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Women’s work force participation and entrepreneurship are both roaring ahead. But while these gaps are closing, women still have a big problem with financial planning. Let’s resolve to change this in 2013.
International Day of the Girl
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A poll commissioned by Republicans for Choice asks “who decides” a woman’s right to abortion. It’s not a question other polls are asking this year and the results indicate strong support of a woman’s right to choose.
The Hagar and Miriam Project has helped African migrant women in Israel since 2007. It has always operated on a shoe string, but the aftermath of an anti-immigrant backlash to cases of rape in Tel Aviv has brought fundraising to a standstill.
Negative perceptions are still choking off women’s access to careers in science, technology, engineering and math. But if girls are encouraged in the early grades they will benefit, along with the U.S. economy.
The founder of Remember the Women Institute finds the president’s remarks significant given the context. That’s because the sexual violence that occurred during the Holocaust is still not widely recognized.
After the dangerous delivery of her third child, Marie Colonna decided it was time to protect her own longevity. Excerpted from “The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin.”
Profiles of seven outstanding leaders dedicated to improving lives of women and girls:
Susan Blount,
Nancy Duff Campbell– Marcia D. Greenberger,
Joe Keefe,
Yousriya Loza-Sawiris,
Natalia Oberti Noguera,
Sue Osthoff,
Juhu Thukral
Croatian women over 50 and those of childbearing age are having a tough time finding work in an economy saddled with a jobless rate of over 17 percent. Two women from either end of the age spectrum talk about the job bias they live with.
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Cheers
Breast cancer experts cheered two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse, reported Bloomberg Businessweek Dec. 7.