This weekend the third annual Women's Forum for the Economy and Society was held in France. At the event PricewaterhouseCoopers presented the results of its study of women in the workplace across eight countries, including several European countries, China and India. The surprising results are reported in the Guardian today:...
The Find: Recent resignations of women in top leadership positions have one economist wondering if the executive positions given to women are more precarious than those entrusted to their male counterparts or, to put it another way, whether many professional women aren't standing on the edge of a...
Byline: By ANDREW HIRST Deputy News Editor A WOMAN out walking her dog saved a Huddersfield call centre from being gutted by fire. But the former Greenberg Glass Emergency's national call centre at Crosland Hill was still badly damaged by the inferno, which broke out early...
If Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state, it could not have escaped the attention of the Clinton and Barack Obama camps that this might turn out to be a nifty launching pad for her to make another run at the presidency in 2012. What secret codicils...
Among the many new "rights" being conjured out of thin air, a new one seems to be a "right" to win. Americans have long had the right to put their candidates and their ideas to a vote. Now there seems to be a sense that your rights...
NEW YORK, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of the 2008 election, a new poll on sexism from The Daily Beast, an operating business of IAC , found that registered American voters view feminism very negatively. Yet American women overwhelmingly believe they are being treated unfairly in the...
Haverford's Eileen Chambers Offers Practical Financial Advice to Young Professionals at the Women in Business Society's "Breaking through the Glass Ceiling" Conference RADNOR, Pa. -- For the next generation of investors, learning to manage their wealth and finances early is an essential step towards a lifetime of successful...
Quantum[TM] Total Light Management System Improves Comfort and Productivity While Saving Energy COOPERSBURG, Pa. -- A breakthrough light management system from Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., recently installed in a new, landmark Manhattan office tower, is achieving a "stunning" 70 percent energy savings compared to the ambitious energy-efficiency benchmark...
Adrian Vargas came to America at age 4, running across the U.S.- Mexico border with his mom. Now 23, the silk screen artist from San Jose speaks perfect English, graduated from Lincoln High, started a business and rejoices in the election of Barack Obama. "He makes me...
The Costas Kondylis-Designed Condominium offers Contemporary Aesthetics and State-of-the-Art Triathlon-Training Facility NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexico Group has hired Rubenstein Public Relations RPR for its 31-story luxury condominium tower at 67th Street and First Avenue, Richard Rubenstein, president of Rubenstein Public Relations, announced today. ...
A 3,735 s/f retail condominium located at 207 East 57th Street, which is currently occupied by Urban Archaeology, is on the market for sale exclusively through Eastern Consolidated. Situated in the ground floor of Place 57, a new 36-story luxury residential development, Urban Archaeology is a high-end home...
Osbert Lancaster Wallace Collection The elegant pocket cartoonist whose work genially documents middle-class bafflement at the moral revolution taking place in post- war Britain. To 11 Jan 2009 Gerhard Richter Serpentine Gallery 4900 Colours: a random pixelation abstract with 4,900 units...
Breaking the political glass ceiling; women and congressional elections, 2d ed. Palmer, Barbara and Dennis Simon. Routledge 2008 260 pages $31.95 Paperback Women in American politics HQ1236 Now in its second edition,...
DANVILLE DOES what it can after dark. There are the requisite spots -- an Irish pub and a sports bar -- for a wealthy city of about 40,000. But now, a new wine bar is breathing much-needed life into this one-drag hamlet. Bridges opened the Vine...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4abbb3/most_powerful_wome) has announced the addition of the "Most Powerful Women in Indian Business-2008" report to their offering. They span generations and are there in every field, From Tractors to television, from biscuits to banking, from HR to hospitals. Denied entry into a...
The main difficulty with the Diablo Actors' Ensemble production of "Hold Please" is the script. Southern California playwright Annie Weisman had a good idea -- to take a look at women in the workplace in a 21st century, post- feminist environment. It is a...
WASHINGTON, AFP — "Historic" might be the most overused word of the White House race, yet the spellbinding plot twists of 2008 have undeniably made this campaign one for the ages. Conventional wisdom lies in tatters after a race which shattered glass ceilings of race and gender, obliterated...
SCRANTON made the big time this year. Sort-of native daughter Hillary Clinton was shaking glass from her hair as she hammered away at that ceiling. Native son Joe Biden was tapped to be the Democratic veep pick. Native son Bob Casey Jr. made lots of new friends at the...
THE TECHNOLOGY IS different and the glass ceiling may be showing a crack or two, but not much has changed in corporate America for those at the bottom of the ladder. And it's just these workers -- the receptionists and secretaries who hold businesses together -- that playwright Annie Weisman...
The Women's Jewelry Association's local chapter named Vickie Riggs the winner of its 2008 Design Competition. Riggs' design, titled "Breaking the Glass Ceiling," was a reflection of the progress made in the last 25 years, she said in a news release, with the ring including "stair-steps to the...
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