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When Eve Andersson joined Google in 2007, the accessibility movement was what she called a "grassroots effort." Now, 13 years later, Andersson serves as Google's director of inclusive machine learning and accessibility engineering, spearheading the company's focus on accessibility.

The 2019 EO GSEA Social Impact Award winner is revolutionizing menstrual hygiene in disadvantaged communities and has stopped 12 child marriages along the way.

"As women continue to take their seat at the table, and as women, like men, continue to have operational experience and come up through those moments of change, women will get their fair share," says Tina Sharkey, the co-founder and CEO of Brandless, a household items e-commerce company that raised $240 million last year.

Social entrepreneur Leila Janah died on Thursday from complications of Epithelioid Sarcoma, a very rare cancer with which she was diagnosed in April 2019. Janah, the child of Indian immigrants, was an Africa expert who founded two non-profits and one for-profit company, all with the aim of improving life for very poor people in Africa -- by giving them reasonably well paid work. She was a young global leader of the World Economic Forum, and had appeared on the cover of Inc.'s sister publication Fast Company

They don't teach this in business school.

From 2010 to 2019, the amount of money raised by all-female teams grew to about $6 billion from $1 billion, while all-male teams saw funding soar to $195 billion from $31 billion. The takeaway: On a percentage basis, all-female teams remain stuck, raising just two to three percent of the total venture capital in eight of the past 10 years.