#GAReads | Women Are Making Over The Beauty Industry’s Boy’s Club
Birchbox CEO Katia Beauchamp. Photo credit: Fortune Live Media [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], via Flickr
"Women Are Making Over The Beauty Industry’s Boy’s Club":
The technology sector has been in the hot seat recently over its lack of gender balance, but it’s not the only industry whose upper echelons remain male-dominated. The multibillion-dollar beauty industry sells primarily to women, but its biggest companies continue to be run mostly by men. That means men are at the helm of the companies that choose the shade of a lipstick and the size of a mascara wand.
Now, however, a new wave of women-led startups are trying to change that.