The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit sided with the California math consultant at the center of Rizo v. Fresno County Office of Education, which argued that considering prior compensation when setting a worker’s pay perpetuates gender disparities and defies the spirit of the Equal Pay Act.

One of the biggest causes of the gender pay gap? Having a baby between the ages of 25 and 35. Timing makes a big difference in the effect of childbearing on a woman’s earning prospects, research shows. Even in families in which both parents work full time, women spend almost double the time as men on child care and housework.

Goal to double the % of women in VC partner roles over the next decade, and increase total VC funding to female founders from 15% to 25% in five years.

The first female speaker of the House has become the most effec­tive congressional leader of modern times—and, not coinciden­tally, the most vilified. Her experience offers an irony and a warning: For women politicians to succeed, they must defeat and outmaneuver men. Yet the better at it they are, the more detested they become.

From the  list of 30 companies who meet #BoardForward minimum of diversity, we have also identified 6 companies (3 public and 3 private) who went above and beyond — and are truly worth celebrating: Stitch Fix, Hewlett-Packard, Verizon, Kickstarter, SurveyMonkey, Slack.

Don’t miss this fantastic podcast interview with Therese Tucker, BlackLine CEO and founder, by investor and founder of Backstage Capital Arlan Hamilton – about entrepreneurship, pride, taking her company public (“it’s like a wedding!”), not raising capital and more.

11 year old Naomi Wadler spoke on behalf of all of the “African-American girls whose stories don’t make the front page of every national newspaper.” She led a walkout at her elementary school on March 14 as part of the national effort to bring attention to gun violence in American schools. She said she and her peers stood outside for 18 minutes, a minute longer than many schools around the country had planned to walkout. They added a minute, she said, for Courtlin Arrington, a black girl who was killed in a school shooting in Alabama after the massacre in Parkland.

Adi. Katrina. Anne. These “unicorns”—companies valued at more than $1 billion—do exist, and their female CEOs are sharing how they built their empires.

Too little, too late — $10M Uber class action settlement for 420 engineers who identified as women or people of color claiming the employer practiced discriminatory pay. Three female software engineers filed a lawsuit against the company, saying Uber’s compensation practices were discriminatory.

Research conducted at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management suggests diversity boosts creative debate that prevents teams from falling into the groupthink trap and leads to more explored, informed decisions. Equally as important, a diverse workforce can quickly flag when a company does something culturally insensitive — and, honestly, prevent the company from nearing those situations entirely.