I want every little girl — every child, really — out there to know this is what a venture-backed CEO negotiating for tens of million of dollars looks like.

One obvious reason is childcare. If the US spent just the average world amount on programs like paid-family leave & subsidized childcare (we currently spend well below), American women wouldn’t be 17th in labor participation anymore. We’d be 11th. Still not great, but better.

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It's incredible to me that Figs had no competitors and IPOed today: sometimes no one caring about women is a business superpower.

0/ For this week’s childcare update, I want to do something a little different and highlight this incredible report from The Holding Co. and Melinda French Gates' Pivotal Ventures investin.care

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Came across this UN report when researching women in the media for a Forbes piece. The stats are staggering. unwomen.org/en/digital-lib…

Join Foreign Policy's editor in chief, Ravi Agrawal, Russia and foreign-policy expert Angela Stent, and foreign-policy analyst Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦 Friday 2/25 at 11 AM ET for a discussion of the latest developments in Ukraine and the West’s response. buff.ly/3shZ3HS

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Jefferies to donate March 2 trading revenue to Ukraine relief effort reut.rs/3vxkOFH

Don't feel hopeless. We have the power to protect the reproductive freedom of women in Pennsylvania. We have to vote. joshshapiro.org/act

A clip from Don’t Look Up, and then a real TV interview that just happened

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Founders of Springbank, a new $35M vc fund, cite data to support their POV that the caregiving market is huge ($650B+), investing in startups here can make $, bring women into the workforce & boost the US economy to boot. Springbank Collective venturecapital.cmail19.com/t/d-e-vmjha-jr… our convo WSJ Venture Capital

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