The Democrats' 'War On Women' Message Is A Big Flop
The 'war on women' message worked, but not for long. The new ABC-Washington Post poll shows that the battle between Romney and Obama is likely to be a tight one, and that the economy is the top...
View ArticleIn Some Developing Countries, Economic Growth Is Actually Bad For Female Workers
The triumph of women in the American office place has been perhaps the greatest economic story of the last century. In 1900, only 19 percent of women participated in the labor force. In 112 years,...
View ArticleBrazil Has Its Own 'Real Housewives' Series And It's Even More Extreme Than...
In America, when money is at your disposal, drama usually ensues. But when you combine $15 million jets, bottles of champagne, and the growing luxury market of Brazil with four native women, all you...
View ArticleCollege-Educated Women Start Falling Behind Men At Age 30
The pay gap for men and women just out of college isn't that significant. But the older a woman gets, the wider this gap becomes. According to data compiled by Payscale, college-educated women hit...
View ArticleObama Just Crashed A Conference Call To Urge Congress To Act On Equal Pay For...
President Barack Obama made yet another push for the women's vote today, dropping in on a White House conference call to urge the Senate to pass legislation that would help ensure female workers are...
View ArticleAnxious People Use A Lot More Brainpower To Perform Simple Tasks
The brains of anxious females work much harder than those of males and worrying hinders their performance, according to researchers at Michigan State. The study, which is the first to viably measure...
View ArticleHardware Stores Are Experiencing A Boom In Rope Sales Thanks To A Certain...
The New York Post is reporting that hardware stores in NYC have seen an increase in rope sales over the past several months — and it's not because men are suddenly conquering their to-do lists. Women...
View ArticlePROFESSIONAL WINGMAN: Here's How To Date Women Who Earn More Than You
It wouldn't be surprising to walk into any young woman's home today and find the cover of TIME Magazine's March 26 issue pinned to her fridge. In Liza Mundy's cover story, "The Richer Sex," experts...
View ArticleMichigan Lawmaker Banned For Saying The Word 'Vagina'
Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown was banned from speaking on the floor of the State House today after she used the word "vagina" in a speech Wednesday, according to the Detroit News. Concluding her...
View ArticleHow Amazon's Kindle Made It OK For Women To Read Porn On The Subway
The New York subway system is often referred to as a traveling reading room due to the number of people who pack a book or a magazine for their commute to work. For a certain type of New Yorker,...
View ArticleARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Women Are Completely Wrong About Power
This article originally appeared on American Express Open Forum. Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post, turned a blog into a multi-million dollar media empire in a few short years....
View ArticleREPORT: Southwest Airlines Blocks Woman From Boarding Plane Over Cleavage
Southwest Airlines has issued an apology to a woman who was told she could not board her flight because of "inappropriate" cleavage, according to the New York Daily News. On June 5, a woman identified...
View ArticleWhy This Controversial German Woman Turned Her Back On Money For 16 Years
As we move closer to a cashless society, some consumers are quietly challenging the idea of money in the first place––by giving it up completely. Daniel Suelo, 50, traded his nine-to-five for...
View ArticleWhy Women Still Can't 'Have It All'
Eighteen months into my job as the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department, a foreign-policy dream job that traces its origins back to George Kennan, I found myself in New...
View Article5 Crucial Career Lessons Learned From The Ladies Of 'Mad Men'
When Sunday night rolls around, you know what that means: Time for another episode of Mad Men. Now, before you start feeling guilty for racking up another hour glued to the TV, don’t worry—you’re not...
View ArticleThere's A Military Loophole No One Talks About That's Already Sent Women Into...
I wrote my first post on women in combat back in November of 2011. I had no website then, so it wasn’t published until this past March. Why did I write the piece? I’ve served alongside female Soldiers...
View ArticleTech Companies Just Came Up With A Smart Way To Combat Sexism In IT
It's no secret that the tech world has been a boy's club since forever. You don't have to look much farther than the Kleiner Perkins sex scandal that's been rocking the Valley for proof. A group of...
View ArticlePOLL: Mitt Romney Is Sinking In Three Key Battleground States
It's a good morning for Barack Obama's re-election campaign, with two new polls out that show the President opening up a big lead in key swing states, despite a tight national race. A Quinnipiac...
View ArticleWhy Women Say 'I'm Sorry' More Than Men
Women are more easily offended than men. In turn, they perceive more of their own behavior as improper, requiring an apology: Despite wide acceptance of the stereotype that women apologize more...
View ArticleSTUDY: Do Men Or Women Give More To Charity?
At LearnVest we are all about being smart when it comes to charity: giving what we can to the right causes, and not just around the holiday season. So we jumped when we saw a BiddingforGood study...
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