Rock the Street, Wall Street and founder Maura Cunningham Featured on the TODAY Show Rock the Street, Wall Street, a program founded by Maura Cunningham, is inspiring young girls across the country to embrace their interest in math. NBC’s Savannah Sellers sat down with Cunningham to learn more about the her mission to provide mentorship…

Mind the 100 Year Gap World Economic Forum 2020 Gender Gap Study None of us will see gender parity in our lifetimes, and nor likely will many of our children. That’s the sobering finding of the Global Gender Gap Report 2020, which reveals that gender parity will not be attained for 99.5 years. Just 1.3%…

Why Do the Oscars Keep Shutting Women Out of Best Director? This One Academy Rule Helps Explain It Eliana Dockterman for TIME Though the entire Academy votes on which nominees in all categories will win an actual Oscar, each branch votes on the nominees for its specific category. So the Academy doesn’t choose the Best Director nominees….

The Challenges that Working Mothers Still Face Sue Shellenbarger for The Wall Street Journal Work-family remedies aren’t really remedies unless they reach a larger proportion of working parents. While access to paid family leave is growing, only about 16% of private-sector workers in the U.S. have it. In a Year of Notable Deaths, a World…

A Midwife in North Country Emily Bobrow for The New Yorker This article is near and dear to me today as I await the birth of my second child. My first baby was born at home under the care of a Certified Professional Midwife, and all signs look good for another homebirth this time around….

As another calendar year comes to a close, here are the most read posts on the Belle Curve in 2019. Thank you for following along, reading, and sharing your comments. Investing and financial planning specific topics ranked high on the list, and I will try to focus more on these areas in 2020. Yield Curve…

Insurers grow wary of ‘high risk’ executives in wake of #MeToo movement Susan Antilla for CNBC The #MeToo movement is forcing insurers who provide coverage for high-profile executives accused of sexual harassment and assault, such as disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, to rethink their business.   The Top 20 Female Portfolio Managers in the US…

Barack Obama – Women are Better Leaders than Men Saira Asher for BBC News “I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything… living standards and outcomes.” Wall Street says it cares about diversity. But…

Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world’s youngest Prime Minister BBC News Alphabet Adds Nobel Prize Winning Chemist Arnold to Board – bringing the total number of female directors to three Bloomberg Earlier this year, Robin Washington, outgoing chief financial officer of Gilead Sciences Inc., joined the Alphabet board as longtime chairman Eric Schmidt…

Do Something Outrageous! Gloria Steinem talks anger and survival Heather Wood Rudulph for The Riveter Just about every woman, whether a parent or child-free, worries about girls. We all live in the same world that victimizes and vilifies them and holds them up as beacons of hope while stripping them of their voices, and their…