On Thursday, the world lost a brilliant director, comedian, writer, producer, and EGOT-acclaimed talent when Mike Nichols passed. He did a lot of really important iconic film work, like The Graduate, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? So how about let's talk about Working Girl!
The year was 1988. Margaret Thatcher became the longest-serving Prime Minister of the century, Canada struck down its anti-abortion laws and Joan Jett topped the Billboard charts. Women’s full-time employment had skyrocketed to 52%, university grads were increasingly female, and the wage gap was quickly closing.…
I realize you're probably stressed about everything in your life — and here's one more fun thing to worry yourself ugly about: When you're stressed, you're less attractive to men. I know, it's all so stressful.
On TV and in real life, droves of smart postgrad women are finding themselves unemployed or underemployed. But due to the recession and the contracted job market, girls who are considered especially good looking get pulled into low-paid labor that exploits their sexuality. This isn't sex work per se, and not all women…
Women have finally begun to give up the ghost of any lingering Cinderella or Romney fantasies left after the Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? disaster. According to new research released by the Pew Research Center, for the first time, women care more about having high paying jobs for themselves than their male…
Although women make up half of the nation's workforce, they hold only 16.4% of corporate offices in the Fortune 500, 14.7% of Fortune 500 board seats and 1.6% of Fortune 500 CEO positions (Catalyst 2007). So what's new here?
Well, we could've told you that! But in this case, it's Brandon Holley, formerly of the dearly departed Jane, who's now running lady-site Yahoo! Shine. And so the teacher becomes the student! Well done, Holley-san. [NY Times]
