Joy Mangano is a self-made inventor and entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar business through persistence, creativity, and sheer determination. While she’s best known for the Miracle Mop, her inventions stretch far and wide including the cleaning product line “Clean Boss” created alongside Pitbull. But it wasn’t easy getting her start as a female inventor. Below is a collection of key statistics about women in leadership, sports, government, medical, and entertainment positions gathered in one place. While we have seen many improvements over the last few years, there is still a lot of work to be done before reaching true gender equality. It’s women like Joy Mangano who remind us that it’s never too late to change the narrative of your story.
In 2024, only 52 women are leading Fortune 500 companies.
Source:
Women Business Collaborative — 2024 Women CEO Report
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In the 97-year history of the Academy Awards, 611 films have been nominated for Best Picture.
Only 23 of those films were directed by women.
Source:
Variety
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Only 6 women have ever won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.
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Forbes
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113 countries worldwide have never had a woman serve as Head of State or Government. There are 195 countries in the world.
Source:
Unwomen
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Women comprise nearly 70% of the healthcare workforce but only hold approximately 25% of leadership roles
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Every single US president in history has been male.
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Only 24% of the people in newspaper, television, and radio news are women.
Source:
Giving Compass
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Only 17% of nominees at the Oscars since 1929 have been women – and less than 2% of nominees were women of color, new research shows.
Source:
World Economic Forum
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In 2023, women working full-time had median weekly earnings of $1,005, while men’s median was $1,202.
Source:
BLS
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For every dollar paid to non-Hispanic white men, Latina women earned $0.51, Black women earned $0.64, white women earned $0.73, Asian American women earned $0.83.
Source:
AAUW
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As of January 1, 2025, women make up 27.2% of national parliament.
Source:
Un Women
