| CNBC Make It explores women's advancement in work | | | | YOU MAY ALSO LIKE | Fewer than one in five students at the University of Tokyo are women. This disturbing number is a reflection of the gender inequality that exists in Japan "where women are still not expected to achieve as much as men and sometimes hold themselves back from educational opportunities." "At Japan's Most Elite University, Just 1 in 5 Students Is a Woman" (The New York Times)
Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg launched a global movement in August 2018 when she started protesting out front of the Swedish Parliament in an effort to bring attention to the need for climate change. Since then, she's met with the heads of state at the U.N., met with the pope and inspired more than four million people to join the global climate strike this past September. Her global efforts have led her to be named Time's Person of the Year. "TIME 2019 Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg" (TIME)
The Grammy Awards is working to reinvent itself after facing backlash two years ago for comments made by then-leader, Neil Portnow, about women needing to "step up" in order to be recognized in the music industry. With Deborah Dugan as the new president and CEO of the Recording Academy, members behind the awards ceremony say they have "concrete goals to ensure that women and people of color move toward equal footing." "Grammys Pledge More Diversity Under New Leadership" (NPR)
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