Difference Tag

There have been greater than 1,000 IPOs on the U.S. stock market in 2021. Amongst those corporations, only seven were female-led, said Jessica Alba, who took the business she cofounded, The Honest Company, public in May of last 12 months. “I feel very passionately that there’s something that might be done on this space,” she continued, sitting in her office in Los Angeles. “And I’ve gone deep in my team in understanding how bad it's, really, for ladies.” She has the stats in mind. “It’s 0.6 percent of the businesses,” she said, of female-led initial public offerings in 2021. “Over 60 percent of people that come into the workplace are women, but only around 14 percent find yourself in leadership.” If women participated within...