
Gemma Allen
Contributor at Forbes
Living in BK, made in Cork. Mam of 2 future trailblazers 🐥🐣optimist and lover of a good old fashioned chit chat. Penning some thoughts for @nasdaq & @forbes
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4 days ago |
forbes.com | Gemma Allen
Dedham, MA - June 17: Karen Read waves to her supporters outside of Norfolk Superior Court on June ... More 17, 2025. (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)Boston Globe via Getty ImagesWhen Karen Read entered a Massachusetts courtroom in 2022, she was a woman at risk of losing everything.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Gemma Allen
NYC June 5th- Future of Fatherhood Summit© Jessica Bal“There’s not that much for the dad to do.”It’s a comment that might seem fitting of an era long gone, but for Deborah Singer’s husband, it was a comment made in earnest in a professional setting right before the birth of their first child.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Gemma Allen
The ongoing legal firestorm between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni took centre stage again this month when news emerged that Taylor Swift had been subpoenaed in connection with the case. The Lively and Baldoni lawsuit is serious. In late 2024, Lively accused her 'It Ends With Us’ co-star and director of sexual harassment and workplace retaliation.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Gemma Allen
As child mental health reaches crisis levels and public funding dries up, a new wave of parent-led innovation is stepping in to close the gap. Rebecca Egger, a former Chan Zuckerberg Initiative leader, co-founded Little Otter in 2021 with her mother, renowned child psychiatrist Dr. Helen Egger. Backed by investors including Torch Capital and Pivotal Ventures, the startup represents a growing trend of parents turning lived experience into venture-backed solutions.
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2 months ago |
forbes.com | Gemma Allen
As the world mourns Pope Francis, who died yesterday at 88, his legacy takes shape, not as a revolution but as a quiet recalibration of norms. This is particularly true of his treatment of women within the Catholic Church, where his papacy will not be remembered by sweeping reform but by something subtler: a deliberate rebalancing. Since his election in 2013, Francis never challenged Church doctrine on women. Yet he did something quietly radical in a system long shaped by silence and hierarchy.
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