Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra top the new 2020 list of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business, which was released Monday. Because of the multiple crises marking this year — the pandemic, economic shocks, an...
Climate change, climate crisis and telling children the truth. Climate change, climate crisis and talking to our children. Truth telling. It sounds so easy, it sounds so natural. Are we doing them a disservice by telling them half-truths? And what if the truth...
In reviewing Kamala D. Harris’s performance in Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate, two thoughts occurred to President Trump. “Totally unlikable,” he said during an interview on Fox Business. He also called her “a monster” — twice. Trump, who has never been big...
Debate about recent and upcoming changes to superannuation, including the early release scheme and the proposed rise to the superannuation guarantee, has been running hot for a few months now. Likewise, the fact that women have been disproportionately hit by the...
A meta-analysis of recent evaluations to support female entrepreneurship Around the globe, women participate less in paid economic activities than men. The gender gap in labor force participation is around 14 percent in the median OECD country, 26 percent in the...
It felt like the grief came instantaneously. Within minutes of the Supreme Court’s announcement Friday night that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had passed away at the age of 87 , tributes in her honor poured across social media, in text messages between family and...
