Krawcheck stays motivated by the satisfaction of proving her naysayers wrong and helping women build wealth. For everything else, there’s walks, cooking, and wine.

A DTC diaper brand that’s pioneering new production methods is expanding to Target amid growing interest in clean and natural baby products.

Women average about 52 minutes per day caring for children and other family members.

Women’s sports have been raking in new deals and partnerships in the U.S. and beyond.

The FDA has just approved zuranolone, a new treatment for postpartum depression and major depressive disorder.

“Our Body” spends 169 moving, spellbinding minutes roving the halls, exam rooms and operating theaters of a hospital’s gynecology ward.

The approval of the first-ever pill treating postpartum depression was hailed as a significant milestone, but it was quickly tempered by questions around how much the drug will cost.

Caraway, a platform offering virtual mental, reproductive and physical care to women and all members of Gen Z, raised a $16.75 million Series A.

This trend is emerging as an increasing number of companies step forward to provide assistance for treatments such as IVF.

The percentage of women-identifying founders in health tech rose from about 15% in 2015 to nearly 22% in 2022.

While the company has now raised just under $17 million, when Claire Coder started it, the topic of period poverty wasn’t a popular one, making it challenging to gain financial and practical support.

A year in the making, the reportedly $100 million marketing-hype cycle has built up almost unprecedented awareness and interest in both the film and the brand.

Bobbie infant formula CEO Laura Modi joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss her company’s recent acquisition and continued growth.

The move could significantly expand access to contraception. The pill is expected to be available in early 2024.

Over the past two years, the infant formula startup Bobbie has grown to reach $100 million in revenue, feed 300,000 babies, and serve more than 5% of the non-WIC U.S. formula market.

Only 2% of venture capital dollars went to startups founded by all-women teams, and over 80% of VC investments went to all-men founding teams in 2022.

The maker of Julie, an FDA-approved emergency contraceptive, is providing support to historically underserved communities with a new 1:1 donation program.

Women’s health can be both mission-driven and business-driven. As the business case for fertility solutions has exploded, there is hope that the business case will be seen for other areas of women’s health.

U.S. VC funding for female-founded or co-founded companies has been trending up in recent years, and 2022 saw the creation of several women-led funds, incubators for female founders and more new companies.

Even in wealthy nations, research and development for women’s health is woefully underfunded. While women are half the world’s population, only 1% of health care research spending goes toward female-specific conditions not related to cancer.

Essential insights for building companies in the care space.

FemTech is projected to reach a market value of more than $103 billion by 2030.

Caraway’s fundraise illustrates clearly what VCs are finding attractive in the digital health sector, and the types of startups that may find traction in today’s climate.

Research company QuestionPro estimates that the superstar could add a staggering $4.6 billion in consumer spending to the U.S. economy as she supercharges business at each of the 47 stops on her tour.

A groundswell of support for women’s health in the wake of Roe’s reversal — and starkly poor public performance of generalist health tech companies — has investors turning to women-focused startups.

First-time fund managers Courtney Leimkuhler, Elana Berkowitz and Jen Lee Koss of the Springbank Collective closed a $35 million fund focused on serving the overlooked needs of women and working families — a $1 trillion opportunity.

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that OB/GYNs are concerned about the negative effects the ruling has had on maternal care.

Dozens of women seeking to become mothers came to a fertility clinic at Yale. A five-part narrative series explores the shocking events that unfolded there.

Research has only just begun to investigate how age is used to justify bias and discrimination specifically against women. Gendered ageism sits at the intersection of age and gender bias and is a double whammy where there is “no right age” for professional women.

A comprehensive directory of some of the nation’s top wealth management professionals

Never before have we parented in such isolation.

These founders face increased challenges getting funded because VC firms have historically excluded and overlooked them.

Employers are more than twice as likely as female employees (71% vs. 32%) to have a positive perception of their company culture regarding menopause.

What is a menopause-friendly workplace? Women in cities like New York may soon find out, as U.S. companies adopt practices that were already spreading in Britain.

Just 7% of venture-backed companies that disclose sales ever reach $100 million in revenue, and even fewer are headed by women. Bobbie managed it in a market that used to begin and end with Similac, Enfamil and Gerber Good Start.

In conversation with Tracee Ellis Ross, Ginni Rometty, Cathie Wood and more founders, executives and leaders.

Women are especially worried about retirement. Those surveyed support changes to boost Social Security and a government-provided retirement plan.

Why investing in female leaders in healthcare can increase returns and improve health outcomes.

The ranking of corporate boards considers several criteria: independence, financial performance and tenure of board members. Another metric, the diversity of boards, is also front and center.

Over the last three decades, the major health risks facing U.S. adolescents have shifted drastically: Teen pregnancy and alcohol, cigarette and drug use have fallen while anxiety, depression, suicide and self-harm have soared.

To understand the dynamics of the industry and articulate a way forward, BCG surveyed more than 2,500 working caregivers with children below age 5 in March 2023. We asked them, “What would it look like if the childcare system was built in a way that felt customized to your needs?”

The findings indicated an “urgent” need for expanded crisis services, according to the team of researchers and physicians who published the report.

With caregiving needs only projected to grow, more stable resources will be essential to getting ahead of what could otherwise be a caregiving-driven exodus of women from the workforce.

Even when earnings are similar, husbands spend more time on paid work and leisure, while wives devote more time to caregiving and housework.

A dive into the data and a call to action.

Artificial intelligence will revolutionize how we handle electronic health records, improving communication between patients and healthcare providers.

The problem wasn’t that there was too much diversity at Silicon Valley Bank — it was the opposite. It didn’t have enough diversity in its business model.

Government support for child care would help ensure a “robust labor force” because parents are often prevented from working due to its costs, said Cecilia Rouse, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

The biggest disparities were among financial managers, where women's weekly earnings averaged $1,468 while men's averaged $2,116.

Federal paid leave policies, along with boundaries in the workplace and a reliable support system, can help alleviate the mental burden many working moms are feeling.

Bobbie expands its product offering and supports more American babies with high-quality, domestically manufactured organic infant formula.

“What most VC funds are doing is trying to predict future trends,” founding partner Carli Sapir says. “What we’re doing is trying to invest in companies that are filling immediate needs. We know these companies have strong growth opportunities.”

Since the start of the pandemic, women, particularly women of color, have become the leading drivers of business creation in the U.S.

The gap persists even as women are outpacing men in college graduation and enrollment rates — in fact, the gap between women and men with a college degree is not any narrower than the one between women and men without a college degree.

Women investors are twice as likely to finance companies with female founders, and three times as likely to finance companies with women CEOs, but the pool of women venture capitalists remains shallow: a 2020 report from Women in VC showed that 5.6 percent of U.S. VC firms are women-led.

At some point in the previous year, two-thirds of low-income women could not afford period products, and half said they had to choose between buying food or period products.

Global brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola and Delta are coming together to elevate investment in women’s sports.

The pay gap has only narrowed 2 cents since 2002.

Overall, nearly half of the women who responded were less likely to want to have a child or more likely to want to delay having a child. These women were more likely to be younger, women of color, parenting one child and to have experienced loss of income.

Springbank Collective Founding Partner Courtney Leimkuhler joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow to discuss how the companies in their portfolio are building the infrastructure to close the gender gap — addressing the long-overlooked needs of women, caregivers and working families.

The bias against mothers at work stems in part from the unspoken expectation that employees should work without any indication of their life outside of work.

The concept of Impostor Syndrome has become ubiquitous. Critics, and even the idea’s originators, question its value.

When Ellen DaSilva, the co-founder and CEO of Summer Health, had kids, she began to realize that pediatric care is broken.

How much would you pay for childcare to stay at work?

More than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, according to the CDC, and including midwives can help. Oula’s collaborative care model brings together doctors and midwives. The startup‘s patients have fewer cesareans and other preterm deliveries.

The seventh annual ranking of Forbes/SHOOK Top Women Wealth Advisors features 1,697 women collectively managing assets of nearly $2.3 trillion.

“If you want to breastfeed your baby, but you need to be away from that baby for more than a few hours at a time, a breast pump becomes a necessity,” says Babyation founder Samantha Rudolph. “So, to see dairy cows have newer technology than human women — that’s absurd.”

Hiring moms is good for business. Yet women remain underrepresented in the workplace, especially when it comes to leadership.

When Cleo’s Chief Business Officer Sarahjane Sacchetti’s stepfather was diagnosed with ALS, the impact of that diagnosis on her own life came as a shock.

Moms are also more likely than dads to say being a parent is stressful and tiring all or most of the time. And they’re generally more likely than fathers to say they feel judged for how they parent their children.

Julie to partner with over 20 organizations nationwide, providing access to the more than 19 million women living in contraceptive deserts across the United States.

Icon provides workers with a personal retirement plan that never requires a rollover. The plan travels with the saver without having to change the investments or the plan.

The data shows that female founders have long been going where the opportunity is — and that they’re building valuable technology companies.

The process is an intense and arduous journey for many women, riddled with uncertainty.

The market is flooding with high-profile, well-funded menopause-related beauty products and telemedicine start-ups, as well as a growing roster of celebrities willing to admit it’s happening to them. There’s the potential not only for a big cultural shift to happen, but for some number of people to profit off it.

Founded in 2019, the biotech startup has been producing immune-supporting proteins primarily for use in its synthetic infant milk, but also for use in other foodstuffs.

Healthybaby founder Shazi Visram is applying the plant-based, organic model of her former baby food company Happy Family Organics to a new category — diapers.

The care economy is a vast ecosystem where families, employers and institutions come together to support the young, the old and the sick. This support is necessary for the functioning of a healthy society, and it underpins every part of the economy. We can ignore it no longer.

Female investors account for just 16.1% of VC decision-makers in the US. Furthermore, 95.5% of VC firms have a majority male population of decision-makers.

Women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rates we’ve ever seen, and ambitious young women are prepared to do the same.

The success female athletes are having in the endorsement deal market can have big implications for future funding of women’s collegiate sports, from corporate partnership deals to media rights and university budgets.

Olivia Walton joins a panel discussion on how we can close the gender gap in the workplace, investments and beyond.

Hearth Display wants to help families manage tasks and chores by putting a giant 27-inch touch screen display in your home.

Neuroscience shows that new parents undergo changes in their brains that allow them to be more present, empathize with others and collaborate more effectively — all important leadership skills.

The number of women leading billion-dollar startups increased by 400 percent in six years. Meet the changemakers who launched female-led unicorn companies and challenged the status quo every step of the way.

According to Crunchbase data, a total of 595 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board last year, far exceeding the numbers in prior years. Of these, 83 were founded or co-founded by women, more than quadrupling that category’s count from 2020.

Attn: Grace has taken on the mission of making over a $2.5 billion market for the aging woman, particularly the baby boomer cohort, by celebrating and nurturing the body that has carried her through the years.

Healthy women are the backbone of a resilient, stable, and thriving society.

Bobbie CEO and co-founder Laura Modi joined “CBS Mornings” to discuss how her organic formula is shaking up the industry. Modi discussed how her personal experiences with feeding her child inspired the company.

The Ellevest Women’s Financial Health Index provides an overview of well-being that is easily understood and tracked over time.

Menopause is a $600B+ opportunity that is still largely untapped.

An interview with Dr. David Sable, OB/GYN, professor and life sciences investor.

Leta Stetter Hollingworth was a trailblazing psychologist and champion of women’s rights. But a century after the 19th Amendment, equality has a long way to go.

The women who are working to change the VC world.

“It’s about being a good enough parent,” says Stanford University sociologist Marianne Cooper, “and having some kind of balance between spending all of your time at work or all of your time at home.”

“Waiting on male investors to invest in women’s health clearly hasn’t been working.”