Women’s History Month
Reflecting on Women’s History Month, I saw a post about how we often celebrate women that had major successes in the past. Like Marie Curie, Madame C.J. Walker, Amelia Earheart, Harriet Tubman…
But, what about highlighting the amazing women doing things in the present?
I’ve had the great opportunity to work in an industry where women make major contributions. As with many industries, the pharmaceutical industry has still not achieved equality. Recently there was a post of the top 10 CEOs of pharma and NONE were women! NONE!! Despite the fact that there are amazing women CEOs in our industry.
Like CEOs of Biopharma Companies including Deborah Dunsire (Lundbeck), Jackie Foss (Agios), Paula Soteropoulos (Ensoma), Reshma Kewalramani (Vertex), Alicia Secor (Atalanta), Nancy Simonian (Syros) —
There are more – more executive women, more women on boards in biopharma – but still not enough.
In 2016, Big Pharma named the first female CEO – Emma Walmsley of GSK. 2016 – I’ll leave that for you to consider.
We have lots more work to do but there are many, many successful women paving the way for others in pharma/biotech.
Cheers to their success and their ability to bring other women with them.
We also need men to bring women with them.
This is an issue for all of us – not women, not men, all of us.