It’s a strange kind of “progress” when a company like VF, home to brands that market empowerment, exploration, and modern values quietly reshapes their leadership team into something that looks like a throwback out of a 1990 golf tournament brochure - a lineup of men with the same haircuts, same resumes, and same golf handicap index. Not a woman in sight unless she’s HR or planning the holiday party. TNF is a brand built on pushing boundaries, and yet we find ourselves cycling out female leaders only to rapidly replace them with the most like-minded male candidate within reach. It’s starting to feel less like strategic evolution and more like regression dressed up in corporate lingo. At a certain point, you have to ask.. is this about “best person for the job,” or is it about comfort, familiarity, and an old boys’ network reasserting itself under the radar? Because when diversity disappears at the top, it doesn’t just change optics, it’s a narrowing of perspective at the exact level where our strategy gets shaped. And most importantly, the same leaders making these decisions have daughters that will someday look for examples of women in leadership - and how disheartening it will be when they realize they can’t find any here.
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@5rx I heard it’s merit conversations.
@5mz Layoffs is what I heard
A lot of closed door HR meetings this month. What do we think is going on?
Yes, yes, and yes.
And the fact that this is still happening in 2026? Wild—and honestly, deeply upsetting.
Same old narcissistic patriarchy at the top, making sure their accounts stay full…
while the second row is actually doing the work.
And somewhere in that second line—if you’re lucky—you might even find a few women holding it all together…