As you may have noticed, despite decades of training efforts, recruitment drives, and mentoring programs aimed at getting more women into the executive suite, most corporate bosses are still men. Three economists in…
A new U of T Scarborough study finds that liberals and conservatives differ in how they perceive dominance in women, which may influence their likelihood to vote them into political office. “We found that conservatives…
Some of the most incredible advocates, inventors, writers, politicians, and activists have been famous women. Chances are you’ve already heard about a whole bunch of them: Rosa Parks,…
She was a journalist, traveler, suffragist, inventor, industrialist, and woman’s rights activist, but first and foremost she was a humanitarian. Her name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran, but she was better known by her nom de…
Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, was seated at the center of an ornate dining table, nursing her throat with honey and lemon. It was late March, the height of New York’s…
On a picturesque island just a 30-minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle, Juanita Perez described losing a recent race for a delegate seat for the Tlingit and Haida tribes: “I didn’t have all the tools to do…
In a scene from Showtime’s new series “The First Lady,” Michelle Pfeiffer’s Betty Ford tells “60 Minutes” about her unlikely jump from Michigan homemaker to the woman behind the most powerful man in the U.S.
The early 2020s will go down as an interesting time in U.S. philanthropic history. As the U.S. was forced to respond to a series of unprecedented crises, including a pandemic, a war in Europe and…
Black women in law from around the country celebrated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Thursday, with many saying they felt proud and inspired by her…