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Millennial Women Don't Want Top Jobs, Says Study

(107) Comments | Posted June 19, 2013 | 3:20 PM

Millennial women may be saying "no" to the prospect of having high-powered jobs later on. A new study claims that young women just aren't very interested in being the top executives of high-profile companies, reported BusinessNews Daily.

The research, conducted by PR firm Zeno Group, found that only...

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'The Bachelorette' Season 9, Episode 4: Desiree Hartsock Finds Mr. America In Atlantic City

(6) Comments | Posted June 17, 2013 | 7:51 PM

The fourth episode of "The Bachelorette" should be renamed "How To Feign Excitement About New Jersey." Chris Harrison shows up at the remaining contestants' dude-bro pad in L.A. to inform them that Desiree has flown the coop to ... Atlantic City! While Des talks about how excited she is to...

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Women's Magazines vs. 'Serious' Publications -- Can You Tell The Difference?

(19) Comments | Posted June 17, 2013 | 1:32 PM

Can women's magazines produce "serious" journalism? That is the question posed -- and answered affirmatively -- by Jessica Grose in a piece for the New Republic published Monday.

Last week, Port Magazine (a publication that most people probably hadn't heard of before this all happened) published its...

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Lindsay Mills, Edward Snowden's Girlfriend, Becomes An Internet Sensation: 6 Ridiculous Things That Have Been Said About Her

(63) Comments | Posted June 12, 2013 | 11:23 AM

Lindsay Mills became famous this week -- not because of anything she did, but because of the man she dated. She was identified as the girlfriend of Edward Snowden, the man who claimed responbility for leaking classified documents about the National Security Agency's secret...

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'Pretty Little Liars' Food Horror Video Reveals The Show's Eating Issues

(43) Comments | Posted June 11, 2013 | 6:56 AM

"Pretty Little Liars," ABC Family's addictive teen soap opera/thriller has a problem -- a food problem.

The hit show centers around the lives of four best friends in the fictional East Coast town of Rosewood. The young women are tormented by the murder of their...

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'The Bachelorette' Season 9, Episode 3: Desiree Hartsock Loves Dodgeball And Cowboys

(2) Comments | Posted June 10, 2013 | 7:41 PM

The third installment of Desiree's search for a man-child fiance includes three games of dodgeball, five fake cowboys and one lying contestant. Welcome to true love, y'all.

Chris Harrison opens the third episode by popping by the "Bachelorette" mansion and informing the remaining dudes that there will be two...

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Resource, Nestle's Premium Water, Is For 'Trendy,' 'Higher-Income' Women

(132) Comments | Posted June 10, 2013 | 11:03 AM

Haven't you always said to yourself, you know what the world needs? "High-end" bottled water for ladies.

We thought so. Luckily, Nestle is here to fill the apparent void in the current "premium bottled water" market.

Nestle's Resource will join other bottled-water brands like...

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Female Villains: Here Are Our 7 Favorite 'Bad' Women In Movies

(30) Comments | Posted June 7, 2013 | 11:30 AM

Badass lady villains are few and far between.

As Dan Wohl at The Mary Sue pointed out this week, there are plenty of men who grace the silver screen as menacing, formidable "bad guys," but not so many women. He argues that it's just as

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BDSM Correlated With Better Mental Health, Says Study

(2205) Comments | Posted June 5, 2013 | 11:56 AM

People who are into kinky sex may be psychologically healthier than those who are not, says a new study. Researchers found that people who were involved in BDSM -- bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism -- scored better on certain indicators of mental health than...

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Swiffer Says It Will Remove Rosie The Riveter Images From Its Ads

(678) Comments | Posted June 4, 2013 | 1:08 PM

After complaints over Swiffer's use of the famed Westinghouse Electric "We Can Do It!" image to sell cleaning products, the company has agreed to remove the offending ads.

The image depicted a Rosie the Riveter-like figure and was spotted by Heather Beschizza over the weekend:
...

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Peter Heck, Eastern High School Commencement Speaker: We Don't Need Women CEOs, We Need Invested Mothers

(586) Comments | Posted June 4, 2013 | 11:36 AM

A commencement speaker's comments about women in the workplace has caused some controversy in Greentown, Ind.

Peter Heck, a social studies teacher, delivered the commencement speech at Eastern High School on Sunday, June 2, reported Indianapolis' RTV6. According to the local news station, Heck spoke to the...

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'The Bachelorette' Season 9, Episode 2: Desiree Hartsock And Soulja Boy Are There For The Right Reasons

(5) Comments | Posted June 3, 2013 | 6:36 PM

Welcome to "The Bachelorette": Soulja Boy edition, in which men we hope will never rap or dance again perform an offense to hip hop. But before we can get to the ruin of an art form, Chris Harrison has to explain some "Bachelorette"-dating basics to Desiree's 19 remaining suitors. They...

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Swiffer Ad Uses Rosie The Riveter To Encourage Women To Clean The Kitchen (PHOTO)

(106) Comments | Posted June 3, 2013 | 2:46 PM

When Westinghouse Electric told U.S. women, "We can do it!," to boost worker morale in 1943, we're pretty sure they didn't have household chores in mind. But now, Swiffer is appropriating the famous symbol of female economic power in an ad campaign to sell their cleaning products.

...
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Sleep Deprivation And Sex: Tired Men Think Women Are More Interested Than They Actually Are

(123) Comments | Posted May 31, 2013 | 3:18 PM

Tired men may be more likely to overestimate how interested a woman is in them sexually, says a new study. Researchers found that just one night of sleep deprivation made men's perception of women's sexual interest and intent increase significantly.

The study used a

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Abercrombie & Fitch 'Larger' Female Employees Had To Wear Men's Clothes To Work, Says Former Employee

(55) Comments | Posted May 31, 2013 | 12:37 PM

After weeks of controversy regarding Abercrombie & Fitch's limited clothing sizes for women, its CEO's disdain for customers that aren't "cool kids" and his half-baked apology, we thought that there couldn't possibly be any more frustrating realizations about the clothing brand. After reading

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Bradley Cooper Häagen-Dazs Ad Is Totally Strange, Kind Of Awesome (VIDEO)

(16) Comments | Posted May 31, 2013 | 11:16 AM

Hot man or cold ice cream? That is the dilemma one woman faces in Bradley Cooper's highly confusing new ad for Häagen-Dazs.

We kind of love the idea that a woman mingling with fancy folk at a fancy party would choose a pint of delicious ice...

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Office Sex: 10 Men And Women Share Their Workplace Tryst Stories

(274) Comments | Posted May 30, 2013 | 3:34 PM

Sleeping with your coworkers can be a tricky business. (Just ask Melanie Griffith halfway through "Working Girl.") But according to a recent survey conducted by Business Insider, a whole lot of people get romantically (or physically) involved with their colleagues.

We were curious about the...

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Republican Staffer Calls Intern Candidate A 'Hot' 'Smoke Show'

(237) Comments | Posted May 30, 2013 | 11:11 AM

A Democrat would-be Capitol Hill intern has the opposite party looking out for her career prospects -- or at least one Republican House staffer.

Roll Call got a hold of an email said GOP staffer sent around, attempting to help his left-wing college pal. Why would she...

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Monica Potter Once Lost A Role For Being 'Too Fat,' And Other Revelations From The Hollywood Reporter's Emmy Roundtable

(12) Comments | Posted May 29, 2013 | 4:22 PM

If you put female television powerhouses like Monica Potter ("Parenthood"), Connie Britton ("Nashville"), Kerry Washington ("Scandal"), Kate Mara ("House of Cards"), Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men") and Anna Gunn ("Breaking Bad") in a room together, something great is pretty...

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'Get Britain Fertile': Does This Fertility Ad Campaign 'Shame' Women?

(660) Comments | Posted May 29, 2013 | 10:45 AM

A new ad campaign is attempting to shock women into thinking about their fertility.

The "Get Britain Fertile" campaign, funded by pregnancy testing company First Response, depicts 46-year-old TV presenter Kate Garraway dressed up to look like a "heavily pregnant 70-year-old," reported The Telegraph. The image is...

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