Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
Is intimate partner violence ever acceptable? Almost 40 years after the United Nations committed to ending violence against women in all its forms, the answer to that question should be a...
What’s the one thing that keeps you up at night? Terrorist attacks? Makes sense. Research shows although deaths fell overall from 2014-2015, many countries experienced record levels of te...
All eyes are on Twitter, after the social media giant unveiled its fourth-quarter earnings yesterday. Shortly after announcing revenue of $710 million and a net loss of $90 million, share...
“Leaders in Burundi have spewed hateful rhetoric, and terrible acts of violence have taken the lives of innocent men, women and children,” President Barack Obama warned the world in a vid...
The United States isn’t exactly known for its family-friendly work policies. It’s the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave. It has no laws requiring paid vacat...
In the United States, women are paid 77 cents on the dollar for the same work as men. At least, that’s the statistic we hear thrown around whenever the conversation turns to the gender pa...
Could 2016 be the year we see a woman take leadership of one of the world’s most important institutions?
Sex sells, or so the old adage goes. Which perhaps explains why everywhere you turn – the billboard on the side of the highway, the advert on the subway – images of scantily clad women ar...
Are we on the cusp of a Fourth Industrial Revolution? Most participants in Davos think so. And it’s unlike anything we’ve ever experienced: “As a society, we are entering uncharted territ...
Three leading economists and academics at Davos agree: GDP is a poor way of assessing the health of our economies and we urgently need to find a new measure.
Terror attacks, geopolitical turmoil, volatile stock markets – it’s fair to say the year has got off to a bumpy start. But what will the rest of 2016 hold? While it’s notoriously difficul...
Every year in January, thousands of the world’s most influential people descend on the Swiss mountain town of Davos. The stories behind their success can teach us a lot about leadership. ...
“We are not the prisoners of a predetermined future,” John Kerry said at Davos on Thursday, as world leaders discussed just what that future should look like -- from the fallout of the Fo...
Social media is a powerful tool – for both good and bad. Whether you’re promoting a fundraiser for a charity or something more nefarious, it’s an easy way to reach billions of people. And...
We will never achieve gender equality unless everyone – girls, boys, women, men – are involved. That, in a nutshell, was Emma Watson’s message in Davos, where she came to launch UN Women’...
