What We Hate About International Women’s Day. Plus: The $200 Million Business Fueling The Ozempic Generation Welcome to this week’s ForbesWomen newsletter, which every Thursday brings news about the world’s top female entrepreneurs, leaders and investors straight to your inbox. This is this week’s ForbesWomen newsletter, which every Thursday brings news about the world’s top female entrepreneurs, leaders and investors straight to your inbox. ’s March, which means one thing around here: The ForbesWomen inbox is inundated with emails about Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. And if you’ve been reading us more than a minute, you’ll know how we Though IWD has roots in a 1908 march for fair pay by 15,000 women in New York City, marketing machines throughout the world have since turned it into something far more performative. This Sunday, brands galore will post about their support for women… The odds of the equal representation piece are slim. Data provider Equileap recently assessed 3,500 companies in 24 different global markets—companies with a market cap of at least $2 billion—and found that“For the third year in a row, we see that we have 7% female CEOs, and we see the percentage of women on the board and in executive positions… really isn’t moving,” Diana van Maasdijk, Equileap's CEO,for women’s leadership in recent years: “We’re seeing fewer companies publishing pay gap data, fewer companies having supplier diversity programs, and the number of women in leadership here is also stagnating.”… so none of what I’ve written here should be shocking. Instead, I hope it activates your best problem-solving instincts. If you’re reading this and in a position of power, how are you using that power to create real leadership opportunities for the women around you? What steps are you taking to ensure equal pay for equal work at your organization?amid shelves lined with protein-packed cereals, pastas and sports drinks. “You invest a lifetime on an idea, and when the idea starts to work, then it gets exciting,” says, whose parents started the company in 1985. With $200 million in estimated annual revenue, the family-run Puris sells soy, corn and pea seeds to hundreds of farmers in 20 states, who produce around 3 million bushels a year. Lorenzen’s older sister,, works with the farmers to make sure there are enough acres being grown, while he markets the protein to get it to buyers. The goal, says Atchison, is “building regional independence, what our dad called ‘protein independence.’ We are playing what we call the infinite game. We're builders. We're doers. We can't even help ourselves.”became the first at-home cervical cancer screening device to ever receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. And less than a year later,31% of Gen-Z men believe that women should “always” obey their husbands,has found success in a contrarian marketing push around women-initiated divorce and separations. “This campaign launched on the heels of Valentine’s Day, which tends to flatten women into one role,"She isn’t waiting for permission to enjoy her life.” The cast of billionaires who have kowtowed to President Trump is extensive, including everyone from Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman. That’s what makesMost of us have left a job interview replaying the conversation in our minds. Did I talk myself up too much? Did they make the job sound better than it is? Here areRight now, many teams are operating under a kind of ambient stress that has become impossible to ignore: A war is unfolding in the Middle East. Federal immigration enforcement operations have disrupted daily life in American communities. Economic uncertainty continues to compound.The above to-do was for your team. This one is for you, because repeated exposure to distressing news can overwhelm the nervous system, particularly when individuals feel powerless to influence the outcome. Here are the Nebraska joined a handful of states that have filed lawsuits against Roblox, the massively popular online game. The suit accused Roblox of lacking proper child protection safeguards, including its recent efforts to improve on this front.