Taking consistent action with a long-term and intentional view to advance meaningful and systemic change for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

“Ensuring people are paid fairly is long overdue and is a fundamental issue that needs to be addressed to progress towards an equitable society,” Curry said in a statement. “Syndio is an objective solution that removes unconscious bias from the equation and changes the way business leaders tackle workplace equity, making pay equity the standard for companies around the world.”

In the words of Dominique Crenn, a three-Michelin star chef: “When I hire someone, I don’t care about their résumé. I want to know who they are and what they think about themselves, humanity, and the planet.”

Says Lorraine Hariton, CEO of the gender equality organization Catalyst: "We need to tell the optimistic—but not exuberant— story around what's happening for women."

Direct-to-consumer medical apparel company FIGS debuted on the public market, raising nearly $581 million. It appears to be the first-ever company taken public by female cofounders.

LinkedIn recently annoucned that is introducing several new job titles, including “stay-at-home mom,” to allow full-time parents and other caretakers to provide more accurate descriptions of their time away from the paid labor force. It is also removing its requirement that any resume entry—for example, “stay-at-home dad”—must be linked to a specific company or employer.

Female graduates of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) report that their college experiences were the only time in their lives when they felt like their success was purely about their abilities and nothing else. They did not have to prove to anyone that they deserved to be there. They were expected to succeed and do well.

"This isn't uniquely for us," Bela Bajaria, Netflix's head of global TV, says. "It's for the industry as a whole to have much more dynamic, interesting, multi-dimensional representation of women. ... We hope that maybe they'd be employed on Netflix shows, but also that they just have careers and tell their stories wherever this takes them.

Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of the nonprofit Girls Who Code. Based, has suggested that the scale of the economic crisis for women calls for investment of the kind last seen in the aftermath of World War II, she declared that the U.S. needs a "Marshall Plan for Moms." Not suprisingly the idea has drawn both praise and criticism.

Startups as a whole raised 13% more from venture capitalists in 2020 compared to 2019, for an annual total of $150 billion. But one other trend in investing is clear: that boom was distributed unevenly.

When we achieve intersectional gender equity, it means we will have closed all the gaps across gender, race, ethnicity that prevent people from fully participating in the economy. These gaps include the pay gap as well as gaps in promotion, performance evaluation, and access to opportunity. It’s about leveling the playing field so everyone—regardless of their gender or skin color—has the chance to realize their ambitions.