Startup Stash - SandSilo, Peanut Talk & Rape Kits 👝

Similarly, there’s Madison Campbell co-founder of Leda Health, a startup that provides medical services and home rape kits to survivors of sexual assault. One of her notable cases was a 10-year-old girl who was denied an abortion in Ohio and had to go to Indiana to get one. The is especially depressing when you realise that majority sexual assault women already don't get easy access to medical care. 

Campbell wants to expand to every state in the nation as “fast as humanly possible” before the fall arrives. 

Then there’s Michelle Kennedy, co-founder of maternity platform Peanut, who is using social media to host discussions for women to express their thoughts and concerns. Earlier women used period tracker apps to do this. But now, these apps have become a risky reference for women’s health issues since they can map data on a woman’s missed period and fertility days.
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Fears that access to emergency contraception is under threat have also spread. Digital health startups are redirecting their marketing campaigns towards contraception. For example, Stix, a startup that sells pregnancy tests and ovulation kits, pivoted its marketing budget toward advertising its new morning after pill, Restart

Why is this needed? 

Most large batteries today are made from lithium. But that is an expensive and scarce resource. And mining it carries a significant environment cost. 

Potential Issues: The world going through a growing shortage of sand and acquiring tonnes of sand for a novice tech could potentially intensify this shortage. However, researches suggest this battery can be created using low-quality sand or even sand-like materials.

As inflation eats away at the earnings of consumers and businesses, more are getting creative as a means of generating additional income.

According to a new survey from QuickBooks, up to 4 million Latino workers are thinking about taking the entrepreneurship plunge to help cope with record-high inflation. 

Inflationary Dividend: The survey suggests that 15% of Latino and Hispanic respondents expressed interest in becoming an entrepreneur in 2022. A more recent QuickBooks survey even found that 44% of budding Latino entrepreneurs were hungry to add to their income stream by starting a business on top of their current job. 

What the respondents said: The internet and new technologies, such as software and e-commerce, have created a conducive environment for launching new ventures.

Respondents specifically credit tech with easing the process of finding new customers, tapping into business-management tools, and accessing business advice. They add that digital technology has lowered startup costs and helped with removing language barriers as well. 

Globally the share of women is the workforce is at its lowest in 15 years. Gender parity in labour force participation stands at 62.9%. That means for every 100 men in the workforce, there are only 63 women. 

According to analysis by the World Economic Forum (WEF), if we take into consideration the work trends from 2006 to 2020, the rate of change was such that it would take 100 years to close the gender gap. That is already incredibly long. But the pandemic made matters worse. Now it’s a 132 years until we get to parity.

Reasons:

The pandemic affected sectors where many women are employed such as retail and hospitality. School and nursery closures increased burden of parents, with the impact disproportionately suffered by women. 

Mentality Issue:

While sectors like educations have more women in leadership roles, women in the engineering and manufacturing sectors are lagging behind. In fact, it seems, women are tending to acquire skills in fields that already employ a lot of women in order to avert career risks.