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How To Deal With The Drama For A Happier, Healthier You

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress Management, Women, Barbara Ficarra, Mind Body Medicine, healthin30, Dealing With Stress, Breathing Exercises, Wellness, Breathing, Happiness, The Balanced Life, Living News
Barbara Ficarra

Wouldn't it be cool if we could just choose when we want a little drama in our lives? A little drama is a good thing, but too much can wreak havoc on our health.

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Women: Sleep Might Improve Your Willpower

newsweek.com | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Food Addiction, Women, Cookies, Women's Health, Willpower, Well-Being, Health, Eating, Anxiety, Overeating, Wellness, Sleep, Living News

Your head says it's time to lose a few pounds, but your hand reaches for another cookie. Why is it that even when we want to be good, we end up being ...

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Resisting the Urge to Gossip

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, The Friendship Doctor, Women, Living News, Relationships, Research, Innuendo, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Untruth, Breaking News, Employee, Criticism, Tim Hallett, Rumor, Irene S. Levine, Friendship, Indiana University, Friendship Expert, Gossip, Workplace, Office, Supervisor, Female, Broker, Passive, Breaking Living News, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Managers need to find ways to promote informal communication while minimizing destructive gossip and knife-in-the-back criticism that impairs relationships, lowers morale, and decreases productivity.

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Is There A Feminine Way of Doing Business?

Lotta Alsen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Women, Women in Business, Shareholders, Nobel Prize, Business News
Lotta Alsen

We have a different rationale for starting a business. And because we are different, we also bring in new perspectives.

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Changing the World by Changing the Gender Gap

Leslie Grossman | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Leadership, Gender Gap, Education, Iceland, United States, World, Women, Laura Tyson, Larry Summers, Women in Business, Business, World Economic Forum, Gender Gap Index, World News
Leslie Grossman

There was good news and bad news in the Gender Gap Index. The good news is that the health and education gaps are being closed. The bad news is that the economic and political gaps are not.

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From Caucus Room, Sen. Levin Slams Dick Cheney

Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Charles Krauthammer, Afghanistan, Neoconservatives, Right Wing, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, World News
Taylor Marsh

All that Afghanistan needs is more troops, according to the Krauthammer crew. Well, yesterday, Sen. Levin, the last to speak at the event, made a point of putting them in their place.

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When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins

Elaine Showalter | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: The National Organization for Women, Progressive Book Club, American Women, Gender Equality, Book Reviews, Civil Rights, Women's History, Mad Men, Equal Rights Amendment, Betty Draper, Women, Gail Collins When Everything Changed, Books, Mad Men Betty Draper, When Everything Changed, Gail Collins, Books News
Elaine Showalter

Collins uses her great sense of revealing anecdotes, engaging personalities, representative case histories, resonant stories, and startling details to defamiliarize a decade we thought we remembered.

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Half The Sky: Fighting Gender Violence

The New York Review of Books | Sue M. Halpern | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: Kristof Half the Sky, Women, Sexual Violence, Rape, Violence Against Women, Books, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Child Brides, Gender, Half the Sky, Child Rape, Gender Inequality, Kristof, Sheryl WuDonn, Nicholas Kristof, Child Prostitution, Save the Children, Nyr, Books News

Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Sue Halpern The New York Review of Books Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by N...

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Honduras: Coup D'etat Murder, Mayhem and Lost Civil Liberties

Lys Anzia | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras Coup, Civil Liberties, Women, Women's Rights, Global Politics, Human Rights, World, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, World News
Lys Anzia

Due to the current military state of affairs since June, the World Bank has now completely "paused its lending" to Honduras. This means that numerous humanitarian programs aimed at helping women and children have been completely stopped.

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Women Board Members Make a Difference

Blythe McGarvie | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Women in Business, Governance, Board of Directors, U.S. Business, Financial Results, World News
Blythe McGarvie

When I was in my twenties starting out in business, I asked the septuagenarian man sitting next to me at a meeting held at his private club whether it...

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Why Dont You Do It, Honey?

Marie Wilson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Leadership, Politics, Women, Vel Phillips, Joanne Lipman, Politics News
Marie Wilson

Adding women to the workforce won't change much, but when we add them to corporate boardrooms and executive suites, anchor desks and political office, a change of attitude will inevitably follow.

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What We Owe Afghanistan

Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Women's Rights, Women, Violence Against Women, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, World News
Taylor Marsh

As it now stands, the Afghan women are worse off today than they were when the Taliban reigned. We cannot leave it at that, or Afghanistan will become even more of a corrupt mess.

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When a friend wants more than friendship

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Women, The Friendship Doctor, Boundaries, Living News, Relationships, Tina Tessina, Lesbian, Coming Out, Sexual, Gay, Jealousy, Interview, Advice, Breaking News, Friendship Expert, Dr. Romance, Female, Breaking Living News, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

It's not unusual for platonic relationships to turn into something different or something more. Whenever this happens, regardless of gender, it can le...

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31 Reasons to Mind the Gender Gap

Susan Sawyers | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

Read More: Girls, Leadership, Politics, Women, Gender Gap, Education, Empowerment, Women and Politics, United States, Global Gender Gap Report, World Economic Forum, Saadia Zahidi, Laura Tyson, Ricardo Hausmann, Cherie Blair, Women's Funding Network, World News
Susan Sawyers

When it comes to the gender gap, the United States is in a bad spot. Out of 134 countries, our democratic nation comes in 31st place.

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Naissance Capital: New Fund Invests In Companies With Female Managers, Anticipates High Returns

Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Women, Mckinsey, Testosterone Finance, Testosterone Risk Taking, Financial Crisis, Testosterone Irrational Risk, Women in Business, Naissance Capital, Traders Testosterone, Business News

More than a year after overleveraging and mismanaged risk provoked a financial crisis that sent the global economy on a perilous downward spiral, anal...

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Ten Tremendous Women Who Never Married

Samara O'Shea | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Florence Nightingale, Louisa May Alcott, Anne Boleyn, Coco Before Chanel, CoCo Chanel, Queen Elizabeth the First, Jane Austen, Joan of Arc, Clara Barton, Gloria Steinem, Oprah, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Cassatt, 19th Amendment, Henry VIII, David Bale, Marriage, Women, Christian Bale, Living News
Samara O'Shea

The following women serve as a sweet reminder that you don't need anyone but yourself to live an incredible life and have people remember you long after you're gone.

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Preventing and Addressing International Violence Against Women

Zainab Salbi | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Afghanistan, Violence Against Women, Iraq, DRC Violence, World News
Zainab Salbi

Violence against women is a global epidemic affecting millions of women daily that presents debilitating obstacles to the development of women, their families and communities, and even their national economies.

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Why Breaking Up Is So Hard to Do

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Friend, Women, The Friendship Doctor, Breakup, Living News, Relationships, Toxic, Best Friends Forever, Loss, Collateral Damage, Breaking News, Irene S. Levine, Friendship, Friendship Expert, Workplace, Female Friendship, Work, Breaking Up, Colleague, Breaking Living News, Family, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Women have an extraordinarily difficult time ending their friendships, even very toxic ones. It's not surprising. Like divorce, the potential losses can be staggering, extending well beyond the friendship per se.

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From Media Blitz to Women's Conference: Has Maria Shriver Discerned a Watershed Moment?

Marianne Schnall | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Valerie Jarrett, Activism, The Shriver Report, Working Mothers, A Woman's Nation, John Podesta, Gloria Steinem, Working Women, David Gregory, Obama, California Women's Conference, Maria Shriver, The Women's Conference, Family Leave, Living News
Marianne Schnall

This week, California's First Lady will use the findings to engage participants in her annual conference on women.

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Joanne Lipman: The Mismeasure Of Woman

nytimes.com | JOANNE LIPMAN | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Portfolio, Women's Rights, Women, Portfolio Magazine, Women's Issues, Lipman Women, Joanne Lipman, Lipman Women Issues, Women in Journalism, Women-Journalists, Wall Street Journal, Living News

For the first time, women make up half the work force. The Shriver Report, out just last week, found that mothers are the major breadwinners in 40 pe...

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Reality Check: Women Want Work/Home Equality and Flexibility

Nanette Fondas | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Maria Shriver, Women's Issues, The Shriver Report, Caregivers, Living News
Nanette Fondas

Hoopla has surrounded the news that women have just about reached parity with men, and that women and men agree on much about their evolving roles. Now here comes the reality check.

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A Follow Up: "Hank Moody: For Women Only" (Question)

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Poll, Gender, Cable Television, Media News, Gender Issues, Mad Men, Women, Dating, Relationships, Survey, Don Draper, Cable, Women's Issues, Cable Tv, Hank Moody, Californication, Entertainment News
Reese Schonfeld

Despite at times being self-centered, lewd and at times irresponsible, would you date and/or marry Hank Moody?

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The Missing Piece in a Woman's Nation

Linda Tarr-Whelan | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Women, Women's Leadership, Women in Business, Women's Issues, Workforce, Women and Workforce, Nicholas Kristof, Maria Shriver, Business News
Linda Tarr-Whelan

The tipping point is what I call the "30% Solution" -- the point at which women's voices resonate fully to add the affirmative difference of shared experiences and values.

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Berlusconi Offends 100,000 Women

news.aol.com | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Silvio Berlusconi Scandal, Berlusconi Gaffe, Women, Italy, Berlusconi, Silvio Berlusconi, Berlusconi Gaffes, World News

ROME (Oct. 22) -- More than 100,000 women have signed a petition saying they are offended by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an initiative launched ...

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If It's Art, Must It Be Pornography?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books

Read More: Women, Children, Books, Writing, Media, Sexual Abuse, Strip Clubs, Pornography, Amazon.com, New Yourk Times, Art, Boston Globe, Reviews, Times Picayune, Eve Ensler, Strippers, Andre Dubus, Book Reviews, New Orleans, Army Corps of Engineers, Vagina Monologues, Books News
Georgianne Nienaber

I'm all for freedom expression even when it comes to veiled pornography, but I don't want to be tricked into buying it for God's sake.

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