gender-equality
(11)
Raj Khaira and the things we learn to question
A classroom debate, a box of pink sweets, a shelf of children’s books. Before and during her years building AutogenAI, Raj Khaira kept finding practical ways to challenge the stories people inherit.
FFinc puts women in the rooms where business happens
A £175 membership, a six-month accelerator and a very deliberate guest list. FFinc is building a business around the introductions female founders too often have to make for themselves.
Angels4Women puts women on both sides of the cheque
In Milan, a network of business angels backs women-led startups and teaches investors how to judge them. The interesting part is the machinery between a promising introduction and an actual investment.
Cajigo knows a career can begin with a conversation
A Bristol social enterprise connects girls and women with the people already working in technology. Its wager: a clearer route and a useful mentor can make an unfamiliar career feel possible.
Girl Power Talk Bets the Client Brief on the Person With the Shortest Résumé
The Mohali social enterprise sells serious digital work to global clients, then hands meaningful responsibility to young people whom conventional employers might still be asking to fetch coffee.
Rachita Sharma Bet Her Name on a Fairer Kind of Work
At thirteen, she dropped a surname to reject an inherited advantage. Years later, Rachita Sharma built a company around the same wager: judge young people by what they can become.
The Famous Person Is Not the Point
WRTHY learned that attention is only rented. Its sharper trick is deciding who should borrow it - an epidemiologist, a farmer, a survivor, an athlete - and giving that person something useful to do with the crowd.
Jes Wolfe Is Building the World Beyond the Bedtime Story
She took a storybook company into apps, audio, events, and women's sports. The operating idea is simple: confidence grows when girls can see more lives available to them.
Fiona Carter’s Assignment: Make Goldman Sachs Legible
Goldman Sachs spent more than 150 years building relationships behind closed doors. Its first chief marketing officer is turning that private fluency into a public language - one campaign, client insight and carefully chosen word at a time.
Rebel Girls
Rebel Girls is a global, multi-platform empowerment brand for Generation Alpha girls, built around true stories of extraordinary women. What began as a record-breaking Kickstarter book, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, has grown into a franchise of best-selling books, an award-winning podcast, an Apple Design Award-winning app, and a licensed merchandise line. A certified B Corporation and Women-Owned business, Rebel Girls has sold roughly 13 million books across 62 languages, logged more than 30 million podcast downloads, and set a goal of reaching 50 million girls.
Room to Read
Room to Read is a global nonprofit working to create a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality. Founded in 2000 after a Microsoft executive's trek through Nepal, it partners with communities and governments to build foundational literacy in early grades and to support girls through secondary school with life-skills and mentorship. As of 2024 it reports reaching more than 50 million children across 28 countries.