"career-fair" Articles & Blogs:
This week: New York Liberty tickets giveaway contest; sports industry career fair
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Check it out – there’s a giveaway for tickets to the 7/30 New York Liberty game vs the Washington Mystics over at WomenTalkSports.com.
If you work in the industry and you live in New York, it may benefit you to attend the Liberty’s career fair bein...[Read on] |
Danica Patrick: Hot or Not?
| by Ethan Austin.
Ethan Austin is a blogger for Play City, a website that encourages young people to use sports as a catalyst for positive social change
Danica Patrick is moving to NASCAR! Woohoo!!!! She'll be the first woman ever...[Read on] |
In Science, Women Look for Better Career Chemistry
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Roxanne Bales vividly remembers the months she spent at a graduate program in organic chemistry in New England.
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Career Ladder for Japan's 'New' Women Still Tilted
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TOKYO (WOMENSENEWS)--Tanako Nakayama, a 61-year-old librarian, says that when she was young, woman rarely went to college.
If they graduated, they became teachers or telephone operators. Single women in their 30s were called "loser dogs."
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Valerie Plame on Fair Game: I Am Really Good with an AK-47
| If Tuesday’s election didn’t sate your thirst for back-stabbing politics and blatant public deceit, then the cineplex has just the thing for you this weekend: Fair Game. With the gritty, hyperkinetic sensibility that he demonstrated in The Bourne Iden...[Read on] |
Does Testosterone Play a Role in Career Choice?
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ABC News reports on a new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University which supposedly determined that women with higher testosterone levels "take more risks and are more likely to choose a finance career." Testosterone l...[Read on] |
Is Sotomayor Supremely Stylish?
| Never let it be said that the monkeys who bang out these Open Bar columns don’t appreciate the priorities and interests of the audience here at Vanity Fair. Sure, some of you may be interested in reading about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s 1...[Read on] |
Gender Controversy: A debate
| Any big event is going to be with its fair share of controversy. That’s just the way things work. The World Championships in Berlin are no different. Today a story has emerged that has the word written all over it. The women’s 800 meter final is t...[Read on] |
A new low in coverage of Tiger Woods...in Vanity Fair?
| The cover on the latest Vanity Fair, which includes a story by Buzz Bissinger with sordid details about Tiger Woods' extramarital affairs, plays so baldly to racist stereotypes about black, male athletes that the infamous 2008 Vogue cover pales in compar...[Read on] |
Q&A;: Crazy Heart's Maggie Gyllenhaal
| Two-thousand-nine was a very good year for Maggie Gyllenhaal. In February, she appeared onstage in a New York production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya alongside Peter Sarsgaard, her longtime fiancÉand father to their three-year-old daughter. In May, the...[Read on] |
Just Released: Victory for Equal Pay in the Courts
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In a triumphant development for equal pay, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in favor of Mary Lou Mikula, holding that her Title VII pay discrimination claim had been erroneously dismissed on the basis that her charge was not timely. The Na...[Read on] |
Interview with Adrienne Lofton, Senior Marketing Director at Under Armour
| Adrienne Lofton is the Senior Marketing Director at Under Armour. She played volleyball at Howard University and then worked her way up from being an intern at Gap, to positions at GM and Target, to where she is now. I interviewed her as she took a break ...[Read on] |
Go Girl: Pee Standing Up
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The anchor said, "laugh if you want, but the things taking off!" Imagine that, women are tired of dirty toilettes we can't sit on, waiting in long lines, holding it for miles or when in the woods alm...[Read on] |
Mika Brzezinski Reads From Knowing Your Value
| In her new book, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth (Weinstein Books), journalist Mika Brzezinski—Joe Scarborough’s co-host on MSNBC’s Morning Joe—traces her unconventional career path, addressing...[Read on] |
NCAA career development program for women
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University of Minnesota women's softball coach Julie Standering / Photo credit: Gophersports.com
The NCAA is holding a career development program that’s targeting women, announced today. It’s going to be held on December 17 in conjunction with the ...[Read on] |
Sen. Mikulski Reflects on Barrier-Breaking Senate Career
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As Barbara Mikulski prepares to become the longest serving female senator in US history, she reflects on the barriers she broke throughout her 24-year Senate career:
Mikulski has been a trailblazer...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Pol...[Read on] |
Review: Bridesmaids
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The word being tossed around in relation to Kristen Wiig's star-making new comedy Bridesmaids is womance, and the portmanteau is somewhat apt but not entirely fair. Writers love a good pun or, better yet, a tidy way to label something, especia...[Read on] |
Girl Scouts to meet women with non-traditional careers at NASCAR Weekend
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Professional barrel racer Tana Poppino together with three women race car drivers will join 500 girl scouts at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, MO on October 1st during a unique event being planned as part of a NASCAR race weekend at the track.
Tana, ...[Read on] |
Amelie Mauresmo retires from professional tennis at 30
| Amelie Mauresmo retires from professional tennis at 30
Amelie Mauresmo, who started her tennis career in 1993, announced her retirement from professional tennis in a press conference in France.
“I came here to announce the end of my career. I made thi...[Read on] |
Oscar Party Recap: Hollywood Finds Its License to Chill
| Sandra Bullock and Jesse James at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Photograph by Getty/VF. Perhaps for the first time since 2007, when the financial crisis was still a glimmer in the banking industry’s eye, Hollywood gave itself permission to have a little ...[Read on] |
How Do You Know If You're Being Paid Fairly?
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by Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
My first job was as a hostess at a steakhouse in my hometown — the kind with a giant all-you-can-eat salad-and-baked-potato bar and a bestselling Tuesday night half-priced-prime-r...[Read on] |
Brittany Murphy- RIP
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Brittany in Clueless (she's on the left)
The death of Brittany Murphy at 32 is another one of those moments where you can see the toll that Hollywood takes on people.
I mean what 32 year old person has a heart attack?
People are saying drugs, but wha...[Read on] |
Affordable Care Act Helps Women Except That...
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This is according to a story linked on DailyKos.com , via a Web MD story on a new Commonwealth Fund Study. (PDF)
About 7.3 million women aged 19 to 64 were turned down when they tried to buy an insurance plan, charged a higher rate than men, or had a ...[Read on] |
Soccer mom Joy Fawcett takes center stage
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Soccer hall of famer Joy Fawcett
The ultimate soccer mom reached the pinnacle of her sport Sunday.
“In my life, I’ve had two dreams: To play soccer at the highest level and to be a mother,” former United States Women’s National Team standout d...[Read on] |
Fair pay and athletics: The gender disparities continue to loom
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This post is part of an initiative by the National Women’s Law Center in honor of Equal Pay Day — “voices are rising up across the web in support of fair pay for women.” All day, they’ll be promoting blog posts about fair pay and tweets with the...[Read on] |
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