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Women & Everwise
Women in Business
Women-Led Revolutions
Breaking Boundaries
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100
This year-long, women in leadership program provides emerging women leaders across more than 50 different companies, the tools they need to accelerate their career and reach their fullest potential.
Answer: EverwiseWomen
100
This woman was the first female CEO of major global automaker General Motors (GM).
Answer: Mary Barra Extra fact: She’s been at GM since she was 18 years old! She started as a student at the General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in Flint, Michigan. She studied electrical engineering and has since held a variety of positions at the company in communications, engineering, and human resources. One of her favorite jobs was head of human resources, because she felt she "could drive some of the change we needed."
100
According to ancient legends, this woman took her father’s place in the army and was skilled in martial arts, sword fighting and archery.
Answer: Hua Mulan
100
This woman is known for her political activism with the Black Panthers, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Community, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Answer: Angela Davis Fun Fact: Davis continues to lecture and write about human rights and equality. She is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
100
The number of years it will take to achieve gender parity.
Answer: 170
200
We have a diverse pool of mentors, from over 150 different industries, 60 countries, spanning across experienced front line executives to C suite executives. Of our 6210 mentors, 29% claim identify themselves as ____.
Answer: Female
200
This CEO of Pepsi apparently loves karaoke and owns a karaoke machine at home.
Answer: Indra Nooyi Nooyi also played lead guitar in an all girls rock band and was a cricket player in college.Since Indra Nooyi started as CFO in 2001, Pepsi's annual net profit has risen from $2.7 billion to $6.5 billion (2015).
200
This mathematician led a revolution at NASA by becoming the agency’s first African-American manager.
Answer: Dorothy Vaughn. During her 28-year career, Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early 1960s by teaching herself and her staff the programming language of FORTRAN; she later headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at Langley.
200
This woman is best known for her talk show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She is also a media mogul, producer, and philanthropist.
Answer: Oprah Winfrey
200
The percentage of mothers that return to work.
Answer: 70%
300
Currently, Everwise’s highest-level, female leader. She started at Everwise laying the original foundation for our sales operations, to later build the original SDR team, bring Everwise’s premier women in leadership program to market, and now focused more broadly across the various learning experiences. You can often hear her on a bull horn.
Answer: Heather McKibbon
300
This woman is the current Chairwoman, President, and CEO of IBM & the first woman to head the company.
Answer: Virginia Rometty Rometty attended Northwestern and majored in computer science and electrical engineering. She started at IBM in 1981 as a systems engineer!
300
This woman is best known for speaking out against the violent rule of Burmese dictator U Ne Win. After starting a nonviolent movement for equality and human rights, she was put under house arrest for 15 years.
Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi
300
Question: This woman was the first African-American First Lady and became an advocate for poverty awareness, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating.
Answer: Michelle Obama
300
Fill in the blank: Men are X times more likely to interrupt women than men.
Answer: 3 times more likely
400
From her home in Minnesota, this woman leads our Experience Manager team, to ensure that our participants are getting a high-touch, high-value experience. Starting with Everwise back in 2012, she has now built this team to 18. She keeps a full household with 2 kids and 2 dogs, and 2 more kids that come home to visit their mom.
Answer: Angela Miller
400
These two woman founded an online monthly subscription service based in NYC that sends its subscribers a box of four to five selected samples of makeup, or other beauty related products.
Answer: Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna of Birchbox. Beauchamp and Barna met at Harvard Business School, where they originally came up with the idea for Birchbox.
400
Celebrated as the “female Paul Revere”, this woman rode over 40 miles through to warn colonial militia that British troops were burning Danbury, Connecticut during the Revolutionary War.
Answer: Sybil Ludington
400
On March 1st, this woman became the first Latina to lead a Fortune 500 company (PG&E).
Answer: Geisha Williams Fun Fact: Williams fled Cuba with her parents in 1967 at five years of age.
400
Fill in the blank: Women of color earn X cents on every dollar a white man earns for the same job.
Answer: 64 cents
500
Everwise aims to have a workforce that is both diverse and inclusive. Of our 92 current employees, ____% are female.
Answer: 50%
500
This woman serves as Chairman (since May 2010) of Xerox and was the CEO of the company from July 2009 to December 2016. She was the first black-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company. She is also the first woman to succeed another woman as head of a Fortune 500 company.
Answer: Ursula Burns In 1980, she joined the company as an intern and impressed enough to be promoted to the role of executive assistant in 1990. From there, she continued her rise through the ranks to ultimately become CEO.
500
In 1846, then a 26-year-old school headmistress, this woman began campaigning for equal pay for female teachers. Five years later, she met fellow women's-rights advocate Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the outspoken duo began touring the country arguing the case for women's suffrage.
Answer: Susan B. Anthony
500
This woman served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 2011-2016 and was the first woman of color to head the organization.
Answer: Anna Maria Chavez
500
A study in 2000 by Harvard showed that “blind” auditions increased the likelihood of female musicians being selected by this percentage.
Answer: 30. According to analysis using roster data, the transition to blind auditions from 1970 to the 1990s can explain 30 percent of the increase in the proportion female among new hires and possibly 25 percent of the increase in the percentage female in the orchestras. "Blind” auditions significantly reduced gender-biased hiring and the gender gap in symphony orchestra compositions.