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 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…
There have been times in 2017 when it has felt like women were under attack. But this list proves that women always fight back. Read more in Fast Company The Top 11 Innovations That Made Women’s Lives Better In 2017…
The World Economic Forum recently ranked Bangladesh first in gender equality among South Asia nations for the second consecutive year. Under South Asia’s only female prime minister, the country is investing heavily in its women and girls. Read more in…
Why does this under-representation of women matter? Research shows that diverse teams perform better. Individuals from different genders, races, backgrounds and experiences bring different perspectives that can lead to innovative solutions. Read more in weforum Why we need more women…
