| CNBC Make It explores women's advancement in work | | | | YOU MAY ALSO LIKE | Education software start-up Guild Education announced this week that it had closed $157 million in a Series D funding round. The company, which was founded in 2015 by Stanford graduates Brittany Stich and Rachel Carlson, is one of very few female-led companies to reach a $1 billion valuation "Guild Education Is Latest Female-Led Company To Hit $1 Billion Valuation" (Forbes)
In 2011, Harvard Business School lecturer and real estate investor Nori Gerardo Lietz released a report showing that "women held just 4 percent of senior investment roles at major real estate investment firms." Though that number hasn't improved much, according to Lietz, there are women in the field today who "are pushing to establish more senior roles for themselves." "'She Build': Creating an All-Women Real Estate Development Team" (The New York Times)
When looking at the combined companies on the S&P 500 and the Fortune 1000 list, a total of 26 firms have at least 50% women on their boards. Though that number is progress from previous years, "the fact remains that, in 2019, women still hold fewer than a third of board seats at the majority of large public and private U.S. companies." "More women are on big company boards, but the numbers are still shockingly low" (CNN Business)
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