The Algorithm Age

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates says there’s one surprising skill Gen Alpha girls can build in high school to boost their chances of becoming a CEO—and it’s not coding or straight A’s. It’s playing sports. Research backs her up: 94% of women in the C-suite were once athletes. Want to increase your chances, or perhaps your child’s odds, of one day becoming a female CEO? Sign up for high school football, gymnastics, tennis (or any sports team for that matter), pronto. That’s because when it comes to the few women who actually make it to the top, there’s one striking pattern they all share. “The only correlation they can find of women in the C suite, the CEO spot, it that they all played sport—or the majority played sport,” Melinda French Gates recently explained at the Power of Women’s Sports Summit presented by e.l.f. Beauty. “And the thesis is (we don’t know why that is) they didn’t mind failing,” the 60-year-old billionaire philanthropist a...

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates says there’s one surprising skill Gen Alpha girls can build in high school to boost their chances of becoming a CEO—and it’s not coding or straight A’s. It’s playing sports. Research backs her up: 94% of women in the C-suite were once athletes. Want to increase your chances, or perhaps your child’s odds, of one day becoming a female CEO? Sign up for high school football, gymnastics, tennis (or any sports team for that matter), pronto. That’s because when it comes to the few women who actually make it to the top, there’s one striking pattern they all share. “The only correlation they can find of women in the C suite, the CEO spot, it that they all played sport—or the majority played sport,” Melinda French Gates recently explained at the Power of Women’s Sports Summit presented by e.l.f. Beauty. “And the thesis is (we don’t know why that is) they didn’t mind failing,” the 60-year-old billionaire philanthropist a...