By Roger Trapp On the face of it, 2020 looked like a year when women in leadership positions made progress. Not only was it well noted that countries with female heads of state — including Taiwan and New Zealand — were among those that seemed to cope best with the coronavirus pandemic. But in the U.S. Kamala Harris was last…
Louise Glück, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna, and Andrea M. Ghez just became Nobel laureates. BY CHELSEY SANCHEZ Since the Nobel Prize was established in 1895, less than 60 women have been honored with the prestigious international award. This week, four women–Louise Glück, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna, and Andrea M. Ghez–were added to that roster, triumphing in literature, chemistry, and physics. Below,…
BY JACQUELINE GUICHELAAR AS TOLD TO KATHARINE SCHWAB A large population of my direct reports are in the U.S., but I’ve also got people in the U.K., and in the Asia-Pacific region. And because people aren’t flying anymore, we’re doing all our strategy sessions every quarter, every month, every week on video calls. So if you want to do a…
— The movement to hold the Nigerian police force’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad accountable for its crimes has been driven by female activists. By Vincent Desmond Damilola Odufuwa has always been passionate about women’s rights in Nigeria. In 2018, she founded Wine and Whine, an organization to help women foster professional networking opportunities, alongside Odunayo Eweniyi, one of Nigeria’s trailblazing tech entrepreneurs…
By Natalie Guevara As Bank of America’s Seattle market president, Kerri Schroeder works to ensure the bank is improving the financial lives of its customers. “That means making sure that clients have a good experience with us, no matter how we serve them, and making sure that we deliver the entire firm to address their needs,” she said. During the pandemic, she…
By Anne Branigin In most cases, being named a L’Oréal Paris spokesperson would be quite the glow-up for the honoree—the French cosmetics company has built up an impressive and diverse roster of celebrities to represent it over the years. But take a casual glance through the resume of Jaha Dukureh, a prominent women’s rights activist who was recently named L’Oréal’s…
Lauren Hobart’s appointment to helm of Dick’s Sporting Goods brings number of women running Fortune 500 companies to a record By Vanessa Fuhrams In a year especially hard on many working women, the corporate world can hail one major milestone: A record 41 female CEOs are slated to be soon running Fortune 500 companies. The Tuesday appointment of Lauren Hobart as…
BY ENTREPRENEUR STAFF Ana Karen Ramírez , founder of Epic Queen , is recognized by MIT Technology Review magazine with the Innovators under 35 (IU35) award , which places her as one of the brightest minds in Latin America for her work in empowering girls and women with training in STEM education (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Each year, the magazine owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
The founder and CEO of wellness brand Beekeeper’s Naturals shares how she gets it done and her mission to change our medicine cabinets for good. By Michella Ore As a trader at Goldman Sachs, Carly Stein never imagined that if she were to one day be named to the coveted Forbes 30 Under 30 list, it would involve bees. But beekeeping—as the…
In February 2020, Julia Paige stepped into a new role as the Global Director of Social Impact at Uber. She did not imagine then that she would be leading the company’s response to a global pandemic. But just one month later, when the news of the coronavirus outbreak broke, Paige had her hands full. Thankfully for Paige, she thrives under…
