Around the world, fertility rates are in free fall. Governments have been scratching their heads over how to make babies a more feasible proposition. It’s not that parents don’t want kids – most families yearn…
Reshma Saujani is founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms (on which McKinsey has served as a knowledge partner), a campaign to…
The call to take her place in baseball history, one that Alyssa Nakken had long prepared for, came in the third inning Tuesday night, when the San Francisco Giants’ first base coach was ejected for…
“Slava Ukraini,” says Zhanna Galeyeva as she watches a group of young girls busily drawing on a recent afternoon. “Glory to Ukraine.” In an airy, sun-filled room of what used to…
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…