Melinda Gates shares her own story of gender assumptions and unpaid work

Melissa Gates, wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has written an essay in the Wall Street Journal titled “Equality for Women Must Start at Home (Even the Gates Home).” Continue reading

New 60 Minutes  segment focuses on young girls and science

A CBS 60 Minutes segment on March 3 focused on new efforts to get girls to love computer science and other STEM subjects at a very young age. One of the people featured, Hadi Partovi, the founder of Code.org, a non-profit that aims to teach computer science to all American students, said that “to increase the number of women in tech, the focus needs to begin well before women enter the workforce.” Continue reading

Panel will address what well-intentioned men in the workplace can do

A panel of female and male supply chain leaders at the 2019 AWESOME Symposium – May 1-3 in Seattle — will discuss the challenges and successes of women and men working together to achieve gender parity. Bonnie Fetch, author of (Un)Skirting the Issues: A Guide for the Well-Intentioned Man in Today’s Workplace, will moderate. Continue reading