Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Space Travel and... gender equality? (via Passle)

There has been much discussion in the last few days about the announcement by the World Economic Forum that it predicts it will take 117 more years until we achieve gender parity in the workplace. It seems crazy that in today's workforce, which is driving developments like self-driving cars, gaming-genius AI, and making hoverboards a reality, we still don't have gender equality. Research published recently by EY makes a compelling case for businesses to do more in terms of tackling existing inequalities: data shows that more diverse company boards command higher share prices and improved financial performance; balanced leadership increases a company's productivity and nationally a country's GDP can be lifted by reducing the gender gap. Another piece of research that looked at start-ups receiving Series A funding in the Bay Area in 2015, showed that only 8% of firms were led by women - that's 16 out of 204 start-ups. And this figure was down by 30% from the previous year.