Women leaders

Tadashi Yanai, Fast Retailing Co.’s 70-year-old billionaire founder, said a woman would be better for Asia’s largest retailer as women “are persevering, detailed oriented and have an aesthetic sense.”

Entrepreneurs with female and Asian-sounding names received more interested replies. But that doesn’t mean bias against women or POC isn’t happening.

Terri Kallsen, executive vice president, Investor Services, at Charles Schwab, has been named the 2019 Financial Woman of the Year by Financial Women of San Francisco (FWSF),

LINDSAY TIGAR

Researchers say the metabolism of a woman's brain remains higher than a man's throughout a lifetime. And that may help with late-life creativity and learning.

An exclusive first look at the upcoming Women, Peace, and Security Index shows how these countries might surprise you—and why it’s strategic to care.

Computex, which wrapped up today, is divided into two venues in Taipei. One, Nangang Exhibition Center, is where the big companies, including Asus and Microsoft, have their booths. The other, in Taipei World Trade Center, houses Innovex, the show’s exhibit for startups. While walking around them, I realized that there are no “booth babes” at […]

Rachel Syme

The Metropolitan Opera, representing arguably the most traditionalist musical form in an already innovation-wary field, has twenty-three conductors on rotation this season, all of whom are men. And many women in opera who are credited as assistant conductors are often restricted to piano accompaniment, the recently-appointed Chicago Opera Theater music director Lidiya Yankovskaya told me. Of the top twenty world orchestras as ranked by a panel of esteemed music critics—which Gramophone published in 2008—not one has a female conductor on staff. Some, including the Vienna Philharmonic, do have female guest conductors in rotation.

Sweden and France among states found by the World Bank to enshrine gender equality in laws, but implementation haphazard

LEILA FADEL