--- --- # How to Close the Restaurant Gender Gap by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 28, 2016 5:30 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 28, 2016 5:30 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s one industry where paid parental leave can make a huge impact.**](http://www.eater.com/2016/1/27/10835270/restaurant-industry-women-chefs-paid-maternity-leave) By Amanda Kludt in Eater **2\.** [**This is why we should stop using the term ‘mentally ill.’**](https://news.osu.edu/news/2016/01/26/person-first/) By Jeff Grabmeier at the Ohio State University **3\.** [**The toxic comment culture on the web is our fault.**](https://medium.com/@anildash/against-don-t-read-the-comments-aee43ce515b9#.gb4csziwd) By Anil Dash in Medium **4\.** [**Robots won’t be teaching our kids, but they will change the face of education.**](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/knowledge-bank/articles/2016-01-21/how-technology-will-change-the-demand-for-teachers%20) By Michael Hansen in US News **5\.** [**The 2016 election is all about voter anger, right? Not quite.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/26/the-myth-of-the-angry-american-voter/) By Aaron Blake in the Washington Post  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How to Close the Restaurant Gender Gap ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4197960/how-to-close-the-restaurant-gender-gap/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4197960/how-to-close-the-restaurant-gender-gap/"},"headline":"How to Close the Restaurant Gender Gap","datePublished":"2016-01-28T17:30:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:31.694Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4197960/how-to-close-the-restaurant-gender-gap/","keywords":["Innovation","robots","Mental Illness","trump","parental leave"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4197960/how-to-close-the-restaurant-gender-gap/","name":"How to Close the Restaurant Gender Gap"}}]}] ```