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Still More Male Entrepreneurs, Study Shows
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: 2012 Global Report has revealed that there are still more men than women entrepreneurs all over the world. Of the seven economies studied, the Total Entrepreneurial...
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8 NYC Specialized Schools Deal a Blow to Getting More Girls in STEM
Efforts to get more girls on the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) track have suffered a setback—in New York City, at least. Al Baker of The New York Times has reported that...
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McKinsey shares principles to getting more women to the top
There is no secret formula to getting women into leadership positions after all. Joanna Barsh, Sandra Nudelman, and Lareina Yee report in the McKinsey Quarterly April 2013 issue that companies only...
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Leah Eichler Featured on Extraordinary Women TV
Femme-O-Nomics founder Leah Eichler has appeared on Extraordinary Women TV, a weekly broadcast and Internet television talk show that features inspirational and in-depth conversations with women who...
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Warren Buffett: “Women are a major reason we will do so well”
One of the world’s richest men finally offers his perspective on women and the workplace. In an exclusive essay for Fortune Magazine, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett calls himself an...
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Inability to self-promote holds women back: Conference Board of Canada
While women are equipped with the necessary skills to perform well as leaders, they are not exercising “the ability to self-promote.” They hesitate getting their accomplishments known to the people in...
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Parents spend more time in teaching activities with daughters, study reveals
Daughters get a lot more parental time investment than sons in reading, storytelling, and teaching of letters and numbers. This was the finding of a study done by Michael Baker of the University of...
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Hedge-Fund Billionaire Says Children Kill Women’s Focus
Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II says children are a “killer” to a woman’s focus which explains why there are only a few women in the world of macro trading. The Greenwich-based hedge fund manager...
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When Mom Earns More: The News, Views, and Pew Research that Started it All
When the Pew Research Center released their report on Breadwinner Moms, it sparked a spirited discussion, showing just how much the topic has struck a nerve with both men and women alike. Indeed, the...
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Marriage Suffers when Women Earn More: NBER
The quality of marriage suffers when wives earn more than their husbands, according to research from the University of Chicago and the National University of Singapore published by the National Bureau...
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Romances Started Online Less Likely to End in Divorce
If you’re on the lookout for a spouse, ladies and gentlemen, look no further than your computer. According to a latest study, couples who met online have higher levels of marital satisfaction and are...
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Violence Against Women in Canada Costly for the Economy: Study
Intimate partner violence and sexual assault of women in Canada hurts the economy and no comprehensive national policy is currently in place to address the problem. These were the key findings of The...
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Workplace Woes For the Child Free
Up until now, ‘having it all’, in it’s crudest sense, meant enjoying a challenging, well-compensating career alongside a healthy family life that includes a partner, children and maybe the odd yoga...
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Women and humor in the boardroom
Here’s a study that is no laughing matter. Research by Aston University professor of applied linguistics Judith Baxter showed that female bosses are widely perceived to be not funny and most their...
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Guess who gets more flextime – men or women?
Flexible hours, a term that has almost become code in the workplace for women searching to accommodate both their professional life and childcare, is granted more often to women than men, right? Think...
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Worrying is Costly for Women Leaders: study
How do you react when faced with stress in the workplace? Do you take a step back to study the situation or do you charge full steam ahead? Most female executives apparently retreat to analyze their...
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Women and the Changing Landscape of Philanthropy
In The Richest People list of The World’s Highest Givers- Billion Dollar Philanthropists, you see names like Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros, Gordon Moore, Carlos Slim Helú, George Kaiser, Eli...
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When the Gender Gap is a Good Thing: Women and Corporate Crime
One of Hollywood's best female con artists, Glenne Headly in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" The term “gender gap” normally carries a negative connotation. Yet, I think many of us women are willing to live...
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Newsflash: Lack of Mentoring Keeps Women and Minorities from Multiple Board...
In a shining flash of the obvious, a new study confirms what many of us already instinctively know: women and minorities continue to be under-represented on company boards due to a lack of mentors....
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Huge Gender Gap Exists Online: UN report
A report released by the UN Broadband Commission Working Group on Broadband and Gender revealed that there are 200 million fewer women online than men. Called Doubling Digital Opportunities: Enhancing...
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