August 2010
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Howard Kurtz on Why Time is the Last Man Standing....
With “the roof having fallen in” on Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report, as Howard Kurtz puts it in today’s Washington Post, it’s Rick Stengel’s Time Magazine that’s become, as Stengel puts it, the newsweekly “category of one.”
So how does Time manage to stay profitable while the rest of us drown? Various ways. But one of them has to do with...
Vision 2020, Anna Quindlen, and Suffrage
The lovely folks at Drexel University have taken on a massive undertaking, and it launches today, the 90th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. “Vision 2020” will start with a conversation/conference around the issues of women and leadership. Delegates will convene on Philadelphia, talk about best practices, and then return home with a specific mission and plan to help...
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Our Daughters, Ourselves: On Women's Equality Day,...
Ninety years ago today, the 19th amendment was ratified, granting women the right to vote. It was revolutionary, for the time—Alice Paul, then a young political activist, was beaten, imprisoned and force-fed for simply daring that women be engaged in political process. But if our grandmothers were born into a world where they weren’t allowed to have a political voice, what will the world look...
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Should Women Flirt Their Way to the Top? Damn...
Well this is sure to cause an uproar. In today’s ForbesWoman, author Jenna Goudreau posits that women who don’t flirt are ignoring “one of their greatest career assets”—a valuable strategic tool (if used effectively), she says, to climb up the corporate ladder.
“Using flirtation is just smart,” Nicole Williams, the author of Girl on Top: Your Guide to...
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Today in How on Earth Does This Guy Still Have A...
We’ve been on vacation, so have been merrily holding our fingers in our ears pretending not to hear the brouhaha down in D.C. over Brad Peck’s lovely little blog post last week about the gender wage gap and why it’s our own damn fault for insisting on having damn babies all the damn time. Today, with a big sigh, we finally looked at it more closely, specifically to see if he...
“How about creating more flexible workplaces that don’t penalize men or women for...”
– NICE WORK: something you already know about gender & wages | Girl with Pen (via femphil)
We’ve been thinking the same…. more TK.
PS: Happy end of summer everybody! We’ll be back soon, promise.
