“We’re going to use some of the 65 billion on highly effective apprenticeship and technical-training initiatives,” she said. Some of that will involve providing “wrap-around services” like childcare and transportation, which are essential to helping boost the participation of women.

Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott are among philanthropists donating money to the Gender Fund, which seeks to raise $1 billion to advance equality and women’s leadership in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Contributions to date have topped $320 million and grant-making has begun across the three regions.

As prominent equestrians are banned for sexual abuse and even arrested, some traditionalists are taking aim at the Olympic watchdog created to protect young athletes.

Last September, feminist activists in Mexico City climbed up to an empty plinth in the center of a roundabout and installed a wooden carving of a woman raising her fist to the sky. The place that activists now call La Glorieta de las Mujeres que Luchan, or the Roundabout of the Women who Fight, has become a flashpoint in the ongoing feminist uprising that has transformed the Mexican capital.

Tennis great Serena Williams has raised $111 million for an early stage venture capital fund with a focus on diversity. Founded in 2014, it currently has a portfolio of about 60 startups, of which about three-quarters are led by founders from under-represented communities.

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved mifepristone 21 years ago, it was known as RU-486 and hailed as the most important advance in reproductive health since the birth control pill. Yet in the two decades since FDA approval, mifepristone has failed to reach liftoff. If anything, it’s receded from view.

Female athletes on Team USA took home 17 medals, the most by any nation at the winter Games, with 13 from women’s events and four more in mixed-gender competitions. But success in competition still hides issues that can plague women athletes, from a lack of funding to outsized scrutiny on social media platforms by viewers at home.

In Uttar Pradesh, India, politician Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is leading an effort to put forward female candidates for at least 40% of the Congress Party's slate for the state assembly, with a slogan that translates as "I'm a girl and I can fight."

A record number of women now hold seats in the boardrooms of the largest U.S. banks. But most of them are still waiting for the power that should come with their positions.

Female founders secured only 2% of venture capital in the U.S. in 2021, the smallest share since 2016 and a sign that efforts to diversify the famously male-dominated industry are struggling.

A “Me Too” scandal has broken out in Iceland, where allegations of sexual misconduct recently led to a number of management changes on the top echelons of business.