From running nations to disrupting industries, from the boardroom to the classroom, in modern times and throughout history, women have shown they have what it takes to not only succeed, but to take charge. And when women lead, everyone wins. Today we wanted to share just a few new stories of women taking the lead.
31 Women Who ‘Run the World’ and What Can Be Learned From Them, from TechCrunch— “Today, a new book called Girls Who Run the World hits real and virtual bookshelves, and for anyone with a middle-school aged kid or looking to inspire a high-schooler, it might be worth checking out. Featuring 31 women who are the CEOs of companies that they have created themselves — think Spanx, Glossier, Caribou Sciences and Stitch Fix — each of their stories underscores that dreams sometimes can be made into reality when you want something badly enough.”
9 Women Warriors Through History, from National Geographic—“The women in Pamela Toler’s new millennia-spanning history, Women Warriors, gallop into battle on horseback, hack off enemies’ heads, order executions, mount attacks from jungle cover, and command troops by the tens of thousands. ‘Women have always fought,’ Toler says. ‘And we’ve tended to lose sight of it.’ Modern tools such as forensic DNA testing, plus reexamination of burial artifacts and original documents, are giving historians like Toler new insight into the lives of women who fought with or without men alongside. These were leaders, Toler says, ‘for whom battle was not a metaphor.’”
How a Women-Only Founders Group Helps Businesses Grow, from Built In—“The data still shows that, quite significantly, capital is not flowing to female founders. So even though we have this robust innovation economy, and we have a lot of women in business and doing innovative things, there’s still this enormous gap between the amazing ideas being born by women and the resources that they need to bring those to scale.”
Having More Female Leaders May Boost Companies’ Share Price Performance, Credit Suisse Says, from CNBC—“Shares of companies with more than 20 percent female management had outperformed those with less than 15 percent female management by 5 percent so far this year, the report said. The data showed that this was a long-term trend. Shares of firms that had more women in management outperformed those with male-dominant management almost every year since 2010. Credit Suisse also found that industries with greater levels of gender diversity in management had higher levels of profitability.”
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