All-women and mixed-gender US fund teams outperformed all-male portfolio management teams so far this year, according to a Goldman Sachs analysis that raises fresh questions about the investment industry’s progress in addressing its gender diversity problems. Women-led funds remain a rarity across the investment industry.

Kamala Harris, 55, is the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated for national office by a major party, and only the fourth woman in history to be chosen for one of their presidential tickets.

New CIO Michelle Grover joins Twilio after previously serving as SVP of software development at SAP Concur. “As someone who is a big believer of working in service to others, I could not be more thrilled to be joining Twilio at a time when Covid-19 has given us such an enormous opportunity to make a difference as a company.”

Congrats to Aicha Evans, CEO of the self-driving technology development company!

Demand that your company shift from viewing racial equity and diversity as a partisan issue, and commit to changing the internal ideas, cultures, and practices that got us here in the first place. Racial equity and racial justice are not add-ons that help you hire, make good marketing, and make more money. Commit to no longer separating them from the centrality of your work.

In light of #AhmaudArbery and ongoing police violence, how can the Asian and Asian American community show up for our Black siblings? This is just a handful of things we can do. The most important is that you don’t remain silent or idle while Black people get murdered senselessly. You can do this. We can do this.

The woman behind India’s first testing kit is virologist Minal Dakhave Bhosale, Mylab’s research and development chief. She led the team that designed the coronavirus testing kit called Patho Detect, said it was done “in record time” – six weeks instead of three or four months. She submitted the kit for evaluation by the National Institute of Virology on March 18th, just a day before delivering her daughter.

Well that escalated quickly. We published Fu Face Mask pattern at the end of last month, hoping it would be helpful. Now, hospitals are actively reaching out to people to beg them to make fabric face masks for their staff. Go and make a bunch. Our healthcare workers are counting on you!.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told CNN she is starting the year “cancer free,” after suffering from a series of health complications in recent years. The 86-year-old is the longest-serving member of the court’s liberal wing and has been treated for cancer twice in just over a year, including a treatment that forced her to miss oral arguments for the first time in her career.

Lack of diversity in the informal networks of white managers are important factors in lack of advancement reported by anyone who isn’t white. A recent report says that 21% of Americans rarely interact with someone of a different race or ethnicity.