"The JP Morgan Healthcare Conference is back in town, and while biotech executives are 80% men, a renegade group of women executives took over Union Square in so many pink pantsuits it would have made Mary Tyler Moore proud. If you haven't noticed, the JP Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference is in town again, and the famed big-money biotech conference runs through Thursday. It's considered SF's second largest revenue-generating conference of the year, behind only Dreamforce."
"There's a professional women's organization called the Biotech CEO Sisterhood, and as the SF Business Times reports, they held a flash mob of women biotech executives that took over Union Square in hundreds of pink pantsuits. And it couldn't have happened to a more deserving conference. This is a gathering where, 10 years ago, a party featured scantily-clad female models cozying up to male attendees, as the Business Times explains."
"As the industry publication Fierce Biotech points out, fewer than 20% of biotech CEOs are women. The Biotech CEO Sisterhood is comprised of women CEOs, and also other women C-suite executives who serve as CFOs, COOs, chief business officers, and chief medical officers. "It's a beautiful way of signaling to the world that this is what we stand for: diversity, inclusion, supporting sisters who are executing well, standing for in"
An estimated 700 women biotech executives staged a flash mob in Union Square, wearing hundreds of pink pantsuits to visibly counter male dominance at the JP Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference. The conference draws huge revenue for San Francisco and features steep prices; it also remains male-dominated, with roughly 80% of biotech executives men and fewer than 20% of biotech CEOs women. Ten years earlier, events at the conference included parties with scantily-clad female models. The Biotech CEO Sisterhood includes women CEOs and senior C-suite officers such as CFOs, COOs, chief business officers, and chief medical officers who advocate for diversity and inclusion.
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