Women are opening more businesses, landing more high-paying jobs and establishing major footholds in industries that men have traditionally dominated, Axios' Hope King and Erica Pandey write.

By the numbers: New data from Yelp shows significant increases in the number of home services companies — like plumbing and HVAC repair — owned by women.

• 🔨 Listings within the home services category that were created by women grew 38% in 2023, according to Yelp, outpacing the national average, and the increases are even bigger in certain areas and certain industries.
• 👷‍♀️ Boston, for example, saw a 500% jump in women-led listings for general contractors.
• ⚡️ Women-created businesses overall increased 17% in 2023, per Yelp.

🏃‍♀️ Zoom out: Women make up 47% of America's workforce, per Pew Research Center, and 51% of the college-educated workforce.

• They hold 35% of the highest-paying jobs in the U.S., up from 13% in 1980.

Why it matters: After a historic pandemic-era setback, women are driving all sorts of economic gains — from entrepreneurship to consumption.

The U.S. will begin airdropping humanitarian aid into Gaza, President Biden said today.

The big picture: The move underscores the growing concerns within the Biden administration about the worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza and the difficulties of getting aid into the enclave, Axios' Barak Ravid writes.

• The UN has warned that "famine is almost inevitable" if nothing changes.
• The move comes as Biden faces growing pressure abroad and at home to do more to restrain Israel and get more aid in Gaza.

Yes, but: U.S. officials have acknowledged that aid airdrops have a limited impact. A U.S. military plane could only drop the equivalent of what one or two aid trucks can carry.

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Scientists recently discovered a new type of fish — not in the unexplored depths, but right under their noses in a marine preserve that's popular with scuba divers.

🤿 The Halichoeres sanchezi was discovered in an underwater field of volcanic rubble and lava boulders near the remote islands of the Revillagigedo Archipelago, Axios San Diego co-author Kate Murphy reports.

• The Mexican islands are a popular destination for recreational scuba divers hoping to see sharks, manta rays, humpback whales and sea turtles.
• And it's probably the only place this fish lives, researchers said. The islands' isolation and legal protections created a "window back in time to before intensive fishing," UC San Diego's Ben Frable said.