While women own 42% of all US businesses, only 16% of PPP loans went to women-owned businesses.

Meanwhile, after hitting an all-time high in 2019, venture capital funding for women-run start-ups has dropped in 2020 to a three-year low. (Why? Likely a combo of the women having to take on more family responsibilities and cautious investors staying close to their own existing networks in a crisis year.)

And a study by the Female Founders Alliance of women and nonbinary people with “high entrepreneurial aspirations” found that 51% of them have scrapped their plans to start a business … with most of them citing lack of funding.

A new study found that most people are OK with “ambitious women.” Great news, right? Well … not exactly. People are OK with some types of ambition but not others, so exactly how to show ambition is yet another tightrope women leaders have to walk.

OK, but maybe the real reason women don’t succeed is because they’re not confident enough, right? (We hear this one all the time.) Nope. Another study found that confidence is absolutely linked to better prospects for promotion at work … but only for men.

Most of the early composers of video game music were women, and they shaped the industry — but haven’t gotten the accolades that the male composers did. Meet them now.

Carol Fishman Cohen, the founder of iRelaunch, wrote a letter with some great advice to all of the 865,000 women who left the workforce last month — from a smart perspective on the cost of a career break to lots of things you can do when you’re ready to come back.

Lauren Fleshman was an elite runner before the sport’s body-shaming culture took a toll. Now, she’s a feminist running coach with a training model that puts women’s needs first.