Source: www.seattletimes.nwsource.com by Natasha Singer 10/17/11
Nancy Brinker, the chief executive of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, years ago promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would try to find a cure for breast cancer.
Nancy Brinker, the chief executive of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, has done more than any other to create what might be called Pink Inc.
Source: www.CNBC.com by Jessica Naziri on 10/10/11
When Alexa von Tobel found herself frustrated with the lack of personal finance resources and tools available to her, she took a formal leave of absence from Harvard Business School in 2008 to pursue her dream of creating a way for women to gain control of their finances.
"When I was raising money, it was the heart of the recession,” von Tobel...
Source: www.WashingtonPost.com by Jean McGregor 10/6/11
At this week’s Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Laguna Niguel, Calif., former Xerox CEO and Chairman Anne Mulcahy sounded a warning to her fellow powerful women. After decades of taking pride in being trailblazers and pioneers as the first female board members at companies, women should now find taking such jobs as the first woman unwise, Mulcahy cautioned. “It's a bad sign,”...
Source: www.ABCNews.go.com by Kim Carollo on 10/4/111
Wearing makeup has a significant impact on how people perceive women, making women seem more attractive, competent, likable and trustworthy, according to new research published this week.
Researchers at Procter & Gamble, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute showed study participants photos of women either wearing no makeup or wearing one of three different cosmetic...
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com Posted by Hayley Miller on 10/3/11
Although the recession initially hit men hard, it's women who have been struggling the most to get back on their feet, according to a report released Monday.
Men lost more jobs than women did in the Great Recession, but their unemployment levels have been steadily decreasing over the past year, the study shows. Women, on the other hand, are facing...
Source: www.Reuters.com by Deborah L. Cohen on 9/28/11
When Glenn Phillips went through a contentious divorce, his company unwittingly came along for the ride.
Phillips, the founder of software consulting firm Forte Inc, estimates his divorce cost him more than $200,000 - about a quarter of his annual revenues at the time - in lost potential new business and add-on business to existing clients. He was regularly pulled...
Source: www.marketwire.com Business Wire Press Release on 10/3/11
It was 25 years ago that Sophie Vandebroek arrived in the United States with a graduate fellowship; $500 and a clear-minded focus on earning a doctorate in engineering. Today, Vandebroek is the chief technology officer of Xerox Corporation XRX -2.22% , and the next inductee into the...
Source: www.Suntimes.com by Sandra Guy on 9/29/11
Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld tops Fortune magazine’s list of most powerful women in business, which noted her “big show of power” this year in deciding to split the Northfield-based food giant into two companies.
In making the decision, Rosenfeld reversed her previous strategy of expanding Kraft by gobbling up other companies, the magazine said.
Rosenfeld, who led a hostile takeover of Britain’s Cadbury in...
Source: www.Bloomberg.com Article by Heather Perlberg on 9/27/11
The world’s top female-led companies have more women in executive positions than the average business in their peer group, according to a report by the Corporate Women Directors International.
Companies with women chief executive officers have boards that are 22 percent female compared with an average of 9.8 percent among all businesses in a study released this...
Source: www.Sacbee.com article by 2020 Women on Boards on 9/27/11
It's now possible to research gender diversity on the boards of the nation's largest public companies and track this information from year to year, thanks to new research by 2020 Women on Boards. The research, called the 2020 Gender Diversity Index, quantifies gender diversity on the boards of the 2010 Fortune 1000 list. The database will be posted to...
