If we don’t act fast, women are going to bear the brunt of the economic burden created by today’s COVID-19 crisis. In this Q&A, we invited Katica Roy, gender economist and CEO + Founder of Denver-based Pipeline. Pipeline is an award-winning SaaS company that leverages artificial intelligence to identify and drive economic gains through gender equity. It launched the first gender equity app on Salesforce’s AppExchange, and the Pipeline platform was named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2019 and Fast Company’s 2020 World’s Most Innovative Companies.
In our conversation with Katica, we discussed gender equity, gender budgeting in policy-making, and DI&E in the time of COVID-19 and how to make a difference from home. Here are our top takeaways from the conversation: