Anita Hill writes, "The need for solutions is as urgent as ever."

Career site The Muse—which helps between 6 and 8 million people explore career options monthly—will be adding fertility benefits as part of its job search filters.

Real progress will happen when both investors and entrepreneurs reevaluate and update the pitching and investing process and work towards neutralizing – and eventually eradicating – invisible biases across the investment community.

The past year has been a turning point for female founders, with Sara Blakely from Spanx, Whitney Wolfe Herd of dating app company Bumble, and Anne Wojcicki of genetics startup 23andMe crossing a rare threshold: female founders and CEOs who have sold or taken their company public—and achieved billionaire status in the process.

Some nations and cities around the world are embracing—or at least pondering—offering leave for those who suffer from debilitating period pain. Meanwhile, such policies have been in place for years in some parts of Asia and elsewhere.

WNBA players will get free access to fertility testing services, furthering the leading position of women’s basketball in providing health and family benefits in sports.

The billionaire flyboys of space tourism get all the attention, but women are developing some of the most promising technologies designed for the final frontier.

Yesterday, more than 50 companies signed an updated version of the "Don't Ban Equality" letter that argues that abortion restrictions are bad for business. Signees agree that they "stand against policies that hinder people’s health, independence, and ability to fully succeed in the workplace."

Venture capitalist Allison Long Pettine believes that the same problems that keep women out of the C-Suite are also preventing women from raising their fair share of startup funding in Silicon Valley. Here she suggests three ways that leaders can support women on their way to the C-suite, by helping them overcome some of the major obstacles they face.

Some 100 million female migrant workers send remittances—money sent to family members still living in their home countries— helping to sustain economies around the world. Women make up about half of all migrants living and working abroad and also account for roughly half of annual remittances.

“All of those people were people who were retained at Facebook for more than 10 years, which is unusual in a corporate context. I don’t see us as not retaining. I see us as we have long retention, and the experience of being at Facebook gives people the opportunity to do so many other things. I think it’s really cool that two of those three left to become CEO of something.”