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Women in Global Health is an organization and a movement [1] that advocates for inclusive gender equity in health [2] by challenging power and privilege. [3] It is the largest community of its kind, with 40 chapters worldwide, working to put the power into the hands women of all backgrounds to create real change across the health sector.
This is a list of women CEOs of the Fortune 500, based on the magazine's 2024 list (updated yearly). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of Sept. 2024, women were CEOs at 10.4% of Fortune 500 companies. Fortune 500 women CEOs as of 2024 (52 women)
The Women Leaders in Global Health Conference, created by Michele Barry and first held in 2017 at Stanford University in partnership with Women in Global Health, the US National Institutes of Health and others, is an international conference that engages both men and women to address the gender gap in global health leadership.
However, the quota may not have altered the way women progress through organizations. In 2013, Norway's public companies had 41% female board representation but women made up only 5.8% of general managers at the public companies. [84] In the same year, at the CEO level, only 6% of listed companies in Norway had a female CEO. [85]
Women continue to dominate in nursing. In 2000, 94.6% of registered nurses in the United States were women. [53] In health care professions as a whole in the US, women numbered approximately 14.8 million, as of 2011. [54] Biomedical research and academic medical professions—i.e., faculty at medical schools—are also disproportionately male.
International Women's Health Coalition – founded 1984, based in New York to advocate for issues pertaining to women's health, this foundation also helps bring to light severe issues such as the stigmatization of women's health; International Women's Suffrage Alliance – major suffrage organization
The programs of NCHL are supported primarily through membership fees contributed by organizational members. [1] Participants in NCHL's membership programs vary based on the specific program, but they generally involve leaders who are responsible for a specific leadership activity within their own health system or university, such as healthcare leadership development, international healthcare ...
Margaret Chan (born 1947), Chinese (Hong Kong) health specialist, director-general of the World Health Organization; Dong Mingzhu, business executive, president of Gree Electric; Ping Fu, Chinese-American entrepreneur, founder of Geomagic; Gu Kailai (born 1958), former lawyer, businesswoman