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.
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.
Facebook to train 10,000 female business owners to bridge UK gender gap. (The Independent)Single women play down career ambitions in front of single men. (World Economic Forum)Ivy League ...
The new US congress is the most diverse ever – but is it enough? (BBC)Red carpet dresses at Golden Globes “aren’t a requirement”. (Quartz)Amnesty International USA co-sponsoring Women’s M...
Over the course of the last year, at World Economic Forum and elsewhere, I have asked participants two questions. First I ask for a show of hands on whether they feel confident about thei...
40 female founders who crushed it in 2016. (TechCrunch) 7 women trailblazers who took a stand in 2016. (NPR) Women make up more than half of the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. (Huffi...
Pay rates for women in US rising faster than for men. (Bloomberg)Top 20 women entrepreneurs to watch in 2017. (CIO)The gender pay gap is harming women’s health. (The Conversation)Lean in?...
First Canadian woman on $10 bill: Black rights activist Viola Desmond. (CBC News)More women on boards = higher dividend rates. (Reuters)CEOs of 27 firms pledge to have 50% women in top ro...
Women top the list of 50 Brexit influencers on EurActiv’s Power List. (Euractiv)Christine Lagarde urges wider respect for women. (Bloomberg)Young women shut out of jobs market by lack of ...
First woman to lead NASDAQ or any major US exchange. (New York Times)Men still paid vastly more than women on average in UK. (The Guardian)The gig economy, racial and gender discriminatio...
Gender equality at work: not just a “nice to have”. (World Economic Forum)The effects of austerity hit women twice as hard as men. (Guardian)Report: Women in tech earn $0.94 cents to ever...
Record number of women of colour in US Senate. (ABC News)Gender pay gap protest stops work at top French offices. (The Guardian)Work four months for free? American women do. (World Econom...
Equal pay for men and women, lessons from the government sector. (The Atlantic)Do quotas actually get more women onto boards? (World Economic Forum)More women on FTSE 100 boards, but stil...
5 surprising facts from this year’s Gender Gap Report. (World Economic Forum)More women elected to Iceland’s Parliament than members of any one party. (NPR.org)Women, entrepreneurship and...
The US election is dominating news coverage around the world, in part because of the gender-related themes it has surfaced. In just two short weeks, the US might elect its first female he...
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.
