—indicate that while turnover disparities exist for non-white employees (ranging from 18% to 51% higher relative risk depending on subcategory), they do not approach a 3.5x (250% higher) multiplier compared to white counterparts.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employee Tenure reports (2024) show median tenure and short-tenure separation rates differ across gender and racial groups by narrow percentage margins rather than multiples of 2x or 3.5x.
McKinsey & Company / LeanIn.org 'Women in the Workplace' reports (2022–2024) find entry-level and aggregate attrition between men and women to be largely parity-level across broad cohorts.
A December 2024 Harvard/Management Science cohort study of 9,037 professional services new hires found a 32% higher relative turnover risk for Black employees (and a maximum 51% increase for Black women relative to white women), well below a 3.5x rate.

Checked against

[1] bls.gov [2] bls.gov [3] cowenpartners.com [4] mckinsey.com [5] leanin.org [6] facebook.com [7] ocbigs.org [8] pulsely.io

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