Closing China’s gender gap, Davos co-chairs will all be women and other top gender stories of the week
World leaders to meet under all-female co-chair team at Davos 2018. (Reuters)
Education: BA in Economics, Smith College; MPhil in International Economics, Graduate Institute Geneva; MPA, Harvard University. Current role: Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, heading the Centre for the New Economy and Society and the Global Communications Group. Co-Author: Future of Growth, Future of Jobs, Global Risks and Gender Gap. Author: Fifty Million Rising (2018). Awards: BBC 100 Women (2013 and 2014); Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize (2014); longlisted for FT/Mckinsey Business Book of the Year (2018). Interests: economics, future of work, education and skills, gender, income inequality and technology.
World leaders to meet under all-female co-chair team at Davos 2018. (Reuters)
1. The global gender gap has widened for the first time since the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006, bringing to an end a decade of slow but stea...
UK’s Prime Minister urges sexual harassment victims to come forward. (Bloomberg)
World’s largest cities ranked on gender equality. (Next City)
Black women march against racial injustice. (Washington Post)Starbucks, Google assailed by investors over gender policies. (Bloomberg)More mothers working in England than two decades ago:...
Currently, the world has developed only 62% of its human capital as measured by the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Human Capital Index.
U.S. astronaut, Peggy Whitson’s record breaking career. (NPR)
Women charge past men in US job market. (Bloomberg) Cognitive skills are better in women in gender-equal countries. (The Conversation)To close pay gap all UK jobs should be flexible, says...
The first black woman to lead America's West Point cadets. (ABC News)A female sex worker’s Google-style gender equality manifesto. (The Independent)The three women running for South Afric...
1 in 4 Americans thinks time travel will happen before gender equality in business. (Fortune)Men are replacing women as CEOs in a step backwards for diversity. (Bloomberg)Female CEOs hold...
Sheryl Sandberg calls for policy changes to raise women’s pay. (The Guardian)How not to advocate for a woman at work. (Harvard Business Review)Women not on board when companies go public....
BBC journalist confronts boss about the pay gap, live on air. (Quartz)Why women aren’t CEOs, according to women who almost were. (New York Times)How to speed up gender equality in high-gr...
Equal pay laws in the UK may be scrapped after Brexit. (The Independent)Google ordered to hand over salary details in gender equality court battle. (The Guardian)Women of colour face stag...
Welcome to our weekly digest of stories about how the gender gap plays out around the world – in business, health, education and politics – from the World Economic Forum. Carrie Lam swor...
Welcome to our weekly digest of stories about how the gender gap plays out around the world – in business, health, education and politics – from the World Economic Forum. Women now have ...