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Women's Conference 2008: Indra Nooyi

Anna — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:50:00 EDT

[Long Beach, California; October 22. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

Book editor Julia Cheiffetz is royally P.O.'ed ...

Jessica — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Book editor Julia Cheiffetz is royally P.O.'ed that Malcolm Gladwell's new book about extraordinary achievers, Outliers, does not include a single woman. "What about Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag, Tina Brown, or Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo? What about Oprah?" Cheiffetz asks in the Huffington Post, before adding, "The omission of women in Outliers says more about the nature of 'big think' books than it does about Mr. Gladwell. Since the publication of The Tipping Point in 2002, we've seen a proliferation of books that present a single, shrink-wrapped idea as a means of understanding the world at large…until we get in the ring and start claiming our own big ideas in book form, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised if current discourse leaves us on the sidelines." [HuffPo]

Orphaned Baby Deer Makes Us Melt • Indra Nooyi Named Most Powerful Woman By Forbes

Maria — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:30:00 EDT

• Squee! This baby deer, delivered via c-section after its mother was hit by a car is officially The Cutest Thing, Ever. • Speaking of C-sections, a new study has found that pregnant Asian women whose male partners are Caucasian are more likely to have a Cesarean than white women who have Asian or white male partners. • On Saturday, a Florida man was robbed by four women wearing overalls with no shirt or bra underneath and one larger woman wearing overalls with a long-sleeved shirt. • Sad news: The Louisiana home of author Kate Chopin burned to the ground early this morning. •

• The number of HIV infections in gay and bisexual men in China jumped from 0.4% in 2005 to 3.3% in 2007 and women with HIV in Yunnan increased by 27.9%. • A British nurse at a nursing conference has revealed that she gave a disabled teen boy an artificial vagina to ease his sexual frustration. • Indra Nooyi, the chairman and CEO of Pepsi Co. was ranked the most powerful woman of 2008 by Fortune. • A recent Australian study suggests that women who smoke have a greater chance of developing major depressive disorder over non-smoking women. • A Portuguese woman was arrested in England while still in her wedding dress after police spotted her with a man who wasn't her new husband immediately after the ceremony. • A Happiness Index study suggests that Australian men are the happiest while having sex or using the internet while Australian women enjoy eating a meal with family and playing with pets or children. • The London Zoo will seek $10 million to create a new big cat enclosure after it found that a male and female tiger were fighting rather than mating. • A German choir makes a splash at the Cologne Philharmonie with songs made up of grumblings and moans about everyday things. • A 27-year-old Florida woman punched a 17-year-old boy and threatened him with a baseball bat after he refused to hand over the TV remote. • A Washington state man was sentenced to 26 years in federal prison for forcing or manipulating young women into becoming prostitutes—charges that he denies. • A Michigan woman picked her 92-year-old grandma to be her matron of honor at her wedding because she is her "best friend." • Bankruptcy among senior citizens has increased due to the increased presence of debt, rising prices for ordinary consumer products and a lack of a safety net for fixed-income seniors when a medical emergency hits. • British women spend nearly $53 million a year on corrective surgery as a result of wearing high heels for too long and too often. • A 70-year-old woman from Kentucky who took up fencing less than 20 years ago is preparing to compete at the World Cup in Paris for the senior fencing champion title. •

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Tops Forbes List Of Most Powerful Women

Jessica — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:30:00 EDT

Forbes just released its list of this year's 100 most powerful women, and it's a fearsome collection of heads of state, captains of industry, and entertainment giants. Coming in at #1 is Germany's first female Chancellor, Angela Merkel, she of the towering intellect (and towering cleavage). Another notable in the top ten is Indra K. Nooyi, the head of PepsiCo, who is the highest-paid female CEO in America and, as we previously mentioned, makes one-fourteenth of how much Larry Ellison, head of Oracle, pulled in last year. Forbes notes that fewer than 3% of of the country's biggest companies have female CEOs, and while women constitute 46% of the American labor force, they hold only 15% of the top corporate jobs.

But in this unfortunate economic climate, that 15% is still hurting, as Forbes points out that many top women in business, like beleaguered former Morgan Stanley exec Zoe Cruz, have lost their jobs this year. There are, of course, still many impressive business bitches holding it down, including #8 Ho Ching, the head of Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek, #18 Mary Sammons, the CEO of Rite Aid, #19 Andrea Jung, the CEO of Avon, and #60 Judy McGrath, the CEO of MTV.

Angela Merkel is also in good company, with stateswomen like Argentinean President #13 Cristina Fernandez and deposed Myanmar Prime Minister/ Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, not to mention our girl Hillary Clinton at #28.

The list isn't all politicians and businesswomen: Meredith Vieira (#61) edges out Katie Couric (62), Barbara Walters (63), Diane Sawyer (65), and Christine Amanpour (#91) to be the most powerful woman in news, and architect Zaha Hadid comes in at #69. Whatever their professions, however, these women are much more impressive feminist icons than Candace Bushnell or Jenna Jameson.

100 Most Powerful Women [Forbes]

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Why Do We Know Lauren Conrad & Not Indra Nooyi?

Dodai — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:30:00 EDT

She doesn't live her life in the public eye or weep attractively on MTV, but Indra Nooyi is worth knowing about: She's the highest-paid female CEO in America. Ms. Nooyi, head of PepsiCo, took home a whopping $12.7 million (including $4.5 million in bonus pay) last year. It's serious cash, for sure. But it's one-fourteenth of how much Larry Ellison, head of Oracle, pulled in last year. His salary was a "modest" $1 million, but he had $182 million from vested stock options. A lesson: When you run one of the largest companies in the world, you don't make as much as the next guy… if you're a woman.

Forbes reports (via MSNBC) that when calculating the cash pulled in by male CEOs of America's largest companies, the average take, including salary and bonuses, for all 500 CEOs was $12.8 million — double the female average of $6.5 million. But one of the most interesting things about Ms. Nooyi and some of the other top-earning female CEOs — Andrea Jung (Avon), Anne Mulcahy (Xerox), Christina Gold (Western Union) — is that you never really hear a damn thing about them.

Or maybe you do. Maybe you read the business section and the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. But maybe there just aren't as many stories about Ms. Nooyi and other female CEOs? A Google search turns up 93,100 results for Indra Nooyi; Larry Ellison returns 1,280,000. Lauren Conrad? 2,520,000 (Even Audrina Patridge gets 599,000. Six times Ms. Nooyi's number.) It's not that a Google search proves your worth, or that all those hits make Lauren Conrad a worthwhile person. It's just a way of asking: Why, in our escapist, entertainment-addicted society, do we place so much importance on certain women, when there are other hard-working ladies struggling to keep up with men in global business, where it really counts?

America’s Highest Paid Female CEOs [MSNBC]
Top-Returning Female CEOs (Slideshow) [Forbes]

Women Rule At The Time 100 Party

Jennifer — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:30:00 EDT

Last night in New York, Time magazine hosted a reception honoring its self-selected 100 Most Influential people of the year and, I have to say, the women in attendance were a cool bunch: Arianna Huffington, Martha Stewart, Angelica Huston, Wendy Kopp, Tina Fey, Madeeha Hasan Odhaib, Elizabeth Gilbert, and others. And since today's my last day as a full-time Jezebel, I've decided to focus less on the clothes and more on what they've accomplished. On the whole, these are women sans stylists: They're all Good in my book! (Though Wendi Deng's dress is a little unforgivable.)

The Good:
Amy Poehler: Actress, comedienne, Christian Siriano copycat.
I can only hope that Angelica Huston was invited for her amazing turn in The Darjeeling Limited as a mother/Buddhist nun who doesn't know what to talk about when we talk about love.
Ann Moore, left, is the CEO of Time, Inc. Indra Nooyi, right, is the CEO of Pepsi Co. Donatella Versace would be happy, surely, to see women in power wearing dresses.
Arianna Huffington: She writes books, she runs blogs, she wears ballgowns.
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, which was apparently a little smug, highly readable and very "influential." (I hate that word.)
Georgina Chapman designs for Marchesa and married Harvey Weinstein. I'm not sure if these things, independently or together, make her a person of merit. But what do I know?
Kristen Wiig of SNL: Further proof that women are funny.
Madeeha Hasan Odhaib is the "Mother Theresa of Baghdad." I wonder if George Bush, or even fellow attendee John McCain, even care.
I love Martha Stewart: She runs an empire and still manages to can her own preserves. Also, she does it in heels.
Mary Lou Jepsen founded Pixel Qi and was also the founding Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop Per Child, which strives to deliver mesh-networked laptops to children in developing countries.
Nancy Brinker, who founded Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is a breast cancer survivor and mother, and was also appointed to the position of Chief of Protocol by President Bush.
Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng: The dark overlord and his whipsmart wife.
Suzanne Vega: She sings.
Sure Baby Mama is supposed to be the anti-Knocked Up or whatever, but more importantly, Tina Fey has brought Liz Lemon and Tracey Jordan into our lives.
Did you participate in Teach for America? Or have eighty gajilliion friends who did? Thank Wendy Kopp, who founded the program, for the experience.
Ziyi Zhang: She acts. Also I am in awe of her bone structure.

[Images via Getty.]