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117 Foot Locker stores will hang up their laces
| Foot Locker
Inc. has recently announced that they will close 117 stores in the coming
weeks. The athletic retailer and sneaker giant made the move in order to strengthen brand positioning, re-organize and focus more on the female consumer.
The Company
wi...[Read on] |
Car Allowance Rebate System - On and Off, and On Again!
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When the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) program was finally officially enacted last week, car shoppers swarmed automotive dealerships to take advantage of the $3500 or $4500 rebates offered when trading in their less-efficient clunkers for more fuel-...[Read on] |
Addressing Post-Bankruptcy Car Warranty Worries
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Many drivers of Chrysler and General Motors vehicles may be wondering about their recourse if they require warranty work, or if their car exhibits defects that may qualify it as a "lemon."
There's plenty of good news here, but also some bad.
For insta...[Read on] |
Margaret Hamburg to Head FDA
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Former NYC health commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg will reportedly take over the FDAObama Administration | Today 2:40 pm
The Obama administration won’t comment, but news reports claim that Margaret A. Hamburg has been picked to head the Food and D...[Read on] |
Apple to Introduce Concert-Ticket App?
| From Patently Apple.
The Internet is filled with rumors today that Apple has patented something called a “Concert Ticket +,” which is like an iPad plus an iPhone ticketing app minus an iPad. Reports the Wrap: “The paperless tickets would be displaye...[Read on] |
Bryan Burrough Reports that Disney Will Pay the Weinsteins a Settlement of Over $75 Million
| Photograph by Victor Demarchelier. Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough reports that, “after several months of negotiations, Disney quietly agreed to a settlement in which it will pay the Weinstein Company $32.5 million in cash, hand over it...[Read on] |
Buy Me Love: Beatles Songs Reportedly Coming to iTunes
| Hot on the heels of Facebook’s quasi-resurrection of Google Wave—“It’s not e-mail”—comes an announcement from Apple. Though the big reveal is not scheduled until 10 a.m., last night, word broke that Steve Jobs might soon be welcoming the Beatl...[Read on] |
Backers Say Warren Has Time to Make Her Mark
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Legal scholars predict that the appointment of Elizabeth Warren to lead the new Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection will be a boon for everyday Americans, especially low-income women who have struggled with crushing credit card, student...[Read on] |
Obama to Tap Kathleen Sebelius for HHS Post; Abortion Issue Rears Head
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Anti-abortion groups are up in arms over reports that President Obama will name the Kansas governor to head Health and Human ServicesPost | Today 9:35 am
President Barack Obama will announce Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his pick for Health and Human...[Read on] |
Violence against women on television, especially teens, skyrockets
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A new report from the Parents Television Council, Women in Peril, found a 120% increase in depictions of violence against women on television since 2004. (In the same time period, violence that occurred irrespective of gender only increased by 2%.)
Cumu...[Read on] |
Toyota and Honda under recall; Ford, GM, Chrysler answer with trade-in incentives
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Two popular Japanese automotive brands have been taking a pounding lately.
In September 2009, Toyota announced that it would recall 3.8 million vehicles to adjust floormats that could cause accelerators to get stuck and lead to a crash. And just a few ...[Read on] |
FTC Provides “Tips on Making Most of Your Auto Warranty”
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Brought to you by Car Care Council
The FTC offers these tips to help consumers make smart decisions and get the most out of their auto warranties:
Read the warranty that came with the car, or check the “owners” section of the manufacturer’s We...[Read on] |
Depressing: Pay Gap Even Affects Lady Doctors
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According to an article in the Wall Street Journal's The Juggle blog this morning, the pay gap affects all kinds of ladies, including those who are highly skilled in saving lives. The Juggle reports that a new study published in the February issue of Heal...[Read on] |
Gaga, Japan's Lady in Shining Armor?
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Months after the most powerful known earthquake to hit Japan, the country continues to suffer. Tourism in Japan is taking a hard hit. Asahi TV reports about a 50.3% decrease in the number of foreign tourists visiting Japan in March, most likely affe...[Read on] |
Women Boxers from Gleason’s create art for show
| I just read Meredith Deliso’s article on YourNabe.com about 15 women from Gleason’s gym in New York who worked together to create mosaics which will be sold at an art show to benefit a Brooklyn-based community group, Girls for Gender Equity.
What’s...[Read on] |
Chinese women now eating worms to get thin, but are they hungry an hour later?
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In areas of China where the pressure to find employment is rising, female students are also struggling with the need to stay trim. Daily Mail reports that, in order to lose weight to impress employers in job interviews, Chinese students have been resortin...[Read on] |
Health Reform Will End Gender Rating, Kind of, Sort of, Maybe…
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by Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
As we’ve discussed here many times before, gender rating is the harmful and discriminatory insurance practice of charging individuals and employers different premiums based on gender. ...[Read on] |
Haitian Feminist Leader Myriam Merlet (1953-2010)
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Myriam Merlet was killed in the Haiti earthquake last week. Our heartfelt prayers go out to her family, friends and all of the lives she touched as a pioneer for women's rights in Haiti.Democracy NOW! reporter, Amy Goodman reports on her de...[Read on] |
Out of bankruptcy in a flash, the new General Motors shares its plan for future success
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Emerging from bankruptcy just 40 days after filing, the new General Motors Company began operations on Friday touting a new corporate structure, a stronger balance sheet, and a renewed commitment to make the customer the center of everything the new GM d...[Read on] |
We Need More Chelsea Optimism
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The divorce rate is down – and so is consumer confidenceLiz Peek | Today 10:00 am
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Chelsea Clinton is getting married; you may have heard. She is, of course, not alone. We are in high wedding season; more than two million one-somes will become ...[Read on] |
Modern Lady Reports on Women-Workers V. Wal-Mart Class Action Suit
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A class-action suit has been filed against the Wal-Mart corporation on behalf of 1.5 million former and current Wal-Mart women workers. The plaintiffs claim that Wal-Mart promotes a work culture of patriarchy where women are constantly devalued in the wor...[Read on] |
Sex Segregation Sells: Iran Opens Women-Only Bank
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Sex segregation is all the rage these days, as a popular bank in Iran has opened it’s first women-only branch with an all-female staff and security guards. The state-owned bank, Melli, opened this branch for the purposes of safeguarding wo...[Read on] |
Why Sarah Palin’s Alaska Lost Nearly Half Its Viewers
| Just as Sarah Palin fled her governorship, TLC viewers are also fleeing Alaska. Ratings are down 40 percent for Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the former vice-presidential candidate’s reality show. While 5 million people watched the series’ November 14 premi...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin Invokes World’s Least Creative Excuse to Explain Tour Suspension
| Writing on Facebook, Governor Sarah Palin (R-the Internet), argued that “reports of tour demise are greatly exaggerated,” referring to a Real Clear Politics scoop that Palin’s One Nation cross-country publicity stunt has been summarily truncated. We...[Read on] |
Al Gore’s Daughter Karenna to Separate, Too
| Karenna Gore and her husband, Drew Schiff, have separated after 12 years of marriage, People reports. They have three kids. Drew, a doctor (Dr. Drew!), is an employee of the biotech firm Aisling Capital, while Karenna is currently working on “a document...[Read on] |
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