Ann Cairns, president of International Markets for Mastercard, said we need show women that the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (or STEM) fields are exciting.
“I think that what we have to do is, we have to tell them how exciting it is,” Cairns, a former engineer, said on HuffPost Live Friday from Davos.
“I think sometime these professions are presented as rather dull and uninteresting but that’s not necessarily the case,” she added.
Cairns also addressed the lack of women in the finance field, saying there’s a “gap” we have to fill.
“Particularly in the banking world we’re getting the entry level women, and we’re getting some women that rise to running divisions… but we’re losing women in the middle,” Cairns said. “We’ve got a gap there, and the question is, why is that happening and what can we do to stop that?”
Below, the latest updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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Gabrielle Fitzgerald said there were some “real overreactions” to Ebola in the United States, specifically mentioning how it makes no sense for people to assume doctors who’ve treated Ebola patients are infected with the virus.
Gabrielle Fitzgerald of the Paul G. Allen Foundation spoke to HuffPost about a trip to West Africa she took on her way to Davos.
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“I think the cinema experience will be a better experience for consumers,” Gelfond said. “There are two reasons people go to movies: it’s a differentiated experience.. and the other is its a social experience.”
“I think as long as the theaters in general keep those elements, people will still go to theaters,” Gelfond said. “That being said theres never been a technology that you can hold back forever.”
IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond spoke with HuffPost Live about the company’s decision to run HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
“IMAX sees ourselves at the top of the food chain as far as a premium experience,” Gelfond said.
“Thinking of it in a strange way, IMAX is another device,” Gelfond said.
Alexis Ringwald, co-founder and CEO of LearnUp, at Davos
Alexis Ringwald, co-founder and CEO of LearnUp, said she went on a “listening journey” through unemployment lines in America and discovered there’s a skills gap and a challenge even for people to get an entry-level job.
“We decided to partner with employers directly — they’re the only ones who know exactly what skills you need,” she said.
Ringwald said a couple of hours of LearnUp training will triple someone’s chances of getting a job.
Handley said he’s disappointed with the parties at Davos.
“Let’s be honest, they’re not very good,” Handley said.
