#gender-equity

#gender-equity

There is hope. Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party (JIP), have released an agreement that pledges to "substantially expand" grants for scientific research and to "establish a system granting legal effect to the use of maiden names". Both are promising for researchers, but the future of Japanese science will depend on how these policies are implemented.

This year, the number of women in the workforce has fallen by 500,000, while the number of men rose by nearly 400,000. That statistic tells us something is very broken. We've built systems that aren't working, and women are bearing the brunt of it. I believe that if we're bold enough to rethink how work works-if we make it more flexible, more fair, more inclusive-then we're not just helping women. We're unlocking opportunity for everyone.

The San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women is needed now, perhaps more so than ever before in its history, and we urge members of the Commission Streamlining Task Force to maintain it as a standalone body with its full powers intact. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, California women who are full-time wage and salary workers still earn significantly less than men.

The labor deal will govern what WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert called the league's 'hypergrowth,' a moment of huge new valuations, a $2.2 billion media rights deal set to kick in next year.

"If I had a traditional 9-to-5 or 8:30-to-5:30 job and I had to be in the office, it wouldn't be possible. I'd be paying for before-school care. I'd be paying for after-school care. It just wouldn't logistically work," she told Fortune.