Women are often targeted simply because they are women. Attacks are often sexualized or misogynistic, and rhetoric tends to focus on their bodies and sexual violence. This is both physically and emotionally damaging, and women are often intimidated into silence,…
According to a 2016 McKinsey report, Women in the Workplace, white men make up 36% of entry-level corporate jobs, and white women make up 31%. But at the very first rung above that, those numbers change to 47% for white…
According to our research, when women business owners pitch their ideas to investors for early-stage capital, they receive significantly less—a disparity that averages more than $1 million—than men. Yet businesses founded by women ultimately deliver higher revenue—more than twice as…
In 2011, Sonia Vallabh was handed a genetic report that contained a death sentence. But it also held a map for how to escape.Her body, she learned, harbored a gene mutation, a single wrong letter of DNA in her “prion”…
In Canada, women working full-time still earn, on average, 74 cents for every dollar a man makes, and this country’s wage gap remains well above the average for Organization for Economic Development and Co-operation member countries. Every six days in…
The number of women at work across the Muslim world is swelling. Across the 30 largest emerging-market Muslim countries, 100 million women were working in 2002. Today, that number is 155 million. Economic necessity, more education, new technologies and changing…
Fashion brand Paisley has launched FEM, a female-only currency that counteracts the 21% wage gap between men and women in Germany. To give women as much spending power as men, the currency is worth 21% more than the Euro. Read…
As innovation in mobile changes how society operates, women are using their phones to assist them in practically every aspect of their lives, from consuming news to budgeting to waking up in the morning. Almost half of women ages 18…
Thanks to new studies coming out of neuroscience, we now know that there are no “biological” differences between male and female brains. Girls and boys now take math, science, and computer classes in equal numbers in secondary school. Read more…
Why are there so many women engaged in the learning & development and human resources? These two areas are the cornerstones that make any organization stronger and more competitive because they focus on the most important resource – people. Read…
