"finance" Articles & Blogs:
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] |
Not-so-shocking news of the day: Conservatives make sexist attacks against Snowe
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With Olympia Snowe's surprise vote this week in the passing of the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform legislation, conservative pundits are taking any sexist shots they can at a woman with power who, like, uses it. Media Matters has a good ro...[Read on] |
Sen. Olympia Snowe votes for health care reform, this time
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All eyes have been on Republican Senator Olympia Snowe (Maine). Her vote on the health care bill in the Senate Finance Committee has been highly anticipated, speculated, and courted. As the only...
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Hatch Amendments Defeated, But Women's Health Still Hanging in the Balance
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
We, and women across the United States, are holding our breaths this month waiting to see what kind of health care bill comes out of the Senate Finance Co...[Read on] |
What’s the difference between leasing and buying a vehicle?
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Knowing the Answer Helps Consumers Make an Educated Decision
With leasing making a comeback, consumers again are faced with the option of buying or leasing a vehicle. While buying and leasing each have their own advantages, they have important differen...[Read on] |
Recession, health care, and roller derby
| I was just talking to a friend the other day about how roller derby is such a hot topic in sport studies because it's a great venue for examining gender roles, subversion, aggression, alternative sport, sexuality, and a host of other things.And of course ...[Read on] |
Female Producer to Finance Kathryn Bigelow’s Next Film
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Kathryn Bigelow is getting ready to start shooting her next indie flick now that she has secured financing from Annapurna Pictures which is run by Megan Ellison.
The pic written by Mark Boal will shoot in the summer and is still being written. Here&#...[Read on] |
How to get the best financing deals on your vehicle purchase
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by Sharleen Benet If you're buying a new car or a truck or any other vehicle, you would look for the price you're getting on the purchase of the vehicle. You must look for ways you can get the best financing deals on your new vehicle purchase. There ar...[Read on] |
Megan Fox Donates Music Video Earnings To Battered Women Shelter
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I just decided to like Ms. Fox a tiny bit more today. Turns out the money she earned working on Eminem's Love the Way You Lie music video was donated to a shelter for battered women. With the recession and federal funding down across the country for wom...[Read on] |
Show Senator Kyl Maternity Care is Good for All Boy and Girls
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center “First of all, I don’t need maternity care. And so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy...[Read on] |
Health Care Reform Has a Woman's Face
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by Jenifer Rajkumar, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
With the misinformation spread about health care reform throughout the summer and the Senate Finance Committee about to release a bill as early as tomorrow, it’s more important than ever at ...[Read on] |
Car Business Language & Lingo-Epilogue
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“Using All The Terms In One Short Story”
I was going into work one day and my thoughts were focused on selling a car. I had a couple of bad days where it seemed like everything went wrong. The “Up” I had turned out to be a “Bogue” that was a...[Read on] |
The Buy vs. Lease Debate - What do you need to know?
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Differences Between Buying and LeasingThe main difference between buying and leasing an automobile is when you buy an auto, you own it and get to keep the vehicle once the contract is fulfilled. When you lease an automobile, you are borrowing the vehicl...[Read on] |
Women & Hollywood on Panel at the Long Island International Film Expo on Sunday
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I’ll be participating in a panel entitled: WOMEN IN CHARGE: Kicking Open The Doors To The Film Industry on Sunday, July 11th from 12-1pm on Long Island.
Location: Filmmakers Lounge @ BELLMORE MOVIES (222 Pettit Ave. Bellmore, NY 11710).
If you are ar...[Read on] |
Polo Ralph Lauren teams with Venus Williams for Legends Clinic
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In celebration of its sixth year as the Official Apparel Sponsor of the US Open Tennis Championships, Polo Ralph Lauren presents the Legends Clinic with Venus Williams. The event will be a live interactive virtual tennis clinic produced in partnership wit...[Read on] |
2009-2010 Supreme Court Term: Some Rights Preserved, Some Setbacks for Women
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by Dina Lassow, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
The Supreme Court handed down the last decisions of the 2009-2010 Term this week. This has been a remarkable term, with much attention being paid to cases involving campaign finance reform, ...[Read on] |
'Glee’s' Lea Michele tackles “America the Beautiful” at Super Bowl XLV
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Access Hollywood has confirmed that Lea Michele, the 24-year-old Broadway ingenue-turned-breakout star of “Glee,” will be singing “America the Beautiful” prior to the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers showdown in Super Bowl XLV.
Pas...[Read on] |
Why are there so few ladies in late night comedy?
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Last Thursday, the Paley Center for Media and the Writer's Guild of America East hosted a panel on women in late night comedy writing. The five panelists and the moderator, all women (and all white), were or used to be writers for The Daily Show, The Colb...[Read on] |
9 reasons to start boxing after 40
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Street cred
Think about the difference between saying, “Yeah, I play a little basketball,” versus “The stitches don’t bother me. I have another fight next month; you should come.” C’mon, it’s just cool. And when was the last time you had le...[Read on] |
Happy 10th Birthday Mamma Mia
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L-R: Writer Catherine Johnson, Director Phyllida Lloyd, Producer Judy Craymer
celebrated its 10th anniversary in London this week. What I love about this show is that the same women who worked on the show did the film and that they really respect an...[Read on] |
All-Women Public Transportation in India
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Tired of sexual harassment in the form of pinches, stares, taunting, groping, and catcalling, Indian women now have access to all-women commuter trains, dubbed the Ladies Special, in New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta.
India would seem to be a count...[Read on] |
Today's dramatic duo: Chrysler joins Fiat AND declares bankruptcy!
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We've been following the "carpocalyse" for months now, watching to see what would happen with automotive giants General Motors and Chrysler. Today's big news came with twice the jaw-dropping effect, as Chrysler announced that it will merge with Italian au...[Read on] |
5 myths about health care around the world
| Great piece to pass along to anyone caught in the health-care reform hysteria:
From T.R. Reid in the Washington Post:
As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we've overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the...[Read on] |
8 Web Sites That Will Help You Survive the Recession
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Indeed - There are so many job classifieds web sites out there, who has the time to sift through all of them daily? Not only does Indeed let you search through popular job posting sites, it also offers free daily alerts based on your keyword and location...[Read on] |
Dangerous Gigs: The price we pay for the causes closest to our hearts
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Twenty-three-year-old Rachel Corrie fought to the death for the people who mattered most to her. As an American Human Rights Worker living in Palestine, she had seen the atrocities of war firsthand and wanted the world to know about the kind of work that ...[Read on] |
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