SlideShare, led by Rashmi Sinha, is being acquired by LinkedIn for $119 million.
Women senior executives of venture-backed companies are more likely to succeed than companies where only males are in charge, according to new research from Dow Jones.
Middle Eastern women at the center of a startup ecosystem
The new Middle East
There are remarkable and little-reported-on tech startup communities in the Middle East – from Cairo to Amman to Beirut to Dubai – and no one is rocking this scene more than the women entrepreneurs.
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Study of brain’s visual center finds men and women really do see things differently
Men and women do see things differently.
New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Sex Differences finds that the way that the visual centers of men and women’s brains works is different. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors.
Canada best G20 country to be a woman: Poll
Canada is the best place among the world’s biggest economies to be a woman, a global poll of experts showed on Wednesday. Policies that promote gender equality, safeguards against violence and exploitation and access to healthcare are what put Canada on top.
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Do women in the U.S. have the best quality of live?
Australia gets top honors for overall wellbeing.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has recently released the Better Life Index and according to the index women in the United States have the best quality of life of any developed nation.
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Young women want it all, more than men: Study
Young women are now more likely than young men to say a successful, high-paying career is one of the most important things in life in a major reversal from the 1990’s, according to a new Pew Research Center study.
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States with the biggest gender pay gap
The difference between a man’s paycheck and a woman’s paycheck may have something to do with where people live.
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10 worst paying cities for women
On average, women make 77.4 percent of a man’s salary.
Women’s History Month is March and International Women’s Day was March 8th. International Women’s Day was first observed in the U.S. on Feb. 28, 1909. That day has come to symbolize women’s struggles for equal rights.
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Narrow the Gapp challenges app developers to narrow the pay gap
Unequal pay isn’t just unfair, it’s illegal.
After President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act nearly 50 years ago, on average women are still paid less than their male counterparts for doing comparable jobs in the U.S. — that’s called the pay gap. It means that each time the average woman starts a new job, she’s likely to start from a lower base salary than her male counterparts.
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Women are happier in relationships when empathetic partner feels their pain
Relationship satisfaction was directly related to men’s ability to read their female partner’s positive emotions correctly.
According to a new study published by the American Psychological Association, men like to know when their wife or girlfriend is happy while women really want the man in their life to know when they are upset
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Stem cell breakthrough could give women an unlimited supply of eggs
The breakthrough discovery could revolutionize fertility treatment.
Researchers in the U.S. were able to isolate stem cells in a laboratory where they ‘spontaneously generated’ eggs which they say are capable of being fertilized.
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Women have far less accurate memories than men when it comes to unpleasant events
Researchers monitored people’s brain waves with an EEG while they looked at pictures ranging from war photos to pictures of kittens.
Women remember unpleasant events far less accurately than men do, say researchers at the University of Montreal.
