Barclays’ Women in Leadership Total Return Index, which consists of American companies with a female CEO or whose proportion of female board members is at least 25 percent, is one of number of new funds that aims to capitalize on the finding that companies with female leaders tend to outperform those where women are relatively absent.
Constant Supervision & Feminism
It was early 2000s and I was watching some serial or other when I saw the following for the umpteenth time: a sympathetically portrayed mother loses her child because she “just looked away for 1 second!” Whether the child was ultimately recovered for not, the implicit message was clear. Children need constant, vigilant, 24/7 supervision. Regardless of the show, it was nearly always a working mom shown in this predicament. Occasionally a stay at home mom would be similarly afflicted, never a dad.
I was a woman in my 20s and the target audience for the shows. I may have been swayed if I hadn’t grown up latch key in the crime ridden NYC of the 1980s and reaped the awards. I spent entire summer days at playgrounds on the wrong side of Prospect Park. I rode the subway alone at 8 y.o. Before reaching middle school, my cousin and I had ventured off to Coney Island with nothing but our swimsuits and a $5.00 bill for emergencies. By high school, I had library cards for Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan and was intoxicated at the thought that NYC belonged to me.
Instead of being swayed by the message, I recognized it as a backlash against feminism. As women poured entered the workforce, the standards for mothering ratcheted higher and higher until they became impossible to meet unless a woman devotes her entire self to parenting or can pay others to do it. The trap now has the sharp teeth of the criminal justice system. And, men are being caught too.
How Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe hacked Metcalfe’s Law
We sent her all over the country,” Munoz told me this week. “Her pitch was pretty genius. She would go to chapters of her sorority, do her presentation, and have all the girls at the meetings install the app. Then she’d go to the corresponding brother fraternity—they’d open the app and see all these cute girls they knew.” Tinder had fewer than 5,000 users before Wolfe made her trip, Munoz says; when she returned, there were some 15,000. “At that point, I thought the avalanche had started,” Munoz says.
How “Frozen” took over the World
And their lawyers allowed the music to spread naturally through social media. “The fact that Disney didn’t crack down on the millions of YouTube tributes, the fact that it’s been played everywhere, feeds back into the phenomenon,” Kaufman says.
.. It’s pre-approved for admiration by adults, not just children. Part of the movie’s success, then, may have just as much to do with parents as with kids. Kids aren’t just liking it more; parents are taking their kids to see it more.