3 Innovations for Women's Health & CEO Advice for New Grad Success | WEF | Top Stories of the Week
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2024-02-17

This week's top stories of the week include:

0:15 3 innovations for women's health – Women’s health is a chronically underfunded area of healthcare. Just 1% of funding goes to women’s conditions that are not cancer-related. Women spend 25% more of their lives in poor health than men. Investments to close the gender health gap could help women avoid 24 million life years lost due to disability and boost the global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040.

3:16 CEO advice for new grad success – Today’s young people are set to have the longest careers of any generation yet and the most moves between jobs. Sander van 't Noordende is the CEO of Randstad. The world’s largest talent recruitment company. Here, he shares the top 3 attributes that help new hires to succeed. 

5:07 Building trust in the workplace – If employees aren’t trusted by their manager, they’re unlikely to trust in return. Rachel Botsman is a world-renowned expert on the issue of trust and how it’s changing, amid disruptive new technology. Botsman says trust inside an organization breaks down in 3 stages.

7:52 The $10 trillion case for sustainable food – An international team of scientists found that food systems are creating environmental, health and economic losses instead of value. By aggravating some of the greatest challenges facing the world from malnutrition to nature loss. A ‘greener’ food system could eliminate malnutrition by 2050 saving 174 million people from premature death.

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