14 must-read gender stories of the week

A weekly digest of stories about how the gender gap plays out around the world – in business, health, education and politics.

Is knowing how much your colleagues earn the key to closing the gender gap?

Could financial markets end gender inequality?

Do quotas get more women on boards? Now we know the answer.

India’s Tata Sons sets new benchmark in employment policies for women. (Economic Times)

Salary negotiations: why men are three times more likely than women to succeed. (Fortune)

6% of venture capitalists are women. One accelerator is changing this. (Fast Company)

The global state of women-owned small business enterprises. (Business.com)

Women are bankrolling more political campaigns than ever. (New York Times)

Levelling the playing field for women in politics Is not divisive. (Huffington Post)

Facebook helps women entrepreneurs in India to harness power of social media. (Times of India)

Can this app tackle domestic violence in Somalia? (The Guardian)

Women leaders in Silicon Valley launch diversity tool. (Wall Street Journal)

Single-sex security checks at Chinese airports shorten waiting time for male passengers. (BBC)

The gender gap brought to you (again) but this time with action figures. (Wired)

Statistics of the week: China's she-commerce

55% of China's internet entrepreneurs are women

Gender Equality and Women's Development in China
Whitepaper, reported in Women of China

Quote of the week

“Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts! Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears! We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.”

Julie Ward Howe
“Mother’s Day Proclamation”, 1870 calling on women to come together to promote peace and compassion.
From Quartz.