With the temperature hovering around 100 degrees, Fourera Soumana travels to the market in western Niger with her donkey cart piled high with hand-woven mats. Although hundreds come from all over to sell their wares at this loud, noisy market, Soumana is one of the best known–a 50-year-old widow who runs her own business and is enjoying prosperity for the first time in her life. Soumana is an unusual woman with an amazing success story. To read the complete article, please click here.
Inspiring millions of women around the world, Burns took the helm at Xerox as the first African American woman to head a major U.S. corporation—and the first woman CEO to take the reins from another woman, when Anne Mulcahy stepped down
American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), appointed Kellye L. Walker Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Kellye had been Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Diageo North America, Inc. Read more in the Business Wire press release.
Road to happiness
“We have overstretched our personal boundaries and forgotten that true happiness comes from living an authentic life fueled with a sense of purpose and balance.”
—Kathleen Hall
By Anna Marie Valerio, Business Week
Women are in the majority of those now earning college and graduate degrees. Here’s what business can do to train them for leadership roles. Retaining talented women in corporations is more critical than ever. Successful organizations know that developing individuals who can truly lead in the global economy gives them a competitive advantage. My interviews with high achievers of both genders in Fortune 500 companies and universities have revealed much about leadership today. For the first time in history, the attraction, retention, and development of talented women has become an important issue for many American corporations. To read the complete article, please click here
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Study: Women outnumber men on most social media sites
Step aside, gentlemen. When it comes to social media, it’s a woman’s world. According to data taken from Google’s U.S. Ad Planner, a site that tracks popular Web sites’ traffic, 84 percent (16 out of 19) of social media Web sites are frequented more by women than by men. The Web site Pingdom, which collected the data from Ad Planner, found that 59 percent of Twitter users and 57 percent of Facebook users are female. About 52 percent of LinkedIn users are female. The most female-dominated site is Bebo, which is 66 percent female, followed by MySpace and Classmates.com, each 64 percent female. Bookmarking sites like Slashdot, Digg and Reddit are more popular among men. “If we hadn’t included the three [bookmarking] sites, all of the sites would have had more females than males,” according to Pingdom.
1848: Seneca Falls Convention, first to discuss women’s rights, July 19-20
In 1920, women received the right to vote in the United States with the passage of the 19th Amendment”
1993: Supreme Court rules that sexual harassment in the workplace is illegal
By Eileen AJ Connelly, Associated Press | October 20, 2009
If you need a legitimate reason to pay attention to the tribulations of Jon and Kate Gosselin, follow the money. A court ordered Jon Gosselin to return $180,000, out of $230,000 his estranged wife accused him of looting from their joint account.
This part of their bitter divorce fight reflects a big concern for couples from all walks of life: Is it better to mingle money or to keep finances separated? For some couples, joining finances is as much a symbol of their commitment as combining households. For others, keeping separate accounts is a way to avoid conflict and maintain a measure of independence. To read the complete article, please click here.
