This blog is about women's issues seen from the perspective of a man and about some women I admire.

August 6, 2018

IBM’S GINNI ROMETTY

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

THE WOMAN WHO COULD CHANGE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE

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

GEM, OUT TO CONQUER THE WORLD

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

THOSE LUCKY LITTLE NORDIC BABIES

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

THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE STARTUP IS A CHINESE RIDE SHARING GIANT, RUN BY 39-YEAR-OLD JEAN LIU

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, CEO OF FRENCH ENERGIE GIANT ENGIE

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

FLOR DE TOLOACHE, THE FEMALE MARIACHI FROM NEW YORK

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

I LOOK LIKE A SURGEON

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

HOTELS FOR WOMEN

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 […]

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