Fortune released its annual list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business today, and, as one might predict, the list features an impressive group of ladies who could probably buy your entire family with their end-of-year bonuses. And while the professional achievements of women from Oprah to Marissa Mayer are…
65-year-old Cathy E. Minehan, dean of the all-women Simmons College School of Management, a small Boston college which launched the first MBA program designed for women in 1975, says that women have a better chance of succeeding professionally without men around.
A Mad Men-esque guide geared towards summer associates at law firms is making waves for advising ladies to wear skirts to appeal to men, makeup to look healthy and competent, and heels to appear more powerful. Ugh. But maybe it's a tad unrealistic to tell women otherwise.
Even though we're all boy crazy and have subpar upper body strength, new data suggests that companies are better citizens when there are more women in the board rooms. Now, if only our periods didn't make us all so crazy!
"The 77-year-old designer and former grande dame of Palm Beach entertaining—in the Sixties and Seventies, her kitchen sat 26 for dinner—awaits guests perched on a chinoiserie-covered bench. She wears white slacks and a vintage Lilly shirt printed with white and yellow daisies, her feet bare but for the bright coral…
Betty James, who, with her husband Richard, invented the slinky in 1945, died last week at the age of 90. Although Richard came up with the idea for the iconic coil, Betty named the toy, and the two marketed and demonstrated it together. Moreover, after Richard up and left for a cult in Bolivia in 1959, Betty took…
Carly Fiorina (rocking that suit, by the way) has an MBA, a stint as a CEO in her background, a 20+ year marriage to another executive type and 2 stepdaughters because children weren't "God's plan" for her. Like a lot of other women, Fiorina probably had to make a lot of choices about the trade-offs between her career…
Vivian W. Yen, the "Iron Lady" of the Taiwan car industry died in Taipei on Saturday at the age of 95. Yen moved to Taiwan with her husband in 1948, a year before Taiwan split from China. She founded and managed the Tai Yuen Textile Company with her husband, which became one of Taiwan's leading textile companies. In…
