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Women in business

  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Alice Ross
    Stop telling women they are cautious investors

    As the gender investment gap rises, it’s time to make lazy gender categorisations a thing of the past

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special Report
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    ‘Dad allies’ help shift childcare burden. Plus: the $10bn Black hair industry; Trump pushback hits US diversity efforts; how women can catch up on AI; businesswomen face surge in online abuse; career paths shaped by trauma; and why success can be a recipe for divorce

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Isabel Berwick
    Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up

    Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Can women’s career success be a recipe for divorce?

    Research has pinpointed some of the dynamics in a relationship that can lead to a breakdown

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Trump administration pushback hits US gender diversity efforts

    Prospects for greater equality in the president’s second term look bleak despite steady progress on many metrics during his first

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Rise of ‘dad allies’ helps shift childcare burden

    Research shows giving fathers adequate time off can help women’s careers, and in the UK men are campaigning for it

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    How trauma changed my career path

    Two women explain how harrowing events gave them a new perspective and even helped them grow as entrepreneurs

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Women business leaders face surge in online abuse

    The ‘special threat’ from male trolls online means it is essential to form a plan of action for when harassment starts

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  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    The business of Black hair: inside a $10bn global industry

    As demand for more inclusive, natural products grows, a booming market is grappling with politics and identity

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  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Special ReportThe Future of the Car
    Safety fears fuel the electric vehicle gender gap

    Range anxiety, threatening charging stations and ‘mansplaining’ marketing all affect uptake

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  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
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    Are female experts more credible?

    Public perception of stereotyped discrimination has one surprising outcome

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    Almost 60% of UK women complain of financial ‘mansplaining’, survey finds

    More than a quarter of those interviewed say they have been told how to budget by a man

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  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
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    How Shona Taine’s horological alchemy caught the eye of the elite

    The first woman to join the prestigious AHCI, she has honed her craft to produce a debut piece combining the traditional and futuristic

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  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
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    Annie Warburton: ‘How can Goldsmiths’ Company be good ancestors to the future?’

    As the organisation nears its 700th anniversary, its head wants it to be ‘more relatable’ as an industry showcase

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  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
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    Osaka Expo puts spotlight on gender equality

    Cartier’s Women’s Pavilion sits besides global efforts by other brands to advance female entrepreneurship

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  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Melissa Harrison
    Nature calling: ‘Does anyone know how hard it is to make an app?’

    Recording daily encounters with nature increases our connection to it. But could a writer more interested in owl pellets than AI be up to the task of creating an app to up the ante?

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  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Personal Finance
    The madness of the £100,000 childcare tax trap

    With some parents requiring a 50 per cent pay rise to mitigate the effects of the threshold, the trap is zapping productivity

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  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Hannah Bernard
    Female-led start-ups are increasingly starved of funding

    Investment decisions in the UK follow the same outdated patterns — even in booming AI

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  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Workplace diversity & equality
    Trailblazer Laura Mueller makes history as F1’s first female race engineer

    The Haas appointment marks a milestone in a sport where female talent has long been under-represented

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  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    ‘Gender numeracy gap’ is hitting women’s earnings power

    One in three UK women say they would not apply for jobs that require working with numbers or data

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  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    Pilita Clark
    The sobering new state of feminism

    Support for female equality is edging up but going backwards among young men

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  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Sheryl Sandberg
    The secret to a strong economy is women

    I’ve seen first-hand that when you tap the talents of the whole population you draw from the very best available

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  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Isabel Berwick
    Time for a workplace reset based on respect for colleagues

    Perhaps we can take our collective wisdom and create something new out of this DEI crisis

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  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Home front: making the struggle to juggle fairer

    No-prep meals, a childcare app and patience are part of the armoury for combining kids and careers

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  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Wanted: more female voices in venture finance

    The lack of funding for women-led start-ups is both well-known and obstinately low

    A panel discussion on “Female Founders in AI” takes place in a modern event space, with four women seated on stage and a large audience in attendance
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