17 must-read gender stories of the week

Welcome to your weekly digest of stories about how the gender gap plays out around the world – in business, health, education and politics. This week the focus is on the conversation at our Annual Meeting in Davos.

‘I think we need an Internet of women’ and other quotes on gender parity from Davos 2016.

Sheryl Sandberg and the ‘toddler wage gap’.

Justin Trudeau will raise his sons as feminists.

Confidence and care: a tale of two feminisms.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Will gender parity be a happy consequence?

On the agenda

The gender gaps we need to close: starting with education, economics and employment.

Beware quick-fix, ad-hoc gender parity programmes.

5 charts that show how business views gender equality.

Women entrepreneurs face extra challenges.


From around the world

Women-led Bay Area start-ups receive Series A funding down from 30% to 8%. (WSJ.com)

Virginity scholarship: the new weapon in the war against HIV and teenage pregnancy? (BBC)

48% of millennial women feel overlooked for leadership, says Deloitte survey. (NYMag.com)

Female professors rate lower than male colleagues. A look at the facts. (NPR)

UN brains trust to jumpstart the global movement on women’s economic power. (Reuters)

One of India’s most under-developed states reserves 35% of government jobs for women. (Reuters)

10 US tech giants leading the pack on parental leave. (CIO)

Pakistan’s gaming industry: a hot bed of gender parity. (Al Jazeera)

Statistic of the week

85% of venture capital-funded businesses have no women on the leadership team.

2.7% of firms receiving venture capital funding have female CEOs.

Women entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the gender gap in venture capital.

Quote of the week

“Men still run the world; I’m not sure it’s going so well.”
- Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook