Colombia, obsessed with physical beauty, is also obsessed with a soap opera starring an unattractive financial whiz who repeatedly saves her inept boss from ruin. Viewers also are forced to take a hard look in the mirror and think about true beauty.
Under a new French law, half of all candidates for political office must be women. And in recent municipal elections, they won nearly half the seats, yet real power remains elusive and women are just beginning to enter the political pipeline.
After 20 years in California’s legislature, Diane Watson was forced out by the term limits that are ending the political careers of many black female state legislators. Now Watson is running for a congressional seat, a favorite to win against 18 others.
Deborah Oppenheimer and Tracy Seretean are part of a growing number of filmmakers who are changing the way that the world sees, hears and receives women’s stories.
The first examination of the number of women in the corporate suites of media companies reveals a disturbingly familiar pattern: The powerful upper reaches of power, prestige and perquisites are still rarely reached by women.
Women mystery writers met in Alaska to learn about death below zero, the workings of frontier shotguns and how to stuff bodies into 55-gallon drums. They celebrated the female sleuth who hunts, kills, quarters a moose–and cooks it for dinner.
For years, Irish women avoided divisive mainstream politics, working independently in their own communities. Today, however, women of all political and religious hues have a new, nonsectarian party: the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition.
A new study says the 1996 welfare law resulted in heads of currently poor families, more than 80 percent of them female, becoming more vulnerable to sex harassment, race or ethnic bias and arbitrary decisions in state-run programs with few rules.
Diversity in top management often signals the success of initial public offerings. Companies with single-gender and monochromatic management are snubbed by today’s business school grads, whether they are looking for a job or an investment.
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