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Women Farmers a Force in Fighting Global Food Shortages: Report

Women can help prevent hunger, says the United Nations on International Women's Day.READ»

Nearly 20% of Female Chinese Managers Are CEOs

Among China's female workforce in managerial positions, 19% hold the title of CEO, according to the Grant Thornton Business Report released this week.READ»

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Massive Change Ahead in Middle East: Women Control $700 Billion and Counting

Wealthy female investors in the Middle East are increasingly focused on the environmental and social returns of their investments--not just financial returns. According to Gulf News, women control 22 percent of the region's assets, ...READ»

The Best Erection Pills to Combat Erectile Dysfunction

There are a lot of companies out there claiming to make the very best erection pills for men suffering from erectile dysfunction, but real victims need results, not unsubstantiated promises and wild claims. That’s why the people at ...READ»

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Infographic of the Day: The Female Orgasm, by the Numbers [SFW]

67% of women fake it! Meanwhile, 70% of men know where the clitoris is--but astonishingly, only 75% of women do.READ»

Financial Women's Association Honors Exceptional Women in Business

At the annual dinner of the Financial Women's Association held at the Grand Hyatt in New York last week, two high achieving women were honored with the titles of private and public sector women of the year. Evelyn Lauder, ...READ»

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The Role of Mentoring and Networking for the Advancement of Women in Technology

Technology companies have made strides to create more diverse work environments and women have less barriers to advancement than they did a decade a ago, according to a survey conducted earlier this month by Catalyst, a New York-based ...READ»

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Have women broken the glass ceiling?

A recent survey entitled Workplace Insights, showed that while almost all American workers believe that women have made important strides in business over the past ten years, 86 percent surveyed still felt the glass ceiling was very ...READ»

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Constructing women

 The construction business was once hostile at best to women in the field. Many women suffered sexual harassment and pressures from their male counterparts to leave the job. Around 1980, the government began cracking down on the ...READ»

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Helping working moms work it out

It seems that workplaces and women have been talking about how to manage a family and a career for years now, and yet there still seems to be no one clear cut answer. That perhaps is because there likely is no magical answer like ...READ»

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Women downplaying femininity in the workplace

Today's blogpost is inspired by Today's Big Idea. "Women shouldn't downplay femininity in the office; they should use it as an asset." This quote was taken from “What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should): Timeless ...READ»

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Breaking the mold

In starting this blog, I wanted to make sure that I offered coverage of women in business that was not being offered elsewhere. One suggestion about this coverage came from Gail Evans, former executive vice president of CNN and ...READ»