A new Quinnipiac University poll finds that among women, Democrats are leading on the generic congressional ballot by a 58% to 33%, a 25-point margin. Republicans, though, lead among men 50% to 42%, an 8-point margin. That large gap between how women and men say they will vote in the midterm election is consistent with an average of live interview polls taken…
Michigan State University announced it had settled with 332 sexual abuse victims of Lawrence G. Nassar, a physician who worked with the school’s gymnastics program. The settlement will pay $425 million to 332 victims, or about $1.28 million each; it will set aside an additional $75 million in a trust for any future claims of sexual abuse against Mr. Nassar. Half a…
General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra, who broke the glass ceiling as the first female chief executive in the global auto industry, has selected another high-achieving woman to join her in the executive suite. The company now has female leadership in the two top roles in the company. Dhivya Suryadevara, 39, will take over as GM’s chief financial officer on September 1, replacing Chuck Stevens, who is retiring after 40 years…
Early in her career, Samira Negm, a Cairo-based engineer, programmed self-parking features for cars. But she spent nearly as much time driving a car as she spent programming one. Millions of people moved from home to work every day in her city of more than 20 million; her daily commute to work could at times run to three hours or…
Forbes released its annual list of the World’s highest-paid athletes, and on a list of 100 names, precisely no woman athlete is found in the 2018 edition. According to CNN, at least one woman and no more than three have been featured on the list since it expanded to 50 names in 2010 (it’s now 100). That means anywhere from 94…
Women are carrying nearly two-thirds of the country’s outstanding student loan debt. That alarming math comes out of a new report by the American Association of University Women, an education advocacy group, titled, “Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans.” To be sure, 56 percent of today’s college students are women, and so it makes sense that more women than…
Canada says it plans to provide $2.9bn (£2.2bn; €2.5bn) with the help of its G7 partners to fund education for the world’s poorest girls and women. UK and the World Bank also commited funds for education for girls and women. The money will help fund equal access to education and learning opportunities in countries across the globe, a government statement…
With women still pushing to reach the top, they are faced with a range of challenges that many of their male CEO counterparts don’t have an understanding of. It is these issues that are preventing many women from achieving their goal of becoming a leader at their company and diminishing their ability to get ahead in business. Members of Forbes Coaches Council share what…
Britain’s 25 most aspirational and influential women have been named by magazine Vogue — and there are some very familiar faces on this list of global citizens. Meghan Markle, now the Duchess of Sussex, Amal Clooney, and J.K. Rowling, who in their own ways embrace global citizenship, are all featured in what the magazine described as an “extraordinary cast of leaders defining —…
Stacey Cunningham made history last month when she became the first female president of the New York Stock Exchange in the institution’s 226-year history. Cunningham — who began her career with the exchange as a 19-year-old intern in 1994 — said she was touched when colleagues said she was an example for their own daughters. She also acknowledged women who…
