12 must-read 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.

What happens when you photoshop men out of politics? (Quartz)

12 badass scientists. (Oh, and they are all women.) (Medium)

What do corporate boards really think about diversity? Not much. PwC’s 2015 Corporate Directors Survey. (Time)

Dead women can’t vote. Lying down (on the red-carpet) for women’s rights. (Reuters)

The best place to be a woman. (World Economic Forum)

The economics of Alzheimer’s. Women bear six times the cost. Why? (Pacific Standard)

Four girls changing the world. (World Economic Forum)

Using photography to change women’s lives. (Mashable)

Women in Business — Qatar’s Aysha Al-Mudahka. (Financial Times)

What do women really want? At Stanford, they want to study computer science. (Reuters)

Rwanda’s female football revolution. An infographic. (Al Jazeera)

Human trafficking. Vulnerable girls step up and fight back. (Women’s e-news)

Statistic of the Week: Female science researchers:

Worldwide: 30%
Bolivia: 63%
Ethiopia: 8%

Unesco Institute of Statistics

Quote of the Week

“I’ve never met an un-strong or un-opinionated woman. But a lot of women don’t fight [for feminism], because they think, Who cares? How is it gonna affect me? We need a partnership between generations… I think that what my character is saying is, “It’s your turn to carry on.”

Helena Bonham Carter, CBE, Actor.
On the release of the film Suffragette.

Author: Saadia Zahidi is a Senior Director, Head of Gender Parity and Human Capital and Constituents at the World Economic Forum

Image: Graduate student Katie Bates works in the Nanomedicine Lab at UCL’s School of Pharmacy in London May 2, 2013. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett