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True Gender Equality Is Still 151 Years Away—Despite Recent Milestones

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18, 2019, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed the 221st spacewalk in support of the International Space Station’s maintenance and assembly, and marked the first all-female spacewalk in history. Nearly 60 years later, on Oct. Charpentier and Doudna received the Nobel for their work on the technology of genome editing.

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Betting His Company’s Future On The Metaverse

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has invested billions into his goal of creating a functioning and high-res metaverse , but it’s unclear of whether it will pay off, as some experts have said the early hype around the metaverse and lack of game-changing products have since turned consumers off. billion in 2020, and $4.5 billion in 2019.

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When It Come to Employee Mental Health, These 10 Companies Are Setting the Example

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The company’s website states, “Our goal is to create a team that is caring and motivated to improve the accounting profession and positively change the lives of accountants.” The Wait Until 8th movement is all about community,” says founder Brooke Shannon in a 2019 interview with Institute for Family Studies. “We

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” The 2019 “ State of Women-Owned Businesses Report ” from American Express finds women-owned businesses “now represent 42% of all businesses—nearly 13 million—employing 9.4

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna. She recently won the 2023 Waterfront Award for Science and Technology and was recognized as one of White Page International’s Top 100 Asian Women Power Leaders. Karwanna D.

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How big a deal is 1.5°C vs. 2°C of global warming? Significant — here’s why

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The essential goal of the Paris agreement of 2015 has been to limit the rise in average global temperatures to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels — a time period centered roughly on the mid-19th century. Ten percent of iconic Giant Sequoia trees died in wildfires in the Sierra Nevada in 2020. Melting Arctic sea ice.

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Leading with Kindness: 14 Most Charitable Celebrities

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Chance the Rapper’s 2023 started with a free music festival he organized in Ghana for around 52,000 people, and he’s working on something similar to take place in Jamaica next year. Chance the Rapper was featured in the July/August 2023 issue of SUCCESS. Kendra Scott was featured in the April 2016 issue of SUCCESS.

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