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Gender pay gap in the United States

The gender pay gap in the United States is the difference between what women and men are paid; in 2024 women earned 83 to 85 cents per dollar.

GenDx

GenDx, formally Genome Diagnostics B.V., is a Dutch molecular diagnostics company in Utrecht, founded in 2005, that makes HLA typing reagents and software for matching transplant donors and recipients.

Gene Landrum

Gene Landrum (born 1935) is an American entrepreneur, author, and educator who built the first Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre in San Jose in 1977.

Gene Lee

Gene Lee is a software engineer and entrepreneur, the third co-founder of Ramp, the New York City financial-operations company started in March 2019 with Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh.

Gene Toombs

Gene Toombs is an American business executive who led MiTek Industries, a Missouri supplier of roof-truss connectors and software, and arranged its 2001 sale to Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

GeneMind Biosciences (真迈生物)

GeneMind Biosciences (真迈生物), also known as RealBio, is a Chinese gene-sequencing company founded in Shenzhen in 2012, known for the GenoCare 1600 single-molecule sequencer approved for clinical use in 2022.

Geneoscopy

Geneoscopy is a St. Louis-based life sciences company developing noninvasive stool RNA diagnostics; its ColoSense test won FDA approval for colorectal cancer screening in May 2024.

Geneplus Technology

Geneplus Technology (吉因加) is a Chinese oncology precision-diagnostics company founded in 2015 by former BGI executives, selling hospital-based NGS cancer tests, companion diagnostics, and MRD monitoring; it filed for a Hong Kong IPO in December 2025.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was a multilateral treaty signed at Geneva in 1947 to cut tariffs, folded into the World Trade Organization in 1995.

General Agreement on Trade in Services

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (WTO GATS) is the World Trade Organization's multilateral treaty on trade in services, in force since 1995 after the Uruguay Round.

General Atlantic

General Atlantic, also known as General Atlantic Partners, is a New York-based growth equity firm founded by Chuck Feeney in 1980, managing about $126 billion.

General Atlantic Investment Partners

General Atlantic Investment Partners is a series of Delaware private equity pooled funds, spanning vintages 2013 through 2025, raised and managed by the New York growth-equity firm General Atlantic.

General Catalyst

General Catalyst is an American venture capital firm founded in 2000 in Massachusetts by Joel Cutler and David Fialkow, known for backing Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap.

General Catalyst Group X - Early Venture

General Catalyst Group X - Early Venture, L.P. is a $600 million Delaware limited partnership serving as the early-stage fund vehicle of Cambridge, Massachusetts venture firm General Catalyst.

General Catalyst Group X - Endurance

General Catalyst Group X - Endurance is a $700 million venture capital fund raised by General Catalyst in 2020, managed from Cambridge, Massachusetts, with 133 accredited investors.

General Catalyst Group X - Growth Venture

General Catalyst Group X - Growth Venture is a $1 billion growth-stage venture fund formed in 2020 by General Catalyst, a venture capital firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

General Catalyst Group X - Health Assurance, L.P.

General Catalyst Group X - Health Assurance, L.P. is a $600 million venture capital fund created in 2021 by General Catalyst of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to invest in digital health.

General Command of Workers

The General Command of Workers (Comando Geral dos Trabalhadores, CGT) was a Brazilian national inter-union organization created in August 1962, which organized the country's first national political strikes before being dismantled after the 1964 military coup.

General de Galerías Comerciales

General de Galerías Comerciales is a Spanish shopping-center developer founded by Tomás Olivo López in 1995, known for La Cañada in Marbella and Nevada Shopping in Granada.

General Electric Company (UK)

The General Electric Company (GEC) was a British electrical and electronics conglomerate, founded in London in the 1880s and unrelated to the American General Electric.

General equilibrium analysis

General equilibrium analysis is an economic modeling method that determines prices, quantities, and welfare by requiring all markets in an economy to clear simultaneously, not one market in isolation.

General equilibrium theory

General equilibrium theory, also called Walrasian equilibrium, models an entire economy at once, asking whether one set of prices can clear all markets simultaneously; Arrow and Debreu proved existence in 1954.

General Federation of Korean Trade Unions

The General Federation of Korean Trade Unions was a right-wing South Korean union federation founded in 1946, later becoming the Federation of Korean Trade Unions.

General insurance

General insurance, also known as property and casualty insurance, is insurance other than life insurance, covering car, home, liability, and commercial risks on short terms.

General Insurance Corporation of India

General Insurance Corporation of India, known as GIC Re, is India's state-owned reinsurance company, incorporated in 1972 and ranked the 9th largest global reinsurer in 2025.

General ledger

The general ledger, also called the nominal ledger, is the complete record of all a business's accounts and transactions, serving as the master record from which financial statements are prepared.

General manager

A general manager (GM) is the executive accountable for a business unit's overall results with authority across its functions, from hotels to corporate divisions to sports teams, where the GM handles roster construction, contracts, and trades.

General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA)

The General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA) is the United Arab Emirates' federal pension fund for Emirati nationals, operating under Federal Decree-Law No. 57 of 2023.

General store

A general store is a rural shop selling groceries, dry goods, and hardware, historically serving as the credit, banking, postal, and social center of its community.

General strike

A general strike, also called a mass strike or popular strike, is a work stoppage by workers across many industries and whole communities to achieve economic or political goals.