You knew they were great at making basic t-shirts, but did you know they’re doing great things for women as well? Congratulations are in order for Gap Inc., winner of the 2016 Catalyst Award.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a.k.a. the people who vote on the Oscars, are the first ones to admit they’re not happy the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag is still a thing. After the second year in a row in which zero actors of color received acting nominations, and with numerous celebrities speaking up about it, the Academy is taking dramatic steps to improve diversity in its ranks so that the whitewash doesn’t happen again.
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Business and world leaders gathered in Davos, Switzerland last week for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. Given that this is a meeting of many of the world’s most powerful people, you could guess that women are underrepresented at the summit, and you would be right. Women made up 18 percent of the participants at Davos this year. It’s an improvement over last year’s figure of 17 percent, but it still left a few women attendees noticing they were the odd ones out.
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But that’s only because half of NASA’s latest astronaut class is female, and they’re training for a mission that could see them visit Earth’s nearest neighbor in 15 years.
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With only two non-white members on its eight-person board of directors, Apple, Inc.’s diversity problem isn’t quite on the level of the 2016 Oscars, but it definitely has room for improvement.
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Last July we wrote about how Taiwan was on the verge of electing a female president for the first time in its history, with both major political parties nominating female candidates. Over the weekend the island made it official by voting Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party into office.Tsai won 56 percent of the vote in what the Economist is calling a “landslide that will change Chinese politics.”
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Investment research firm MSCI has analyzed the 2,400 companies in its World Index and concluded the same thing as everyone else: companies with more women in leadership perform better financially.
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Are you tired of the supposed ongoing “war” between working mothers and stay-at-home mothers? Then you’re going to like this piece of news: a study from researchers at Penn and NYU suggests that most Americans take a much more nuanced view of working parents’ choices than the headlines would have us believe.
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TIME announced last week that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is its Person of the Year for 2015. Good for Angela Merkel, you may be thinking, but why is this big news to Take The Lead?
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Imagine a calendar of women chosen for their brains and not their beauty. You don’t have to imagine it: the makers of the 2016 Pirelli calendar—a calendar that, as the New York Times put it, has long been known as an “arty soft-core ode to pinups”—just made it a reality.
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Mark Zuckerberg is a dad! He and his wife Priscilla welcomed their daughter Maxima early last week, and by our estimation she’s already one of the most influential women of the year.
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You know that guy who loves to rain on your gender equality parade by telling you that men’s and women’s brains are fundamentally different? Now you can tell him that science says he’s wrong.
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