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Luck or Ability: Reducing Gender Bias in the Workplace

Maggie McGrath

Editor, ForbesWomen

Maggie McGrath is a multimedia journalist who tells stories in print, online, on camera and through live events. She is the editor of ForbesWomen, the Forbes vertical dedicated to covering all angles of female entrepreneurship. She loves a good Forbes list: she is the editor of the 50 Over 50 and the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, contributes to the 30 Under 30 and previously edited the Just 100. She is adept at speaking on live TV and has appeared across Forbes’ video platforms and in Know Your Value segments for MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” for the past several years. In 2024, she officially took that on-camera work and became an anchor for ForbesTV, Forbes’ breaking news video platforms.

Maggie also provides editorial programming for Forbes’ live events and has conducted this live journalism for audiences around the world.

She’s worked at Forbes for more than a decade and in that time has written on everything from the student debt crisis to Triple Crown-contending (and winning) horses. Before coming to Forbes, Maggie worked with TODAY show financial editor Jean Chatzky.

"It’s important to remember that luck and skill are not mutually exclusive—and oftentimes, the most successful people among us have benefitted from both. Acknowledging this duality can help even the playing field for workers of all genders."

Maggie McGrath