Thursday, July 30, 2015

Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution


"In the past decade, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation has become the most influential supporter of research on IUDs and expanding access to the contraceptive." An excerpt:
For Warren, it’s economic. He thinks that unless women can control their fertility—and that it’s basically their right to control their fertility—that you are sort of wasting more than half of the brainpower in the United States
This piece in Bloomberg is worth reading. In part for what Warren Buffett has achieved, but also for how he thinks about re-investing his wealth back in the community.

Thanks, +Tom Janssens 

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .