• A global slowdown. The latest report from the World Economic Forum finds that global gender parity actually took a step backward this year. One factor that had a particularly harmful impact: the stagnation of the women's labor force participation rate, which has slowed for the past three years. Fortune • Icing out Ivanka. According to a new survey by polling firm Morning Consult, just 1 in 4 women say they would buy Ivanka Trump-branded clothing. Among Democratic women, that number is closer to 1 in 10. Fortune • On the run. The New York Times' Claire Cain Miller digs into the research about women in politics. Her conclusion: "When women run for political office, they are just as likely as men to be elected. The main reason they are so underrepresented is that they don't run in the first place." New York Times • Feeling blue. In other political news, the latest projections suggest that the 2016 election will deliver record-setting gains to Democratic women in Congress. Politico • Early adopters. Snapchat and other major social platforms may have one group to thank for their success: women. Fortune's Valentina Zarya reports on why the majority of early social media adopters have historically been female. Fortune • Amplifying her message. Juliet Eilperin, the Washington Post reporter who penned the story about the female White House staffers who used "amplification" to get their ideas heard, writes about all the women who contacted her after the article ran, sharing their own stories about using the technique. Washington Post MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Fortune senior writer Erin Griffith is taking over the Term Sheet newsletter from founding editor Dan Primack. GLAAD has named three new board members: The Coca-Cola Company National Retail Sales VP Pamela Stewart, philanthropist Nicole Eisenberg, and Ariadne Getty, president and executive director of the Ariadne Getty Foundation. | 