Alabama lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that would criminalize gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth, with a threat of 10 years in prison for medical providers.

The Gender Parity Collaborative, an award-winning consortium led by the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA), released a report presenting new data marking the significant headway their healthcare and life science partner companies are making towards gender and workplace equality, outperforming peers and various industries altogether.

As today’s leaders work together on initiatives for equal pay, conquering unconscious bias and closing the gender gap, tomorrow’s leaders need to prepare for what comes next. This series, presented by the HBA’s affinity group Tomorrow’s Executives, seeks to provide tools and tactics for young professionals to grow as leaders and get ahead in incorporating gender parity into their everyday work culture.

The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) announced the 2019 Woman of the Year, Honorable Mentor and STAR award honorees.

Leadership representing the 2018 Manny Award agency and network winners and finalists share their views on various healthcare industry trends and developments.

The agenda will feature speakers who will share what achieving gender parity means to them, as well as highlight the groundbreaking work being done at large organizations.

The disparity between the large number of women working in healthcare and holding responsibilities over health and wellness decisions compared to the small number of women in leadership roles in healthcare businesses must be remedied.