$150 million, to be exact. That’s the size of the initial fund raised by Aspect Ventures, Silicon Valley’s first female-led venture capital firm.
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Think sexual inequality has been around for all of human history? Think again. A new study in Science suggests that our prehistoric ancestors actually operated an egalitarian society for tens of thousands of years.
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Austin, Texas recently elected the first majority-female city council in the city’s history, with seven women and four men. City manager Marc Ott thought that meant it was time for some diversity training—which is when things started to resemble a scene out of The Office.
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Some call it volunteerism. Some say it’s advocacy. Some label it leadership.
It can happen at school, in your neighborhood, at your temple, or at your local rec center.
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The Council of Contemporary Families marked Mother’s Day by rounding up some recent studies on the housework gender divide, and the results are a mixed bag.
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New research suggests that when it comes to choosing their managers, workers don’t know what’s good for them. One-third of Americans say they’d rather have a male boss, 20% say they’d rather have a female boss, and 46% say it makes no difference—but female managers may be more effective.
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John Oliver thinks it’s ridiculous that the United States doesn’t guarantee paid maternity leave, and he’s using his platform to let the world know it. The award-winning satirical newscaster devoted a blistering segment on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight to exposing the hypocrisy of lawmakers who publicly celebrate their mothers on Mother’s Day but oppose paid leave policies. As he put it: “You can’t go on and on about how much you love mothers and then fail to support legislation that makes life easier for them.”
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You hear it all the time: women don’t help other women; women undermine one another at work rather than lift each other up. But pretty much every success I’ve had in my career has come from the support of other women. I’ve been lucky to have multiple mentors who have changed my life. Here are three lessons I learned from three mentors that shed light on how to find a mentor, and keep her.
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Dave Goldberg, the CEO of SurveyMonkey and husband of Sheryl Sandberg, died on Friday following a treadmill accident. He was 47.
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Marc Benioff, you get all the points. The CEO of the cloud computing company is personally examining the salaries of his 16,000 employees to eliminate the pay gap between men and women. When he finds evidence of a gap—get this!—he raises the woman’s salary. He’s already given out a few raises, and told The Huffington Post, “When I’m done there will be no gap.” He then tore open his shirt to reveal a superhero suit underneath. (Kidding, but he totally could have, and no one would’ve blinked.)
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Last week the equal-pay movement gained an unlikely supporter in Pope Francis, who called the pay gap between men and women “a pure scandal.” The Pope used his weekly address to urge Christians to demand equal pay for equal work, saying, “Why is it expected that women must earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.”
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The financial services giant will extend its paid maternity leave benefits from 12 weeks to 16 weeks, Chief Executive Stephen Schwarzman announced on Wednesday!
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