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Finance
Fearless Fund co-founder steps down as operating chief as firm fights conservative backlash against diversity programs
BYAlexandra Olson and The Associated Press

Commentary
Mothers are back at work. Here’s why we shouldn’t be too quick to celebrate
BYJessica Calarco
Lifestyle
Anyone still skeptical about the ‘Caitlin Clark effect’ should check out the record ticket prices for her matchup against Angel Reese on Sunday
BYSeamus Webster
Commentary
Men and women are now equally comfortable talking about age and partners—but a new survey shows money remains a gendered taboo
BYKrista Phillips
MPW
The share of Fortune 500 companies run by women CEOs stays flat at 10.4% as pace of change stalls
BYEmma Hinchliffe
Magazine
Rachel Romer built a $4.4 billion education unicorn by 34—then she had a stroke. Now her CEO successor reckons with Guild’s new chapter
BYEmma Hinchliffe
Commentary
Scouting America CEO: Our name change was long overdue—and today’s divisions prove the role we have to play is more important than ever
BYRoger Krone
Leadership
Melinda French Gates’s $1bn commitment to groups helping women and families breaks long lament that less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes there
BYThalia Beaty and The Associated Press
Health
Melinda French Gates says she will donate $1bn over the next 2 years on behalf of women and families—including for reproductive rights in the U.S.
BYMichelle Chapman and The Associated Press
Politics
Mexico prepares to elect first woman leader as millions of domestic workers wonder if it will improve ‘modern slavery’
BYMegan Janetsky and The Associated Press
Commentary
‘As quick as 5 minutes in California or as grueling as 11 hours in Texas’: Research reveals new post-Dobbs map of abortion access driving times
BYSara Estep
Commentary
We know very little about neurodivergent women—and they may be entirely overlooked at work
BYKaryn Twaronite
Politics
A Trump win makes the U.S. vulnerable to ‘loss of democracy risk,’ E. Jean Carroll’s attorney warns—starting with her client’s $83.3 million payout
BYFortune Editors
MPW
After vanquishing Trump in court, E. Jean Carroll urges women to focus on the presidential election
BYEllie Austin
Finance
Marathon Petroleum just named its first female CEO—and it’s showing a trend for the CFO as a C-suite powerplayer
BYSheryl Estrada
Commentary
Birthing mothers’ near-death experience rates are 100 times higher than maternal mortality—and we don’t even know exactly why
BYHolly Maloney and Maneesh Jain
MPW
The economy is moving us back into the 19th century as fertility rates plunge
BYSydney Lake
Commentary
Burned out and underappreciated, women’s career advancement had stalled long before the anti-DEI backlash
BYTacy M. Byham
Politics
‘An abuse of judicial discretion’: New York’s highest court overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction
BYMichael R. Sisak, Dave Collins, and others
Finance
Nobel laureate Esther Duflo proposes taxing 3,000 billionaires to protect the world’s poorest from climate change—and most Americans likely agree with the plan
BYSunny Nagpaul
Commentary
Immigration, productivity, inflation: Why finding the pandemic’s ‘missing women’ could be the solution to almost every challenge facing the U.S. economy today
BYKatica Roy
Commentary
The tax code is made for tradwives. Here’s how much it punishes dual-earning couples
BYRobert VerBruggen
Magazine
The CEO leading ‘Korea’s Google’ in its battle against Big Tech
BYNicholas Gordon
Tech
AI ‘apocalypse’ could wipe out 8 million jobs in the U.K.—women and Gen Z are most at risk
BYIrina Anghel and Bloomberg
Commentary
Taylor Swift’s AI porn deepfakes have prompted a wave of proposals to protect women from abuse–but Congress and the states need to take action
BYChristian F. Nunes
Features
Under Armour founder Kevin Plank is back as CEO, abruptly ending Stephanie Linnartz’s three-year turnaround plan two years early
BYMaria Aspan
Commentary
We analyzed 46 years of consumer sentiment data–and found that today’s ‘vibecession’ is just men starting to feel as bad about the economy as women historically have
BYAnwesha Majumder and Katherine Gallagher Robbins
Magazine
From stars to CEOs: The Hollywood power players launching businesses to tell women’s stories and upend Hollywood
BYEllie Austin
Tech
Big Tech’s big fear is a group of high-achieving European women: Meet the Avengers of female data regulators
BYStephanie Bodoni and Bloomberg
Success
Fortune 500 list: The top 10 companies dominating business
BYSunny Nagpaul

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