Despite the enduring stereotype that girls are less proficient with numbers than boys, a new study suggests there is no longer any such difference
In the two years since Warren Buffett decided to give the bulk of his $53 billion fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and charities run by his three children, his youngest son Peter, 50, has said little about his philanthropic plans for his share - stock likely to be worth well over $1 billion - which has kept the nonprofit world buzzing.
Dr. Anne Nedrow gets the e-mails every day -- e-mails from women patients linking to Web sites of dubious quality.
Dutch researchers are developing a blood test that could predict the onset of menopause and the decline of fertility
Nicole Kidman has urged world leaders and ordinary people to join the global fight to end violence against women
The actress and mom-to-be says she's "emotionally connected" to the issue
As a mature woman -- at least chronologically -- I don't spend a lot of time thinking or worrying about menopause.
Carme ChacÓn is not only the first woman to head Spain's armed forces. She is also seven months pregnant
When she heard that a unit of the U.S. Navy planned to award contracts worth $5.4 million for disposing of hazardous waste in her area, Elizabeth Novak was ready to bid.
Greater efforts must be taken to combat the growing trend of violence against women and end the "climate of perpetual fear" they face, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.
Despite the enduring stereotype that girls are less proficient with numbers than boys, a new study suggests there is no longer any such difference
In the two years since Warren Buffett decided to give the bulk of his $53 billion fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and charities run by his three children, his youngest son Peter, 50, has said little about his philanthropic plans for his share - stock likely to be worth well over $1 billion - which has kept the nonprofit world buzzing.
Dr. Anne Nedrow gets the e-mails every day -- e-mails from women patients linking to Web sites of dubious quality.
Dutch researchers are developing a blood test that could predict the onset of menopause and the decline of fertility
Nicole Kidman has urged world leaders and ordinary people to join the global fight to end violence against women
The actress and mom-to-be says she's "emotionally connected" to the issue
As a mature woman -- at least chronologically -- I don't spend a lot of time thinking or worrying about menopause.
Carme ChacÓn is not only the first woman to head Spain's armed forces. She is also seven months pregnant
When she heard that a unit of the U.S. Navy planned to award contracts worth $5.4 million for disposing of hazardous waste in her area, Elizabeth Novak was ready to bid.
Greater efforts must be taken to combat the growing trend of violence against women and end the "climate of perpetual fear" they face, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday.
Use these activities to encourage your students to learn about and appreciate the significant roles that women have played in shaping the world.
March is Women's History Month, a federally recognized, nationwide celebration that encourages all Americans to reflect on the ways in which women have shaped U.S. history. But how did this celebration come to be, and why is it held in March?
Valerie Gooding is in the top five most powerful businesswomen in Europe as named by the Financial Times.
No child should ever have to live in fear in their own home. A home should be a place where you feel safe and loved; when I was a kid, our home was anything but that.
Bloomberg L.P., the news and financial services company, was accused by the federal government Thursday of discriminating against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Madison Square Garden employee testified Monday that she had consensual sex with New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury, contradicting earlier claims by a former executive suing the organization for sexual discrimination.
Researchers are still figuring out the dangers and benefits of hormone replacement therapy, but two new studies give a boost to estrogen as a defense against dementia
Sales of the Plan B "morning-after pill" nearly doubled in the past year, exceeding expectations after the U.S. government allowed adults to buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription.
Sales of the Plan B "morning-after pill" nearly doubled in the past year, exceeding expectations after the U.S. government allowed adults to buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription.
Though leftist parties hold power in countries like Bolivia, pro-choice activists are finding themselves on the defensive
A new study shows that for younger post-menopausal women, estrogen may actually reduce the risk of heart disease
As we celebrate the 35th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation that bans sex discrimination in schools, many people ask me what greatest challenges facing gender equity in college sports are? What, if any changes, should be made to Title IX to improve it? First, let me start off saying the impact of this omnibus education law has been nothing short of stunning with regard to increasing opportunities for girls and women to participate in high school (904 percent) and college (456 percent) varsity sports. However, there is still much work to be done.
Women exercise power horizontally. I've said this often -- in speeches about women leaders, in Arianna's latest book ("On Becoming Fearless"), and at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, an annual event that I chair. Not that women aren't gaining clout vertically. These days a businesswoman must oversee some $6 billion in annual revenues to make it onto Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women list. That compares to around $1 billion when we started ranking corporate women in 1998.
Check out the websites below that are targeted to women, minorities and students who are thinking of starting a business.
The standardized image is pasted all over the mass media. Whether it's Hollywood, the runway or glossy magazines, the message is very clear: Look like this and be sexy.
Which states are the most entrepreneurial? Which have the most women-owned businesses? Here are snapshots of a few noteworthy locales.
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You're a bright, thrusting young executive who has just completed an MBA and is dead set on heading to the top.
Corporate women made impressive strides in 2006, taking charge at a slew of giant companies, and bringing in big paychecks to boot.
Barr Laboratories stock rallied Monday after the drugmaker said it was meeting with the FDA about possibly getting its controversial morning-after birth control pill approved for use by women over age 18 in the United States.
HEAR THE PHRASE "woman-owned business," and what pops into your mind? Chances are it's a tiny enterprise, probably a sole proprietorship, maybe even home-based, whose customers are strictly local--...
When I met Leo, Paul and Tom at a domestic violence shelter here in Sarasota, Florida, it was hard to believe the three men's story: that they were victims of physical abuse at the hands of their female partners.
Hear the phrase "woman-owned business," and what pops into your mind? Chances are it's a tiny enterprise, probably a sole proprietorship, maybe even home-based, whose customers are strictly local--...
Hear the phrase "woman-owned business," and what pops into your mind? Chances are it's a tiny enterprise, probably a sole proprietorship, maybe even home-based, whose customers are strictly local--a real estate office, say, or a clothing store.
In a major turnaround, Wal-Mart will begin stocking Plan B contraceptives -- commonly referred to as the "morning-after pill" -- at all of its pharmacies, the company said Friday.
The following profiles feature prominent women in the fields of politics, law, sports, science and business.
March is Women's History Month, a federally recognized, nationwide celebration that encourages all Americans to reflect on the ways in which women have shaped U.S. history. But how did this celebration come to be, and why is it held in March?
Men work more than women ... on the job anyway ... at least in terms of overall hours.
Australia's lawmakers have voted Thursday to remove regulatory control of a controversial abortion drug away from the health minister.
Wal-Mart pharmacies in Massachusetts will be required to carry emergency contraception pills after the state's pharmacy board ruled in favor of three women who filed complaints two weeks ago against the mega chain for refusing their prescriptions.
Wal-Mart pharmacies in Massachusetts must carry emergency contraception pills, the state's pharmacy board has ruled.
Australia's federal lawmakers have a rare chance to vote outside party lines this week and go with their conscience on what has become a fevered debate on abortion.
THE WORLD SURE HAS CHANGED SINCE Sheila Wellington, a newly minted Radcliffe grad, got her first job 50 years ago. Before he would hire her, the interviewer insisted that she sign a note promising ...
Abortion rights groups jumped into action Friday immediately after Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation, saying her loss from the Supreme Court's bench puts women's reproductive rights in jeopardy and urging President Bush to choose a moderate justice.
Marcia Veidmark, 56, has been running her Phoenix-based construction firm since 1969. She has 30 employees, owns 89% of the stock, and was recently recognized by the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce as ...
On August 26, 1920, the United States took a giant democratic leap when Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving millions of American women the right to vote for the first time in the nation's history.
Morgan Stanley will be the target of the first sexual discrimination case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against a Wall Street firm when the trial begins Wednesday, according to a published report.
Let's say you're reading this while relaxing poolside in Las Vegas (lucky you). There's a good chance that whatever you're lounging on was made by Debbi Somers's company. As the name says, Somers C...
When she talks about politics, Hattie Bryant, a TV producer in San Diego, sounds like a typical entrepreneur--a majority of whom lean Republican, according to polls. "We need fewer liberals in Wash...
Menopause is a normal part of a woman's life that is brought on by declining levels of estrogen and progesterone, which trigger the end of regular menstrual cycles.
When Anne Stevens wakes up at 4:15 a.m. to exercise, her husband, Bill, makes coffee and breakfast for her. She leaves the house at 6:15, heading for the firing line of Ford Motor's turnaround effo...
When Leslie Wallace began having symptoms of menopause five years ago, her doctor prescribed Prempro, a combination of the hormones estrogen and progestin (synthetic progesterone). She wanted relie...
The day Debby Hopkins blew into Lucent, Jim Lusk intended to despise her. Lucent's interim chief financial officer for a stretch this year, Lusk was the guy due to get the top financial job if Chie...
For many female entrepreneurs, finding startup money seems like an impossible dream. Although $22.7 billion in venture capital flowed into the U.S. economy during the first quarter of 2000, accordi...
Before Dwight Eisenhower, men's heart attacks were marked by whispered rumors and hidden recoveries. Before Norman Schwarzkopf and Andy Grove, prostate cancer was borne in silence and shame. Until ...
When Carly Fiorina was competing to become the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard earlier this year, she stood out not because she was a woman--two of the four finalists were--but because she had never wor...
As men age, they lose their brain cells at rates up to three times faster than women. Then again, men typically have more brain cells to lose. Please keep those biologically uncontested facts in mi...
When it was introduced last month, the emergency contraceptive Preven made the evening news and the front pages. The attention is easy to understand: American women have an estimated 2.7 million un...
Once upon a time, a good corporate wife was to be seen and not heard. She was to make sure nothing, but nothing, came between her man and his work. She was to shield him from the tedious and distra...
DEAR READERS: It's a very odd state of affairs (no pun intended): Sexual harassment in the workplace has been illegal under federal law since 1977, and in the past two decades has unquestionably go...
THIS MONTH: --A new way to keep financial planners honest --Websites that help you plan for retirement --Small investors fight for rights.
Sexual harassment. Wage disparities. The glass ceiling. It's not as if women need another hurdle to deal with in the workplace. But here comes one anyway: A recent survey suggests that women execut...
POSTMODERNISM, IN 75 LINES OR LESS
Shoya Zichy's pale-yellow living room on the Upper East Side has become an unlikely refuge for some of the best and brightest career women in New York City. In the past year they have made the pilg...
MEMO TO PRESIDENT CLINTON: While you and the rest of the Beltway bigwigs consider re-engineering affirmative action programs that favor minorities, the nation's 60 million working women might not c...
THE COMEBACK OF ENGLISH
DURING AN ANNUAL industry gathering, the regional manager of a communications giant began to feel warm. The air conditioner must be on the blink, she thought. But then she realized that everyone el...
LESLIE DANZIGER OF LIGHT Path Technologies in Tucson can't actually prove that being a woman hindered her efforts to raise money for her company, which makes powerful optical glass for cameras, bin...
It starts innocently. You're at a dinner party and toss off a flip remark about how men are more aggressive investors while women simply don't take risks. An awkward silence descends. All you can h...
For students and parents, one of the top campus concerns these days is sexual harassment. To help you and your child learn more about the problem and how to deal with it, MONEY Guide writer Echo Mo...
Tailhook. New rules on college campuses against romances between professors and students. A controversial book that purports to tell the real story of Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. And of course ...
The debate over sexual harassment in the American workplace has been thrown into greater turmoil by the record $1 million damages awarded this week to Sabino Gutierrez, a former manager of a Califo...
We bring assorted grievances to this item, beginning with an entry some might deem trivial: the new story line in the Blondie comic strip. Dean Young, the strip's author, denies that his latest plo...
TALK FOR A WHILE with any woman who has worked her way to the top of a sizable U.S. corporation. You'll get a strong sense that she feels a bit like Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard when he improvi...
EVER SINCE October, when Anita Hill told America -- before an all-male Senate committee -- that she had been sexually harassed by her former boss, Clarence Thomas, female victimitis has been spread...
Most corporate leaders shun the divisive issue of abortion. But many leading businesswomen in Chicago support RU486, the abortion pill made by a French subsidiary of Germany's Hoechst. This, despit...
IF GIRLS are tougher and more resilient than boys, as many developmental experts insist, why do they so often seem to plunge deeper into unhappiness when they hit their teens? Adolescence -- no pic...
February 12 was the release date set by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), so the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the San Francis...
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up adumbrates the rise of public toplessness to burning issuehood in American politics while also invoking Sigmund Freud and % asking the fateful question: What does the...
As a 21-year-old rookie with the Milwaukee police force a dozen years ago, Lauri Schwefel used to accept male officers' off-color humor and sexual innuendos as part of the job. ''I'd be with a bunc...
As is well known, the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), the Women's Legal Defense Fund (W.L.D.F.), the Fund for the Feminist Majority (F.F.M.), and their ever eager collaborators in the med...
DRESSED in delicate batik or colorful silk, most Asian women act charmingly deferential to men. But don't be fooled by outward appearances. A seemingly demure, fluttering creature may actually be a...
Something's nibbling away at your savings. The average interest rate on NOW accounts (interest-bearing checking accounts), where Americans have $300 billion stashed, has been steadily eroding. In e...
HERE'S A TWIST: Suddenly men have to worry about gender equality. A cadre of consultants, academics, and executives say Mr. Hardcharging Manager could soon be out of a job. In his place they see a ...
A shadow crossed the saturnine countenance of Keeping Up's senior editor for social policy. Groaning loudly, he flung the New York Times editorial page to the floor, stormed across the room to his ...
Question of the month: What do American women think of the American women's movement? Actually, we had not formally identified that as the QOTM until the New York Times lengthily raised the questio...
A mere fortnight has passed since your correspondent last sounded off on sexual harassment, and yet it is already time to retread this fascinating turf and ponder whether a certain decision in the ...
-- We were sitting there reading an absorbing new book called What Do Our 17- Year-Olds Know?, by Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn Jr., and concluding that the general answer is Not a Whole Lot, w...
''Bush Acts to Stake Out Own Plank for '88; Pay Equality Included'' was the twitch-inducing headline in the newspaper the other day. Etiology of our spasm: that ''pay equality'' reference. The inst...
Ambitious corporate women may have a lot of problems, but they cannot complain about a shortage of career advice. Books aimed at them are still flooding the stores. None have been big best-sellers,...
Judith Waters, a professor of psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University who gives seminars on sexual harassment, reports that the biggest problem she encounters initially with managerial groups ...
Schoolmasters face widespread sexual harassment from classroom ''Lolitas,'' according to a report . . . by Britain's second biggest teaching union. The survey . . . says that 45% of the male teache...
The liberal feminist agenda has been pushed hard in the U.S., but the pushing has mainly been done by politicians and ''movement'' stalwarts. Not many professional economists have been promoting th...
Hey, what ever happened to the women's movement? Have women maybe decided they don't exactly need the movement? If not, why is it slowly sinking from sight, leaving policy analysts everywhere with ...
A Topanga Canyon nudist camp, facing a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by a Pasadena man, has agreed to stop charging men higher prices than women. Attorneys in the case said the camp, Elysium Fie...
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