Happy workplaces, boys’ clubs and other gender stories of the week
Welcome to your weekly digest of stories about how the gender gap plays out around the world – in business, health, education and politics.
Trying to create a happy workplace? Make sure you’ve got enough women. (World Economic Forum)
Pakistan’s wildly successful female fund manager. “After all these years, I still get asked why I don’t just design clothes.” (Bloomberg)
A lack of working women stunts India’s growth. But politicians don’t realise it’s a policy problem. (Financial Times)
451 Indian companies have a week to appoint female directors. New rules require at least one woman on the boards of listed companies. (Quartz)
The most exclusive boys’ club. America’s most powerful start-ups have shunned female board members. (Fortune)
What is holding back female and minority entrepreneurs? It all comes down to a lack of capital. (World Economic Forum)
Dreams of becoming a miner. Women in Zimbabwe aren’t allowed underground. (The Herald)
Roll up, roll up. Women are driving movie ticket sales to a degree never seen before. (New York Times)
Emmy Noether gets a Google doodle. She revolutionised physics. Einstein was a fan. But the German mathematician, born in 1882, has been largely overlooked. (Time)
Why tech needs girls. The Ghanaian woman teaching girls to code.(Deutsche Welle)
Honduran women refuse to be silenced. “We will face obstacles because breaking chains is not easy, but we shall push forward.”(Guardian)
Crowdsourcing to fight gender-based violence. Harrassmap in Egypt gives women a voice. (World Economic Forum)
“You are role models to the world.” Michelle Obama urges Cambodian girls to stay in school. (Bangkok Post)
Statistic of the Week
Around the world, just nine countries don’t offer maternity and paternity leave. The US is the only developed country in this group.
Quote of the Week
“Part of what I thought I could contribute, that in someone else’s darkest moment, lodged in their subconscious might be the knowledge that there was someone else who was, at one point in time, the most humiliated person in the world, and that she survived it.”
Author: Ceri Parker is an Associate Director at the World Economic Forum, and edits the Agenda blog platform.
Image: A woman waits to board a “women only” passenger train during morning rush hours in Tokyo October 7, 2011. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao
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