Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The gender gap in Silicon Valley, success in science and other top gender stories of the week

A group of women watch the sun set over the ocean in Laguna Beach, California October 24, 2016.

Image: REUTERS/Mike Blake

Saadia Zahidi
Managing Director, World Economic Forum

Woman appointed to chair of Saudi Arabia’s stock exchange. (Albawaba)

Snapchat’s only woman board member gets ‘paid like an intern’ compared to other directors. (Slate)

More women than men run Central Banks in Southeast Asia. (Bloomberg)

The gender gap in Silicon Valley, born of computer-game marketing 20 years ago. (Quartz)

This is how to get more women into leadership roles. (World Economic Forum)

Rentals out of reach of single women in most big US cities. (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Where in the world are the best female developers? The countries might surprise you. (CIO)

Proctor and Gamble’s new commitment to gender equality across Indian subcontinent, Middle East and Africa. (Times of India)

Financial literacy and young women: strong on short-term, struggle with long-term. (The Conversation)

Do men make better cyber security decisions under pressure? Apparently not. (CSO)

Stories of success in science: three women share. (World Economic Forum)

Female MP abuse ‘puts women off politics’, says British MP Diane Abbott. (BBC)

Where are the inventive women? Women inventors in international patent applications by origin, 2011–15
Data from: Measuring women’s participation in international patenting, WIPO

Quote of the week

“I receive racist and sexist abuse online on a daily basis. I have had rape threats, death threats, and am referred to routinely as a bitch and/or nigger, and am sent horrible images on Twitter.”

Diane Abbott, MP
Shadow Home Secretary and Member of Parliament, UK
I fought racism and misogyny to become an MP. The fight is getting harder.

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