How The Wella Company Is Examining Gender Equity Amid The Pandemic

Living through a pandemic has magnified disparities in gender equality throughout the world. Women’s jobs are nearly twice as vulnerable to the COVID-19 crisis than men’s jobs, and women make up over half of all job losses through the pandemic, despite only accounting for a third of global employment, according to McKinsey. The pro beauty sector—an industry dominated by women—was one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, and is still recovering.

That’s why Wella Company CEO Annie Young-Scrivner took a deep dive into gender…