Google Hiring Data Reveals Two Things Women Can Do To Get Hired And Promoted...
Google has launched an effort to make sure it hires and promotes enough women, reports the New York Times's Claire Cain Miller. Because its Google, the company's first step was to analyze data about...
View ArticleMeet The Beautiful Women Who Send Rockets Into Space
On June 18, 1983, a 32-year-old physicist from California shattered the gender barrier, becoming the first American woman in space aboard the shuttle Challenger. That brave lady was the late Sally...
View ArticleBEYOND MARISSA MAYER: 25 Powerful Women Engineers In Tech
There's an awful lot of hand wringing in the Valley over how few women are becoming engineers, particularly software engineers. Less than 12 percent of computer science degrees earned in 2010-11 were...
View ArticleEgyptian Designer Sentenced to 500 Lashes After Crossing Saudi Princess
Human rights activists are pushing for the release of Nagla Wafa, a 39-year-old Egyptian wedding planner, designer, and mother of twin teenagers who was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2009, the Los...
View ArticleRepublican Women Are Sick Of Talking About Contraception
TAMPA, FLA. — Mention of the name Todd Akin here is typically met with eyerolls, sighs, and the occasional shake of the head. The Missouri Senate candidate's "legitimate rape" comments have made him...
View ArticleHappier Women Have Different Genes
What genes you have may play an important role in how happy you are with your life. Especially if you are a woman. New research has discovered a link between a specific type of a gene known as MAOA...
View ArticleWhat Do Republican Women Want?
Outside observers have noted the recent barrage of statements and facts that have repeatedly reminded interested parties that the GOP has a female problem. These pricks of conscience have been an...
View ArticleEveryone Is Talking About Mia Love, The Real Breakout Star From Last Night's...
TAMPA, FLA. — Given that conventions have essentially turned into coronations and media pageants, one of the only real purposes they still serve is to provide a launching pad for rising political...
View ArticleDating Coach Reveals Where You Should Really Go To Pick Up Women
A dating coach has revealed where men should really go to pick up women. "I will say that Bed Bath and Beyond is highly underrated," the coach, a 32-year-old Hollywood resident, said in a Q&A on...
View ArticleHow Ovarian Tissue Transplants Work
For decades, doctors have been working to preserve a woman's fertility while they undergo cancer treatments, which destroy the ovaries. Some women undergo "egg ripening and harvesting" treatments,...
View ArticleWomen And Men Do Actually See The World Differently
Guys' eyes are more sensitive to small details and moving objects, while women are more perceptive to color changes, according to a new vision study that suggests men and women actually do see things...
View ArticleDEMS: The GOP Passed 55 Bills That Are Directly Anti-Woman
Congressional Democrats are helping their party court women voters at their national convention in Charlotte this week. A report (PDF) released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Energy &...
View ArticleHow Ovarian Tissue Transplants Could Change Fertility
Many young women who have to undergo cancer treatment, which could make them infertile, are opting to preserve their fertility by removing and freezing ovarian tissue. When they are in remission and...
View ArticleWomen Are Now The Dominant Gender And It's Turning The World Upside Down
Since the beginning of time, men have ruled the world. But now women are speeding past men in schools, at home and in the workplace, according to Hanna Rosin's new book The End of Men: And the Rise...
View ArticleHow 'Hookup Culture' Is Helping Women Gain Power
The "hookup culture" is helping women gain the independence they need to take over the world. Most scholars think the phenomenon of young people replacing serious relationships with casual ones hurts...
View ArticleThe Best Proof Yet That Companies Benefit From Women On The Board
Kimberly Gladman, Ph.D., CFA, Director of Research The recent Credit Suisse report about women on boards (Gender diversity and corporate performance, August 2012) takes the discussion of gender and...
View ArticleWomen Are Increasingly Acting Like The Dominant Sex
It is inevitable that women will have more and more influence in the workplace. According to the New York Times, "Women now make up 58% of those enrolled in two- and four-year colleges and are,...
View ArticleWal-Mart Might Have To Fight A Massive Sex Discrimination Suit
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected Wal-Mart Stores Inc's <WMT.N> request to dismiss a gender discrimination case filed in California, but said he would rule later about whether the...
View ArticleEx-Pantheon Bigwig Claims Male Partner Called Her Gathering Of High-Profile...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A former principal at Pantheon Ventures, Carol Foster, has sued the firm for gender and age discrimination, as well as defamation, according to a lawsuit filed in Superior...
View ArticleChristine Lagarde: 'Women Can't Have It All'
IMF head Christine Lagarde says women must accept that there will be "failures" if they attempt to juggle a career and raise children at the same time. The 56-year-old is the first female head of the...
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