Numerous studies show women are paid less than their male counterparts. This is a key challenge for companies as they face reputational risk, consumer backlash, new legislation and governmental and employee lawsuits. Just the perception of a gender pay gap can make it hard to recruit or keep top talent. 

We've made some updates to our gender equality fund rankings, and added new options to our settings.

Fast Company‘s third annual World Changing Ideas Awards drew nearly 2,000 submissions across 17 categories. Fast Company editors and reporters created lists of honorable mentions and finalists, and then our panel of judges picked winners in each category. You can read more about the winners here.

“Data can be sexist.” That was one of Bill and Melinda Gates’ biggest surprises of last year, described in their 2019 Annual Letter.