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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by YWM on February 3, 2012

Today is Wear Red Day for Women’s Hearts

Successful, Equitable Workplaces

The next big fight for equality in the ranks will likely come from women in uniform [New York Times]

Feminist movements have been fighting for equality between the sexes for over a century; asking for equal rights, equal pay, and equal perceptions [Georgetown Voice]

Remarks by the First Lady at Joining Forces Event on Family Medical Leave Act [NewsRoom America]

Seeking novel ways to eliminate the gender pay gap,  Department of Labor announced contest for creating software applications to promote equal pay [MMD NewsWire]

Three years after the Ledbetter bill passed women still earn less than men [Think Progress]

Women still minority in Davos [Bloomberg]

Pregnant and pushed out of a job – yes it can still happen [New York Times]

Saluting Misbehavin’ Women

As Sue Cischke retires, Motor City loses on of its few women executives [Forbes]

The power women of Davos [Forbes]

Girl Scouts celebrating a century, it’s about more than the cookies [New York Times]

Navy remembers fleets first female handler [Military.com]

Female ROTC Cadet excels at OSU [ocolly]

Politics

At 51 percent of the population, and 55 percent of voters, women should require candidates to rethink their pitch to women [The Hill]

Small Business

Survey reveals what keeps women business owners up at night [MarketWatch]

Why the global economy needs businesses to invest in women [The Daily Beast]

How women are mistreated by the venture capital world [Inc]

Health

Caffeine alters estrogen levels in younger women [New York Times]

Editorial: Birth Control and Reproductive Rights [New York Times]

VA publishes regulations on newborn care [BusinessWire]

Gen Y

The challenges facing Gen Y women [Forbes]

Next generation of women leaders will emerge faster when we stop trying to act like men [Forbes]

Veterans/Military

BPW/Columbia, SC holds women veterans summit [Midlands Connect]

Female vet and former Black Hawk pilot has problems with transition [New York Daily News]

Challenges contributing to homelessness may be more pronounced for women veterans suffering from “disabling psychological conditions” [USGovInfo]

Homeless women veterans on the rise [Time]

Mentoring

Canadian researchers determine mentoring helps women who have suffered abuse [Pych Central]

Michelle Obama talks about being a mentor [White House Blog]

Other Important News

Fierce outcry on Komen decision of defund Planned Parenthood [New York Times]

Editorial takes issue with Komen Foundation decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood [New York Times]

Women’s Professional Soccer League has cancelled their 2012 season [Huffington Post]

Why are women better at buying cars? [NPR]

New Facebook App connects women [AllFacebook]

Don’t fall for untrue smears against Girl Scouts [Washington Post]

Voice over trailer work scarce for women.  Men’s voices more “credible” [New York Times]

Can feminists like fashion? [Forbes]

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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by YWM on January 27, 2012

January is Mentoring Month – Mentor a Woman Veteran or Military Spouse

Successful, Equitable Workplaces

Must women pry the board room door open? [The Glass Hammer]

Davos expects rise in female executive attendance [eFinancial News]

The path for getting more women in senior leadership [Forbes]

Men out earn women in all US areas except in one a tiny town in FL [BizJournals]

Should pregnancy be treated as a disability? [Wall Street Journal]

Walmart faces long battle on sex discrimination despite court win [Huffington Post]

Women 100 years away from board parity [HRM Today]

Just because there are only a few women CEOs doesn’t mean we are not successful [Forbes]

Mentoring

Michelle Obama on personal service, mentoring and giving back [More]

Giving back to women veterans and military spouses who have given so much to us [Huffington Post]

A Miss America contestant’s cause, “Mentoring: Investing in Tomorrow’s Future Today,” focuses on positive impact a mentor can have on children [Examiner]

Cherie Blair on why women should become mentors [Huffington Post]

Politics

Number of women in politics declining [Charlotte Observer]

Small Business

Five lessons for daughters taking over the family business [The Grindstone]

Gen Y

Gen Y: The new workforce [The Next Web]

Saluting Misbehavin’ Women

Little Pink Book lists top 11 women in philanthropy [Sacramento Bee]

All female Seabees Team makes history in Afghanistan [Los Angeles Times]

Female engagement teams build rapport with Afghan women [Gazette]

Walmart promotes African American woman to run Sam’s Club.  One of Fortunes Most Powerful Women [Loop21]

Woman veteran goes from drugs and suicide attempt to helping others [New York Times]

Health

Secrets from the world’s healthiest women [CNN]

STEM

Organizations for women in technology formed in the past thirty years follow a “separate but equal” doctrine [Venture Beat]

Math study provides clues as to why women don’t excel at chess [New York Times]

Veterans/Military

Part two in the series “The Battlefield and the Barracks: Two War Fronts for Women Soldiers” [Truth-Out]

GAO report shows VA’s shortcomings in dealing rising number of homeless women veterans [Government Executive]

Number of homeless female veterans more than doubles [MSNBC]

Woman Veterans Coordinator responds to gender PTSD study [Swords-to-Plowshares]

Other News You Can Use

Social Enterprise trains women philanthropists in Angel investing [Just Means]

A complex portrait emerges of black women who feel confident but vulnerable, who have high self-esteem and see physical beauty as important, who find career success more vital to them than marriage [Washington Post]

New definition of rape finds men struggling for awareness of how rape has affected them [New York Times]

Are pink Legos just building stereotypes?  [NPR]

A scientific look at the dangers of high heels [New York Times]

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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by YWM on January 20, 2012

January is National Mentoring Month – Sign Up to Mentor a Women Veteran or Military Spouse -

Successful, Equitable Workplaces -

More young women are covering campaigns [Politico]

Does it pay to be one of the guys at work? [Forbes]

38 years after passage of legislation designed to enforce workplace equality, the Equal Pay Act is often violated [KStateCollegian]

Empowered Work Force

How the gift of mentoring changed two lives [Naples News]

A mentor can help you reach your goals at any stage of your career or life [Chicago Tribune]

Chart showing women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s in 2010 [HR Compliance]

Wal-Mart Women file expanded Texas Class Action [MarketWatch]

Walmart seeks to halt refiled gender discrimination law suits [Insurance Journal]

Rutgers study finds that paid family leave leads to positive economic outcomes [National Partnership]

Health

New recommendations for older women and bone tests [New York Times]

VA says women veterans getting screened for cervical cancer [DODLive]

Women’s groups file Supreme Court brief supporting Health Care Reform Law [National Partnership]

Small Business

Women have to shine to attract investments in their businesses [Women2]

California, Texas and New York have the most women owned businesses [Gisuer]

Are women more careful entrepreneurs than men? [Forbes]

Do men and women bring different skills to entrepreneurship? [FastCoExist]

Three in four women small business owners see more tough times in 2012 [Insurance News]

STEM

Encouraging biotechnology workplace diversity [BioTech Now]

Gonzaga University awarded grant aimed at bringing more women into STEM careers [Spokesman]

Gen Y

Millennial Women are burning out at 30 and starting their own businesses [Forbes]

Other Interesting Items

Professional women rate 6 biggest mistakes businesses make when marketing to women [SFGate]

Men and women are still both from earth despite study showing “brain” differences [Huffington Post]

Commission on Status of Women to get budget ax in CA [SFGate]

A furor over gender marketing for Lego toys [Huffington Post]

Dr Pepper’s bizarre “not for women” ad campaign [Forbes]

NY area female retail workers experience low pay, little health insurance, scheduling instability and an abuse of part-time job status. [Women's eNews]

Politics

Political Parity’s drive to help women win office [The Daily Beast]

15 women GQ could have named to its most powerful in Washington list [Think Progress]

Why women still won’t run for office [Elect Women]

Military/Veteran

Film, “The Invisible War” takes on rape in the military [Huffington Post]

Jill Biden writes children’s book about military family’s struggles [Huffington Post]

The Battlefield and the Barracks: Two War Fronts for Women Soldiers.  Why Do Soldiers Rape? Part 1 of a 5 part series [Truth-Out]

Female vets struggle to find work [WWLP]

Cengage and BPW Foundation partner to support women veterans with career transitions [InfoTechSpotlight]

PTSD—an equal opportunity disorder—rates are same among male and female vets of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, with about 18 percent of both groups [KQED]

About one in five women and one in one hundred men reported that they’ve experienced military sexual trauma [MotherSatWar]

The double trauma of war and sexual assault by “brothers-in-arms” in the military leaves women feeling unsafe [Truth.Out]

The first VA patient to receive all of her prenatal care from the VA [SL Tribune]

Panetta announces new measures to combat sexual assault [Stripes]

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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by YWM on January 13, 2012

Empowered Workforces

Women are opting into career advancement strategies, including mentoring, and giving up work life balance [Forbes]

According to Ginny Rommety, IBM Chief Ex, women round down rather than up when assessing their skills [HBR]

Its time the U.S. adopts paid family leave [WomenseNews]

Women have a hard time taking credit for their success [Huffington Post]

As more husbands stay at home to support their wife, we see the rules changing [BusinessWeek]

During past 50 years, women have advanced in the American workforce yet still often receive lower salaries than male colleagues [IB Times]

Since 2009 recovery began, women have only added 43,000 jobs; picture’s even bleaker for female veterans, who just can’t seem to catch a break [Jezebel]

Successful, Equitable Workplaces

Corporate Boards: shifting from aging men to a new generation of women? [Forbes]

Tools and training prepare managers for workplace flexibility [SHRM]

Ball State University investigates lack of women professors [The Star Press]

Health

New York Times editorial: The Republican Party vs. Reproductive Rights [New York Times]

Odds and Ends

High hopes that 2012 will be a good year for women [New York Times]

Women are a mystery to Stephen Hawking [Reuters]

Roughly half of the planet’s visionary leaders are women and they have probably spent years wishing they could change something, or everything, about their bodies and their looks. [Business2Community

Thanking the women who paved the way [Huffington Post]

On Jan. 12, 1915, the US House of Representatives voted, 204-174, to reject a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote. [New York Times]

Small Business

White House helping small businesses drive innovation [WhiteHouse.gov]

STEM

Meet a top female engineer for GM [Freep.com]

A survey by HSN showed that women outstripped men in their interest in owning electronics [Huffington Post]

Gaming keeps gaining among women [emarketer]

Gen Y

The future of work? Here area the top 10 employers of Gen Y [Forbes]

Millennial Women Battle Mentors: Article on disconnect between older mentors. [Forbes]

Saluting Misbehavin’ Women

Judy Smith recently named to the Women in Aerospace board of directors is a supporter of mentoring [Black Engineer]

Veterans/Military

Female engagement team is first for Michigan National Guard [Mlive.com]

Jobless rate for young female veterans climbed in 2011 [Stripes]

Women at War: women’s growing military roles out pace their health care [Stripes]

Joining Forces: Helping women veterans move into new careers [ICDCollege]

Mentoring programs help veterans make the transition [Career Builder.com]

Members of the US women served in the Cadet Nurse Corps are the only uniformed WWII service people not to be considered veterans. [MPNNow]

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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by YWM on January 6, 2012

January is National Mentoring Month

Successful, Equitable Workplaces

Women deserve equal pay [News Review]

Organizations can’t afford to not accelerate their investment in women. Mentoring is one way to help. [Diversity Journal]

Flexibility at work might improve employees’ health [EHSToday]

Wall Street steps up recruitment of women [Registeredrep]

Empowered Work Forces

Business women in Oklahoma are mentoring women in Afghanistan and Rwanda [NewsOK]

Part time work could provide best balance for moms [Yahoo]

Less than half of Generation X women said they are motivated to do it all, but the majority believe that is what is expected of them. [Media Post]

Women are dropping out of the labor force but not forever; instead, they seem to be postponing their working lives to get more education [El Paso Inc via NY Times]

Health

Houston VA selected as women’s health research site [Cypress Times]

Saluting Misbehavin Women

Army’s first female 4 star general meeting demands of changing army [Military.com]

Female Quapaw tribe member named Oklahoma’s Veteran of the Year [Star Tribune]

Woman Marine Veteran remembers her time in the Marines after Pearl Harbor [Tampa Bay Online]

Women of Steel: using Margaret Thatcher’s name in vain [New York Times]

Women’s eNews announces its 21 leaders for the 21st Century 2012 [WomenseNews]

 Small Business

What is in the DNA of women lead start-ups? [Women2.0]

Women in the emerging market [Huffington Post]

Here are some women who are rising to the top and disrupting the space that they are in [Daily Disruption]

STEM

Wanted technical women: STEM education [US News]

CISCO’s Padmasree Warrior advocates for women in tech and believes in mentoring  [Gigaom.com]

Veterans/Military

The untold story of our women veterans [The Veterans Site]

Women change face of combat & VA care [UT San Diego]

Reflections on the Iraq war:  Biggest losers were both Iraqi women and US women soldiers [OPEDNews]

Victim advocates want radical overhaul of how the military handles sexual assaults [Stripes]

Military women are still waiting [HTRNews]

Other Items of Note

After violence and misogyny the blue bra becomes a symbol of women’s power  [Washington Post]

The U.S. ranks 40th in the world for women’s political empowerment and we’re losing ground. Real democracies are truly representative and women need to vote. [Huffington Post]

Study: Women’s expectations don’t match their motivations [BND.com]

Sexism and top ten lists [Forbes]

10 most ridiculous quotes about women in 2011 [EcoSalon]

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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by YWM on December 30, 2011

Empowered Workforce

Instead of work young women are postponing work and careers for more education [New York Times]

Without sponsorship from senior leaders, women don’t have the exposure and experience needed to get ahead. Sponsorship doesn’t happen as naturally for women as it does for men.  [Women at the Top]

Why women lowball other women [Forbes]

Successful  and Equitable Workplaces

Women playwrights and gender stereotypes on Broadway [New York Times]

How to retain talented women at the top [Venture Beat]

STEM

How universities fail women inventors [Business Week]

Still Talking about Gender

Does stripping gender from toys really make sense? [New York Times]

Lego bets on the girls and misses the mark [Hello Ladies]

The truth about boys and girls: challenging toxic stereotypes [Columbia.edu]

Small Bushiness

A new book on fathers and daughters: passing on the family business and the problems that can crop up [Business Week]

The case for women entrepreneurs and leaders [Fox Business]

Self-employed men more likely to have employees than self-employed women [Forbes]

If moms can’t find it; they invent it. Women entrepreneurs [New York Times]

Health

No links seen between HPV vaccine and girls sexual risks [New York Times]

Saluting Misbehavin’ Women

The Forbes 10 most interesting women of 2011 [Forbes]

Forbes woman of the year: Women in Tech [Forbes]

Ginger Miller helping other women veterans [Washington Post]

Woman’s Army Corp clippings are a prize for Women’s Memorial [ocala.com]

Starting in 1978, Grete Waitz showed the world women could run safely run 26.2 miles [New York Times]

Veterans/Military

Female vets talk joblessness and homelessness [CBS News]

Military academies report more sexual assaults [Washington Post]

VA issues new regulations on care of newborns of women veterans [Third Estate]

Bio-feedback program helps women veterans [SB Sun]

Female veteran looks back at Christmas in Fallujah [Mesquite Citizen]

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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by YWM on December 23, 2011

Equitable and Successful Workplaces

In keeping with the holiday spirit, did you know that Santa’s reindeer are female? [SantaLady]

Where are the women of color at the top of corporate America? [Harvard Business Review]

Where are the women on the Forbes’ list of 30 under 30? Tech is worst with only 2 [Forbes]

Labor Department’s Women’s Bureau launching new public education efforts including an Equal Pay Checklist [womensorganizations]

The Post Office is an employer that ensures women equal pay for equal work and has been a haven for veterans seeking a stable career path. [Delmarva Now]

Workplace sexual harassment allegations are not easy to prove and can be costly to defend. [KCENTV]

Women’s pay still lags behind men’s as gap slowly closes [PennLive]

Corporate barriers include the “old boy’s network” which view women as untested, unknown, and riskier [Archinect]

Better balanced and diverse leadership leads to more successful businesses – based on brain science [Huffington Post]

Equality at work for women: is this as good as it is going to get? [Forbes]

Empowered Workforce

Black males (and women of all races) fail to network and be mentored effectively. [Examiner]

Women senior executives prefer to wear black to work [Wall Street Journal]

Saluting Misbehavin’ Women

Hillary Clinton’s next act: Making half the world’s leaders women [Blogher]

Meryl Streep battles for Women’s History Museum [Womensenews]

First female, African American mayor elected in Indiana has her work cut out for her in Gary [NPR]

Oldest woman veteran boosts efforts to help today’s vets find jobs.  [NBC]

The most loved power women of 2011 [Forbes]

Western Kentucky University woman elected first female head of national veteran student group [BF Daily News]

A missing chapter in Air Force history – the WASPS [The Moderate Voice]

Power women 2011: the winners and losers [Forbes]

A misbehavin’ woman – the penis mom [Huffington Post]

Veterans/Military

PEW study: Female veterans more likely than male counterparts to disapprove of Iraq and Afghanistan wars and are more likely to have seen combat that women in the past [Chicago Tribune]

Black women enlisting in the military at higher rates than whites or Hispanics [New York Times]

VA suffers growing pains as it serves women [Sun Journal]

Women veterans and under employment [AliceFisher]

Gen Y

Will Gen Y change the 8 hour day? [Time]

Small Business

Start up program for women in mobile tech in NY offers dollars and mentoring [Wall Street Journal]

Government program looks to serve women entrepreneurs [Entrepreneur]

Three reasons women start fewer businesses than men [Washington Post]

Developing countries have higher percentage of entrepreneurial women [Huffington Post]

Health

Some things we can’t change about our risk for breast cancer, some things we can. What’s in our power to shift. [Forbes]

Other News of Interest

Feminism’s uneven success [New York Times]

FBI director approves more expansive definition of rape [National Partnership]

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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by YWM on December 16, 2011

Successful, Equitable Workplaces

A look at working women since they have entered the work force in great numbers [The Republic]

Who’s afraid of post-feminism – what it means to be a feminist today [Forbes]

A push to put more women in the halls of power [Miami Herald]

Gender Intelligence Summit – discussed the neurobiology of gender: True inclusiveness isn’t merely about numbers, but understanding that women work and lead differently than men, and that companies can benefit from those differences. [Glasshammer]

For anchor women today, family is part of the job [New York Times]

Empowered Workforce

Obama administration calls for home care workers to qualify for federal wage and overtime protections; could affect 2 million workers [USA Today]

A good mentor can steer you to success. But nearly 1 out of 5 women say they’ve never had a mentor at work. [NPR]

Are we running faster and working harder to get ahead in the world or just to get equal ground? [PegFitzpatrick]

Black women have lost more jobs during the recovery than they did during the recession [Washington Post]

Success has no gender. Men need to make themselves available as mentors to both men and women. [Good Men Project]

STEM

WH Blog: engaging girls using games and digital computing [WhiteHouse.gov]

Where are the women executives in the Silicon Valley? [New York Times]

Will 2012 be the year for women in Tech? [Forbes]

Saluting Misbehavin’ Women

Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, the first nurse and first woman sworn in as Army’s 43rd surgeon general [Army.mil]

Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize [Wall Street Journal]

WWI nurse honored for aiding US troops during Battle of the Bulge [Stripes]

Michèle A. Flournoy,  one of the highest-ranking women in the history of the Pentagon, will step down to “rebalance” her personal life [New York Times]

L’Oreal and Hearst announce Women of Worth 2011 awards [Lucire]

Female WWII pilot gives $2 million to flight nursing program [PRNewsWire]

Veterans/Military

Special military units bridge cultural divides and are dangerous work [Inforum]

Army identifies soldiers killed in Kiowa accident – one is a woman [Army Times]

C.O.D.E provides BPW Foundation $100,000 grant to support mentoring women veterans [Examiner]

Women veterans battle PTSD [Wisn.com]

Women Veterans deserve more [Argus Leader]

NY Times Editorial: Injustice for Women in Uniform – on Congress’ refusal to lift ban on abortion in cases of rape [New York Times]

Editorial: Remove ban on women in combat [Virginia Pilot]

Saluting Misbehavin’ Women

Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, the first nurse and first woman is the Army’s 43rd surgeon general [Army.mil]

Three women who fought injustice, dictatorship and sexual violence accepted the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize [Wall Street Journal]

WWI nurse honored for aiding US troops during Battle of the Bulge [Stripes]

Michèle A. Flournoy,  one of the highest-ranking women in the history of the Pentagon, will step down from her job to “rebalance” her personal life [New York Times]

L’Oreal and Hearst announce Women of Worth 2011 awards [Lucire]

Female WWII pilot gives $2 million to flight nursing program [PRNewsWire]

Violence Against Women

Nearly 1 in 5 women report having been sexually assaulted [New York Times]

A federal judge dismisses lawsuit filed against former defense secretaries Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates by military members and veterans who said they were victims of sexual assault [Washington Post]

Health

More good news for coffee drinkers – 4 cups of coffee may cut endometrial cancer risk in women [New York Times]

Other Important News

Fewer Americans are getting married [Wall Street Journal]

Best jobs for women in 2012 [Forbes]

Andrea Jung, Avon’s long time CEO is booted [Forbes]

They call it the reverse gender gap.  Women as heads of households out earning men  [New York Times]

HERvotes turns focus on top issue for women in upcoming election [AFL-CIO]

Why is military active duty ‘Serving Our Country,’ but parenting Opting Out? [Forbes]

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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by YWM on December 9, 2011

The Economy

Women dropping out of the labor force [New York Times]

Mancession fades as more men than women are finding jobs [Forbes]

Women are not getting their fair share of jobs in the latest economic recovery [Forbes]

HERvotes Blog Carnival calls for extension of Unemployment Insurance [HERvotes]

Successful Workplaces

Study says women in Calif. are a century away from breaking the glass ceiling [Los Angeles Times]

Women won’t see pay equity until 2056 unless we act now [Unions.org]

Empowered Workforces

Women in government; help a sister out [Washington Post]

Women spend more time multitasking but pay an emotional toll [Tennessean]

Working moms multitask and stress more than dads [NPR]

Why women leaders need self-confidence [HR]

Do women need to learn to take more risks to get ahead? [CBS News]

Mentoring and manicures: Are women’s networking intended to provide fashion or business tips?  [Forbes]

Gen Y

Gen Y Women: Challenges for attraction and retention [Evolved Employer]

What employers need to know about Gen Y Women [Diversity Executive]

Don’t believe all you read about Gen Y women [ShEO]

STEM

Women in the technology industry lack prominent female role models and mentors, makes it challenging for a woman to envision herself at the top [Blogs.amd]

Veterans/Military

The VA videos with women veterans telling stories of their military experiences [US Generation]

A Sundance film: The Invisible War—is about the rape of soldiers within the U.S. military, the cover-up, and the consequences  [Bleeding Cool]

Women veterans get their due at VA [Saipan Tribune]

C.O.D.E. gives $100,000 to BPW Foundation to support women veterans [Veterans Enterprise]

VA issues guidelines for handling sexual trauma [Navy Times]

Saluting Misbehavin’ Women

CA female teen takes $100,000 science prize [Paper.Li]

First female to lead Miss. Air Guard [Clarion Ledger]

High school’s first female  ROTC program leader no stranger to breaking barriers [Clarion Ledger]

Of interest

Gender Intelligence: Why wiring makes a difference we should embrace [The Glass Hammer]

Advertisers and marketers set their sites on Latina women [New York Times]

U.S. Department of State announces Women in Public Service project [State Department]

Men may support reproductive health, equal pay for equal work, and ending violence against women but some take issue with the way some feminists choose categorize all men as the enemy [Fem2Pt0]

Small Business

Why women have to work harder to do start ups [Venture Beat]

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Women’s News to Chew On: Link Love for Lunch

Posted by sherrysaunders on December 2, 2011

Successful Workplaces

The high cost of the gender gap [Wall Street Journal]

KFC Pays $227,000 to Resolve Sexual Harassment Lawsuit [The Job Mouse]

Empowered Workforces

Public and private policies impede women and families from achieving economic self-sufficiency [Bucks News]

The pay gap between genders and how to approach pay negotiations [FreeThought]

Women Leaders Need Self-Confidence [HBR]

Women should never be forced to choose between motherhood and their livelihood–pregnancy discrimination on the rise. [Star Tribune]

Gen Y

Gen Y women prioritize work-life balance [The Grindstone]

What Gen Y women want in the workplace.  [NCRW]

Small Business

Women face a venture capital glass ceiling also [Miami Herald]

Saluting Misbehavin’ Women

Meet the women behind the Brooklyn Nets [Forbes]

Time Inc., the nation’s largest magazine company, appoints Laura Lang as its new CEO [Wall Street Journal]

Korean War veteran gets her long awaited and deserved medal [MENAFIN]

Marilyn Tavenner nominated to head Medicare [Washington Post]

Navy’s first CPO laid to rest [Military News]

Veterans/Military

For women veterans unique problems and little help [Tampa Bay News]

Women in the military who become pregnant as a result of rape are still denied abortion coverage under their health plans [Huffington Post]

Soldier happy to be a mom again [Military.com]

Think you know what women do in the military?  Think again [Chronicle]

Other Items of Interest

Why women should man up and wear heels [Forbes]

Should we worry because our daughters still want to be princesses? [New York Times]

Senate Judiciary Committee introduced legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) [White House]

Are Gen X Women overlooked? [Huffington Post]

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