lower ranks

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Women are gaining ground in the C-suite, but progress in lower ranks of management is stalling.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

While the parties agreed last year to unify the top command structure, they have not been able to reach a similar agreement for the lower ranks.

From Washington Times • May 5, 2023

This ethnically mixed population dominated urban areas, often working as shoemakers, tailors, and other types of artisans; some mestizo and pardo men served in the lower ranks of the colonial militias.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Goldman has made some diversity progress among the lower ranks.

From Reuters • May 13, 2022

In the lower ranks of society men married younger—they had no false aims to prevent them: that implied earlier engagements.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various