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= The Female Quotient = The Female Quotient (The FQ) is in the business of equality, and is an organization dedicated to advancing women in the workplace. [1, 2, 3]

Content

 * History
 * The Girls’ Lounge
 * The Equality Lounge
 * The Equality Practice
 * Impact
 * References
 * Further Reading
 * External Links

History
The Female Quotient is a female-owned company that was founded in 2015 [3] by Shelley Zalis [4], who is an entrepreneur, market researcher, public speaker and activist for gender parity [5].

The company began with the Girls’ Lounges, pop-up activations at conferences around the the world for women to collaborate and network. Zalis held the first Girls’ Lounge in 2013 [6]. The company also hosts Equality Lounges, such as at the World Economic Forum at Davos, to bring together male and female leaders to discuss equality topics [7, 8]. (The Female Quotient hosted an Equality Lounge at Davos for the first time in 2016 [7, 9]).

The first edition of the Modern Guide To Equality, a bi-annual publication that makes the business case for equality and provides tools and solutions for leaders to advance equality in the workplace, launched at Davos in 2017 [10].

The Girls’ Lounge
The Girls’ Lounge is a space for female business leaders and aspiring female business leaders to network [6, 17] and learn more about equality topics. The Girls’ Lounge is hosted in partnership with multiple Fortune 500 companies across industries [6]. The Girls’ Lounges are experiential pop-ups at large industry meetings and conferences around the globe, including:


 * SXSW
 * Consumer Electronic Show
 * Advertising Week
 * ANA Masters of Marketing
 * Dmexco
 * ARF ConsumerXScience
 * 4A’s Decisions 20/20
 * Shop.org
 * NRF Big Show
 * Cannes Film Festival

The Female Quotient also activates internal Girls’ Lounges at companies. In addition, The Female Quotient partnered with SAP Next-Gen to create permanent Girls' Lounges on university campuses [2].

The Equality Lounge
The Girls’ Lounges are primarily geared towards women, though they are male inclusive, with men as visitors and panel speakers [13]. The Equality Lounges specifically target female and male leaders to work together to address barriers to equality, and include panelists of all genders [17]. The Equality Lounge has been integrated into the following conferences:


 * The World Economic Forum at Davos [8]
 * Dreamforce in partnership with Deloitte [14]
 * AT&T’s Business Summit [15]

The Equality Practice
The Equality Practice is the research and strategy arm of The Female Quotient that works with companies to help them set and meet gender equality goals through conscious mindset training and measurements for accountability [16, 18].

The Female Quotient’s bi-annual publication, The Modern Guide To Equality, is a playbook that combines insights, case studies and expert suggestions on how to achieve gender equality in the workplace [16, 18]. The digital portal version on The Female Quotient’s website also includes topic expert listings [11].

In order to help companies have measurements for accountability, The Female Quotient released four key vitals to assess a company’s equality health in the Modern Guide to Equality, which include [18, 19]:

1. Parity: Highlighting topics such as wage gap, diversity, and vendor diversity.

2. Advancement: Focusing on mentorship, sponsorship, and coaching.

3. Culture: Implementing policies that promote equality and training.

4. Leadership: With an emphasis on values, communication, and accountability.

These four equality health vitals are the measurements used to create consultancy bootcamps to help companies set and meet equality goals [20].

Impact
The Confidence Collection is The Female Quotient’s corporate social responsibility arm, a retail collection that collaborates with nonprofits supporting women [21]. It includes a clothing collection called Talkin’ Tees that unlocks advice career advice via videos activated from an app [21, 22], as well as a jewelry line called Talkin’ Tools that also unlocks advice from female leaders [21].

The Female Quotient launched the platform, Women Voyagers: Breaking Boundaries, in partnership with Google in September 2017 to bring visibility to women who are championing equality around the globe [23]. The interactive map features female equality champions from the 144 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report [23].