GC4W Women in Leadership

This Tech Founder Makes Women’s Commutes Safer

Meet The Tech Founder Working To Make Women’s Commutes Safer By Bianca Barratt In today’s workplace, it’s not unusual for employees to find themselves leaving work late into the night. Whether it’s due to working late shifts, attending events, or simply socializing with colleagues, walking alone in the dark – either to get to public transport or a final destination…

Women Are Leading The Tech Nonprofit Sector

Women Are Leading The Tech Nonprofit Sector. Meet Six Solving Problems They’ve Lived. By Shannon Farley The share of women in tech leadership roles recently dropped to 28%. This gender gap presents a huge problem, and not only for workforce diversity. Women experience the world and its myriad of problems differently than their male counterparts. This difference in experience can result…

Why Everyone Wins With More Women In Leadership

Why Everyone Wins With More Women In Leadership By Solomon Amar The future is female. Research shows that companies with more women on their boards outperform those without by a significant margin, and organizations with greater gender diversity among senior leaders are more profitable. Yet despite significant progress, the proportion of women in senior management roles globally grew to 32% in 2022—the highest number…

Iyer is Harvard Law Review’s 1st Indian-American Woman Pres.

Apsara Iyer becomes first Indian American woman president of Harvard Law Review A second-year student at Harvard Law School, Iyer became the first woman from the community to be elected to the coveted position in the prestigious publication’s 136-year history, a report in The Harvard Crimson said on Monday By CNBCTV18.com Apsara Iyer, an Indian American student at the Harvard Law…

Afro-Latina Carla Vernon Leads ‘The Honest Company’

Jessica Alba’s ‘The Honest Company’ Taps Carla Vernón As CEO— One Of The Only Afro-Latinas To Lead A U.S. Publicly Traded Company Latinx women make up just 1.6% of senior executives in the nation’s largest companies. By Jasmine Browley Jessica Alba’s The Honest Company has toppled many barriers as a leader in the clean lifestyle product space. Now, it looks like their newest…

Why businesses, banks & society still need female execs

Why businesses, banks and society still need more women in executive roles By Alper Kara Only nine in the UK’s top 100 companies have a woman CEO, a recent report has revealed – part of an “appalling” picture of British business which even in 2022 remains remarkably male dominated. The report, from accountancy giant EY and Cranfield University, goes on to reveal that…

Lilly Singh & Karen Cahn On The Gender Gap In Business & Politics

Lilly Singh & Karen Cahn On The Gender Gap In Business & Politics By Christine Michel Carter Diageo’s Johnnie Walker brand is teaming up with comedian and writer Lilly Singh and founder and CEO of IFundWomen Karen Cahn under the brand’s First Strides program. The Johnnie Walker First Strides program is a series of initiatives and grants to help create more opportunities for cultural innovators. Singh…