To mark its 58th publication anniversary, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit has announced a new advertising mandate that will see only brands helping to drive gender equality be featured in the magazine’s annual print issue and digital presence.

“Can you imagine being told your natural, normal way of being isn’t appropriate? Isn’t good enough? All of a sudden you start to lose all faith and credibility in yourself.”

Mattel has unveiled a commemorative Barbie doll to celebrate the achievements of real-life Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the European Space Agency's only active female astronaut.

In a study of more than 155,000 company conference calls over the past 19 years, Prattle found that men spoke 92 percent of the time. That's partly because male executives and analysts far outnumber women in those roles. It's also because men just talk more. "Male executives provide significantly more verbose answers to analyst questions than their female counterparts," Prattle CEO Evan Schnidman said. "One could surmise that male executives are more prone to speaking simply to hear themselves speak."

A clever print campaign from highlighter pen brand Stabilo Boss emphasizes the role of important women who have been overlooked throughout history. The ads take black and white historical images and then use a highlighter pen to pick out the woman in the photograph: for example, Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician responsible for calculating Apollo 11's safe return to earth, is highlighted in the corner of a room full of men.