The link between mental health and financial literacy; FemTech Market Map of Southeast Asia 2021; Beyond VC: The fundraising alternatives for Europe's startups + more
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Open any newspaper and you will see a jarring disconnect. Headlines continue to draw attention to women and young people still struggling with the impact the global pandemic has had on our overall well-being. Women have reported greater financial anxiety than men since before COVID-19 hit. We still earn less than men doing the same jobs. Pandemic or not, we are likelier to be unpaid caregivers for children and aging or ill loved ones. And of course, the United States is the only rich nation in the world that guarantees no paid time for adopting or giving birth to a child, leaving most women scrambling for a way to cover maternity leave.
Education has an important role to play in arming women with the baseline knowledge needed to not just manage their daily finances but to be active participants of headline-making financial trends. Understanding finance and financial markets as drivers of world events should be incorporated into the way schools teach everything from civics to current events.
Read more in the article originally published on Fast Company.
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WoW Knowledge Hub sessions in June
📌 Building a Global Women’s Health Distribution Network, with our partners OCON Healthcare
📌 Interviewing & Onboarding in HealthTech, with our partners Storm3
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📌 Are you a startup developing solutions in the area of prevention and wellness?
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📌 Introducing WoW Expert in Residence - Dr. Jacob Skinner, CEO of Thrive Wearables
📌 Is It Easier to be a Female Founder In FemTech? - guest blog post by our partners Storm3
📌 Startups Magazine is hosting a webinar "Profit that doesn't cost the Earth: How to build a sustainable business" on 8th June at 2pm BST. They have partnered with Klyk to bring you a fantastic lineup of experts to discuss, how to build a sustainable business and if you should apply for B-Corp!
📌 The Women in HealthTech Show podcast - the episode with Dr. Lorin Gresser, CEO Dem Dx
📌 Join Springboard Enterprises, the Women's Health Innovation Coalition, and Accenture at Women's Cognitive and Brain Health Forum on June 30 at 11am ET. RSVP here.
📌 Join Online Growth Summit by Blooming Founders, on June 22, and learn first-hand from experienced founders and operators on how to grow your business online in 2021!
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Industry events, news, and updates 💻🌎📆
📌 White Paper: Using Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality in Industrial Design
📌 Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms for hospital chain
📌 ’Smart Toilet’ Uses Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Bowel Health
📌 CVS Health launches $100M venture fund to provide investment, expertise to digital health startups
📌 Women In Mental Health: Founders Discuss How They Are Shaping The Industry
📌 Beyond VC: The fundraising alternatives for Europe's startups
📌 How to Make Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion a Reality With Virtual Reality
📌 Thin and brittle bones strongly linked to women's heart disease risk
📌 AI lets man with paralysis type by just thinking about handwriting
📌 Pay data shows how women and people of color in tech make less
📌 How female founders and investors are shaking up venture capital
📌 The Next Inflection Point: More Than 100 Million Consumers Are Shopping with AR
📌 How Virtual Reality Is Used To Help Recognize Unconscious Biases
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