Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, GM CEO Mary Barra, and Anita Hill are on deck.
Good morning, Broadsheet readers! All of western Europe now requires paternity leave, Fortune‘s Impact 20 highlights startups making a difference, and Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit 2020 kicks off. Have a powerful Tuesday.
– The New Reality, Day One. Today marks the official start of Fortune‘s 22nd Most Powerful Women Summit. For the first time, the gathering will be held virtually.
As Emma mentioned yesterday, the Summit will kick off with a conversation between Fortune‘s Ellen McGirt and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex. We’ll also hear from GM CEO Mary Barra, Ariel Investments co-CEO Mellody Hobson, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden, and Brandeis law professor Anita Hill. And that’s only part of the line-up from Day One.
Later this week, we’ll chat with incoming Citi CEO Jane Fraser, Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet, Carbon CEO Ellen Kullman, Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson, IBM Executive Chairman Ginni Rometty, retired Xerox Chairman and CEO Ursula Burns, and many more. You can browse the full list of speakers for the summit here.
The live stream will only be available for registered participants, but the Broadsheet will be bringing you coverage of the conference all this week.
The theme of this year’s summit is ‘Rising to the New Reality,’ which reflects the effort by Fortune‘s MPW community to better understand and respond to the rapid, ongoing changes to business and society and their extraordinary impacts.
Also new this year: Fortune‘s first-ever MPW Leadership Survey, which was conducted this month. A peek at the findings, based on more than 100 responses, reveals how members of the MPW community are thinking about the current moment:
– A majority of respondents—53.4%—expect economic activity to return to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, versus 2021 (22.3%), 2023 (17.5%), and beyond 2023 (6.8%).
– Nearly half—47.6%—of respondents expect 90% of their companies’ employees to be back in the office next year. Interestingly, nearly a quarter say their company offices will never reach 90% capacity again.
– Nearly 80% of respondents say their companies’ diversity and inclusion efforts have increased since the onset of the pandemic; that’s a good thing since roughly two-thirds agree that the pandemic has exacerbated existing gender bias and has had a disproportionate, negative impact on women.
More results from the survey will be revealed at the Summit and in the Fortune Analytics newsletter, which is available to premium Fortune subscribers.
Claire Zillman
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Today’s Broadsheet was curated by Emma Hinchliffe.
