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The worst countries in the world to be a woman? Places torn apart by war, or societies stifled by centuries of male patriarchy, a recent survey by the Thomson Reuters Foundation shows Read more in Big Think  U.S. in Top…

Four years ago, Hannah Olson, an ambitious Boston University sophomore, was officially diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease. She required regular antibiotic infusions via a catheter in her arm, as well as some 28 pills per day. Read morte in Fast…

If you have a big idea that you’re passionate about, don’t let it percolate for too long. “The longer you wait to put something into action, the longer you’re giving yourself time to talk yourself out of it,” Read more…

Key moments from World Economic Forum Annual Meeting related to the top 5 insights for the future of work Read more in Weforum  Future of work: 5 top insights from Davos experts By Poppie Mphuthing was last modified: March 18th,…

Adding more women to the digital workforce will do more than just fill a growing need for talent. BCG research has shown that there are real benefits—both operational and financial—to creating more gender-balanced workforces and leadership teams. Read more in…

The solidarity that the Icelandic women’s movement built in the 1970s and the 1980s laid the foundation for welfare policies that have liberated women in the country in many ways. Children were surrounded by role models, where women took up…

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…