Maria Aspan
Fortune
New York, NY, United States
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Why this company has spent 9 years trying to sell birth control pills without a prescription
Perrigo's HRA Pharma has spent nine years trying to make birth control over the counter. Here's where its moonshot stands. → Read More
A device that could save the lives of thousands of new mothers exposes how medicine has left women behind
The Jada System could help save 70,000 women from dying of post-pregnancy complications every year. → Read More
Big Business courted big controversies in the 2022 midterm elections. Were the returns on their political donations worth the risks?
A toxic political climate boosts the risks of political giving. → Read More
Wall Street faces a reckoning over #MeToo—and mandatory arbitration
Two high profile lawsuits are about to head to trial. → Read More
On #MeToo’s fifth anniversary, the movement’s legacy is complicated
The #MeToo movement rocked corporate America, leaving no industry spared. → Read More
Ellen Pao paved the way for a #MeToo reckoning in Silicon Valley. Now she’s calling out tech’s ’embarrassing’ lack of accountability
A decade after filing a landmark gender discrimination lawsuit, Pao says VCs have been 'digging in their heels' against the #MeToo movement. → Read More
The women behind #MeToo, 5 years later: Tarana Burke, Ellen Pao, and Gretchen Carlson on what has and hasn’t changed
Tarana Burke, Ellen Pao, Gretchen Carlson, and others reflect on what has and hasn't changed. → Read More
Sheryl Sandberg is officially done as Meta COO. What really changed for top-ranking women during her tenure?
The former Meta and Facebook COO advocated for women to become leaders, but life didn't get any easier for those who reached the top. → Read More
Female founders are crashing the billionaire club
As the women who created Bumble, Spanx, and 23andMe achieve new levels of wealth and success, can they open the door for the female entrepreneurs coming behind them? → Read More
Can new CEO Fidji Simo turn Instacart into more than just a delivery company?
The former Facebook star and retail newcomer plans to push the startup beyond groceries and toward an IPO. → Read More
Returnships could help women recover from the career setbacks of COVID-19
Amazon is pledging to hire up to 1,000 women through the re-entry and re-training programs. → Read More
Exclusive: Amazon will bring up to 1,000 women back to the workforce in the biggest ever public commitment to ‘returnships’
Amazon's new plan is the biggest public commitment any company has made to returnships for women who've dropped out of the workforce. → Read More
With the pandemic waning, are most public companies' "intentionally boring" virtual shareholder meetings here to stay?
Most U.S. companies put their annual shareholder meetings online in 2020 and 2021. Now some corporate-governance experts are betting they'll stay there. → Read More
Female founders speak out—about speaking out
The Broadsheet, Fortune Most Powerful Women by Kristen Bellstrom, Claire Zillman, and Emma Hinchliffe → Read More
Cancer treatment is getting better. What about its costs?
As cancer treatment advances, the question of "Who’s going to pay for this?" lingers. → Read More
4 challenges companies need to grapple with after the way we work has changed forever
Most employees want to shift to a hybrid model, with some time in the office and some at home, but business leaders need to be proactive about the challenges this brings. → Read More
Meet the women working to fix Pennsylvania’s vaccine rollout
Inside the effort to turn around one the most troubled COVID-19 vaccine rollouts in the U.S. → Read More
COVID vaccine: Inside Pennsylvania's rough rollout of the coronavirus vaccines
Pennsylvania got a perilously slow start in the race to vaccinate its residents—and Black and Latinx communities are still being left behind. → Read More
LinkedIn is adding "stay-at-home mom" and other caretaker titles, as 2.3 million women leave the workforce
A year into the pandemic that has decimated working women, "we need to normalize employment gaps" on LinkedIn's public resumes. → Read More
Can 'returnships' help companies hire back millions of working moms?
The Broadsheet, Fortune Most Powerful Women by Kristen Bellstrom, Claire Zillman, and Emma Hinchliffe → Read More