We are not raising our funny girls to be pretty enough. Or we are not raising our pretty girls to be funny enough.
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Good on Disney, which just appointed its highest-ranking woman executive ever! Christine McCarthy is the company’s new CFO after 15 years with the Mouse House. She previously served as Disney’s treasurer and executive vice president of corporate real estate and alliances.
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Things just got a lot better for the working women of New York State—and most of them don’t even know it.
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U-S-A! U-S-A! The United States Women’s National Team defeated Japan 5-2 to win its third World Cup on Sunday, its first title since the 1999 team won it all and changed women’s sports forever. The U.S. was led by Captain Carli Lloyd, who scored three goals in 16 minutes in what many are calling the greatest World Cup final
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I was only 33 in 2007 when my beloved husband, Roy, died from adrenal cancer. Although I have a master’s degree in clinical social work and I work full time in this capacity, little prepared me for coping with his death.
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There are women astronauts. There are women oceanographers. There are women veterinarians. And now there are LEGO women who do all of those things, too!
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Back in February, we watched the Always #LikeAGirl ad during the Super Bowl and thought, “This thing deserves an award.”
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For women entrepreneurs, the United States really is the greatest country in the world. Dell released its first-ever Global Women Entrepreneur Leaders Scorecard this week, and the U.S. emerged as the nation most favorable to women business owners.
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In the year 2018, the literary publisher And Other Stories will only release titles written by women.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced Wednesday that the $10 bill will be redesigned in 2020—and the new bill will feature a woman! (Don’t cry too much for Alexander Hamilton, though—he’ll still appear on the redesigned bill in some fashion.)
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Taylor Swift was not happy when she found out Apple wasn’t planning to pay musicians royalties during a three-month trial period for Apple Music, its new streaming service. On Sunday morning, she took to Tumblr to criticize Apple’s policy and announce that her megahit album 1989 won’t be available for streaming on Apple Music. “We don’t ask you for free iPhones,” she wrote. “Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.”
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With Father’s Day upon us, the role dads play in shaping our future caused me to stop and reflect on my own references on fatherhood: the first being my own father who raised me, and the second being my husband who has been my partner in raising our three sons. I’m thinking especially of how different generations of fathers have encountered different challenges and opportunities.
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