Boards, quotas, women at the CIA and other must-read gender stories of the week

A woman is reflected on a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo July 14, 2015.
Image: REUTERS/Toru Hanai

Companies need a new gender-equality playbook. (Wall Street Journal)

A special report on Women and Work. (Financial Times)

What women add to boards. (Wall Street Journal)

Four percent of CEOs in Europe are women. That's double seven years ago. (Quartz)

The 25 women to watch in banking in the US. (American Banker)

Women on boards twice as likely to have professional tech experience. (TechRepublic)

Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business. (The Conversation)

Quotas have led to more women on corporate boards in Europe. (London School of Economics)

The ‘maternal wall’, is it keeping women from the C-suite? (HRD Singapore)

Women of the CIA: The hidden history. (Newsweek)

Sexual harassment in the astronomy lab. (CNN)

Female farmers suffer most in Southern Africa drought. (Al Jazeera)

Gaining women's political representation and leadership in rural China. (Huffington Post)

Eva, a little robot with a big mission: Get girls to code. (Wired)

The 67% of women we don’t see often enough. (Huffington Post)

Gender representation in the corporate pipeline, 2016.
Source: Women in the Workplace 2016, a study of the state of women in corporate America. The study is part of a long-term partnership between LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company

Quote of the week

“I think that there is a responsibility for companies to take chances on women, put them in high-profile positions, give them opportunities and have a good pipeline of diversity in their workforce because it's a reflection of what their customers look like (...) But I do think that women also need to take responsibility for their own careers and their own advancement. It's not someone else's responsibility. It's theirs.”

Maggie Wilderotter
CEO of Frontier Communications
Q&A with Stanford Advocate, September 2014

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