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The most popular ✊Boss Betty✊ stories of 2020
Here are the most-read Boss Betty stories of 2020, from our listicle on the woman helming TikTok to the allegations of gender bias at Pinterest. We’re endlessly grateful to our ❤️beloved❤️ readers for your support — if you don’t get the Boss Betty newsletter, sign up here, and, subscribe for just $5 a month to help fund our journalism!
#1👉 15 things to know about TikTok’s CEO Vanessa Pappas, leader of the 15-second video revolution: A man in a cardboard box “scuttling” around his home like a crab was the first TikTok Pappas ever watched…
#2👉 Where are all the women-owned firms on the list of PPP loan recipients?: Just 16% of aid beneficiaries providing demographic data are female-owned, under 3% of those companies are owned by Black women
#3👉 The workplace reckoning for white feminism: A roundup of who’s out: Increasingly powerful public rejection of systemic racism has led to high-profile exits across media, retail, nonprofits and other sectors
#4👉 What will post-pandemic, Equal Pay Day 2021 look like?: Given the ways COVID-19 is wreaking its particular havoc, the economic gender gap could grow even wider
#5👉 Clorox’s new CEO Linda Rendle makes for a record 38 women helming Fortune 500 companies: Outgoing CEO Benno Dorer informed the board of his decision to step down on Friday
#6👉 Career anatomy: The resumé of Wall Street’s first woman CEO, Jane Fraser: Fraser will be the first woman to lead a major U.S. bank when she takes on the mantle of Citi CEO this February
#7👉 Warner Music Group posts about fighting racial inequality, IPOs with zero BIPOC among 18 top execs & board members: The company’s all-white, 11-person board has only 1 woman
#8👉 How to brag better: Choosing the right words for fearless self-promotion: Talking about your accomplishments is scary and overwhelming, but it’s vital for your career
#9👉 By the numbers: The burden carried by Black women workers: Former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns remains the only Black woman ever to helm a Fortune 500 company
#10👉 Ousted Pinterest COO files gender bias suit: Female execs ‘are marginalized, excluded, and silenced’: Francoise Brougher alleges gender discrimination and retaliation in the lawsuit
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