THE OUTSIDER
This blog is about women's issues seen from the perspective of a man and about some women I admire.
August 6, 2018
The DealBook Conferences are hosted by Andrew Ross Sorkin, who is a financial columnist for The New York Times. DealBook started in 2001 as a newsletter […]
August 6, 2018
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski has never had a boyfriend and she has never tried alcohol or smoking. Who needs that when you have much more important things […]
August 6, 2018
Time for some C-pop now. G.E.M. is a Hong Kong-based Chinese singer who is already a big star in most of Asia. At just 26 years […]
August 6, 2018
In Nordic countries taking care of the very young is considered a responsibility of society as a whole. Babies are not simply babies, they are considered […]
July 12, 2018
Her name is Jean Liu, she’s 39 years old and she’s the CEO of the world’s most valuable startup, a Beijing-based ride sharing company called DiDi. […]
July 10, 2018
Isabelle Kocher is the only woman CEO in the CAC 40, the benchmark French stock market index. CAC 40 companies include multinationals like Accor, Renault, Airbus, […]
July 9, 2018
Mariachi, as a musical expression, goes back a long time in Mexico. At least to the 18th century. Mariachi, however, really started becoming more popular in […]
July 9, 2018
This year’s Health, Medicine & the Body Issue of The New Yorker‘s magazine featured an illustration by London-based French artist Malika Favre. “Operating Theatre” shows a […]
November 18, 2012
A full 80% of all travel decisions today are taken by women. Sometimes they travel alone in business, sometimes they travel with the family and increasingly […]