This Week in Women

Women fund managers beat men at stock picks, Goldman finds

“Even after adjusting for risk, female-managed funds have outperformed their counterparts amid the pandemic-related market swings,” Goldman strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a note to clients.

Women closing the pay gap with men, at least when newly hired

Data from Brad Hershbein, an economist at the Upjohn Institute, largely supports a research paper from Rakesh Kochhar at Pew Research Center earlier this year which showed average hourly wages for females jumped 45% between 1980 and 2018, compared with 14% for males.

Covid-19 has nearly destroyed the childcare industry – and it might be too late to save it

 

Interviews with more than half a dozen daycare operators from across the country reveal why so many centers may never re-open: Even before the pandemic, they said, overhead costs were immense, whereas profit margins were just enough to get by. In this pandemic era, everything has simply gotten worse.

The Met hires its first full-time Native American curator

Before coming to the National Museum of the American Indian, which is part of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Norby was the director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry, a research library in Chicago.

“This is a time of significant evolution for the museum,” Patricia Marroquin Norby said in a statement.Credit…Scott Rosenthal

Naomi Osaka and Victoria Azarenka face off in U.S. Open Final

What is it?

It’s the women’s final of the US Open at Flushing Meadows in New York.

When is it?

It’s this Saturday evening, so September 12, 2020.

What time does it start?

The players will make their way onto the Arthur Ashe Stadium at 9pm.

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