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“[A]t every level, more women were rated by their peers, their bosses, their direct reports, and their other associates as better overall leaders than their male counterparts — and the higher the level, the wider that gap grows.” Women were rated higher in 12 of the 16 competencies derived from 30 years of research and Zenger/Folkman’s large survey database.”

Harvard Business Review blog post Are Women Better Leaders than Men? - New Study Shows Women Do It Better Than Men

“According to a recent survey, “women who had sex at least four times a week were scored as looking up to ten years younger than their actual age,” said Greenblatt. “While pleasure and intimacy with your partner should be a primary motivation to have sex, the health and wellness benefits are a big bonus.”

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While 63 percent of the women surveyed reported that emotional connection is the most important aspect of their sex life, only 42 percent said that they were “extremely” or even “very” satisfied with how this actually plays out in the bedroom.”

Women Aren’t Having Enough Sex, Says Science - DivineCaroline
A few weeks back, at an event to celebrate the role of women in finance, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tried to get things started with a joke. He said he had recently come across a headline that asked, “What If Women Ran Wall Street?” “Now that’s an excellent question, but it’s kind of a low bar,” Geithner continued, deadpan amid rising laughter. “How, you might ask, could women not have done better?” It is rarely noted that the financial wreckage littering our world is the creation, almost exclusively, of men, not women. And no wonder: to this day, each of the large banks, from Citigroup to Goldman Sachs, employs fewer than a handful of women in senior positions, and only 3% of Fortune 500 companies have a woman as CEO. Embarrassing tales of a testosterone-filled trading culture tumbled out of the what-went-wrong probes as the Great Recession took hold. (See the seven key elements to financial reform.) In itself, Geithner’s joke was not extraordinary for Washington, where self-deprecating fare is the norm. But what happened next drove home a deeper point: the lectern in the marbled hall at the U.S. Treasury known as the Cash Room was cleared away so that a panel of women could take their seats. Among them was Sheila Bair, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and one of the first federal regulators to publicly sound the alarm about the collapse three years ago. She sat next to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Mary Schapiro, the first woman to hold that post and the deciding vote to initiate the agency’s recent lawsuit against Goldman Sachs. Across the stage sat Elizabeth Warren, chair of the panel bird-dogging the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bank bailout and the chief advocate for new consumer-finance regulations that banks and their allies have spent millions to oppose. Suddenly, something else became clear: these women may not run Wall Street, but in this new era, they are telling Wall Street how to clean up its act. Michael Scherer of Time: men run Wall Street but the new sheriffs of the Street are women…. via realitychex continue reading… time  

A few weeks back, at an event to celebrate the role of women in finance, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tried to get things started with a joke. He said he had recently come across a headline that asked, “What If Women Ran Wall Street?”

“Now that’s an excellent question, but it’s kind of a low bar,” Geithner continued, deadpan amid rising laughter. “How, you might ask, could women not have done better?”

It is rarely noted that the financial wreckage littering our world is the creation, almost exclusively, of men, not women. And no wonder: to this day, each of the large banks, from Citigroup to Goldman Sachs, employs fewer than a handful of women in senior positions, and only 3% of Fortune 500 companies have a woman as CEO. Embarrassing tales of a testosterone-filled trading culture tumbled out of the what-went-wrong probes as the Great Recession took hold. (See the seven key elements to financial reform.)

In itself, Geithner’s joke was not extraordinary for Washington, where self-deprecating fare is the norm. But what happened next drove home a deeper point: the lectern in the marbled hall at the U.S. Treasury known as the Cash Room was cleared away so that a panel of women could take their seats. Among them was Sheila Bair, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and one of the first federal regulators to publicly sound the alarm about the collapse three years ago. She sat next to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Mary Schapiro, the first woman to hold that post and the deciding vote to initiate the agency’s recent lawsuit against Goldman Sachs. Across the stage sat Elizabeth Warren, chair of the panel bird-dogging the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bank bailout and the chief advocate for new consumer-finance regulations that banks and their allies have spent millions to oppose. Suddenly, something else became clear: these women may not run Wall Street, but in this new era, they are telling Wall Street how to clean up its act.

Michael Scherer of Time: men run Wall Street but the new sheriffs of the Street are women….

via realitychex continue reading… time

 
High-res Sizing up where men look When men gaze at a picture of, say, former baseball player George Brett, they aren’t just checking out his batting stance. They’re also sneaking quick glances at Brett’s crotch, according to eye-tracking researchers. In a Web site design study, researchers at the Nielsen/Norman Group showed 255 men and women pictures of different people, including Brett and ballet dancers. Technology called “heat maps” helped reveal that men fixate on private parts-breasts and genitalia-more than women. But faces also draw a lot of looks too, said Kara Pernice Coyne, director of research for NN Group, which conducts behavioral research to make Web sites easier to use. “Women still do [look at private parts], but it’s definitely more men,” said Coyne. continue reading… chicagotribune hat tip to ppg for this 2007 link

Sizing up where men look

When men gaze at a picture of, say, former baseball player George Brett, they aren’t just checking out his batting stance. They’re also sneaking quick glances at Brett’s crotch, according to eye-tracking researchers.

In a Web site design study, researchers at the Nielsen/Norman Group showed 255 men and women pictures of different people, including Brett and ballet dancers. Technology called “heat maps” helped reveal that men fixate on private parts-breasts and genitalia-more than women.

But faces also draw a lot of looks too, said Kara Pernice Coyne, director of research for NN Group, which conducts behavioral research to make Web sites easier to use. “Women still do [look at private parts], but it’s definitely more men,” said Coyne.

continue reading… chicagotribune

hat tip to ppg for this 2007 link

“We’re all different. Why should a smoker pay more than a non-smoker.” - US Congressman Pete Sessions Think Progress

(…”Pete Sessions actually compared women to smokers and suggested women, like smokers, have to pay more for insurance just by the accident of our ability to get pregnant.” - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) )

Orgasm Inc

In the shocking and hilarious documentary Orgasm Inc., filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra drug for women that wins FDA approval to treat a new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). Liz gains permission to film the company for her own documentary. Initially, she plans to create a movie about science and pleasure but she soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with a cadre of other medical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of billion dollar profits.

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