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Donald Trump Speaks At The New Hampshire Federation Of Republican Women Lilac Luncheon

Politics Nov 05

Poll: The gender gap shrunk in half in the last month

By Matt Loffman

Economy Dec 09

Economic historian Claudia Goldin of Harvard wins the 2023 Nobel economics prize
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Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin’s takeaways from her research on women and work

This year’s Nobel laureates are set to receive their medals Sunday in a time-honored ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Among them will be Harvard professor Claudia Goldin, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for her research on women in the…

By Paul Solman, Dorothy Hastings, Juliet Fuisz

Making Sen$e Oct 14

Why the 2019 Nobel Prizes in STEM struggled with diversity

Esther Duflo is the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics in the award’s 50-year history. She's also the only woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize in the sciences this year.

By Gretchen Frazee

Politics Jul 11

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Why it’s so hard to get Republican women in Congress

Of the record 36 women newly elected to Congress in the 2018 midterms, only one was a Republican. The party’s continued struggle to attract female candidates hit a new setback recently when political newcomer Joan Perry lost her North Carolina…

Arts Mar 18

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Shunned by country radio, female artists in Nashville are looking to break through

The proportion of female voices on country radio has been dropping in recent years, amid “long-held beliefs” that male singers drive larger audiences and greater ad revenue. But not everyone in Nashville buys into that theory. Jeffrey Brown reports on…

By Jeffrey Brown, Frank Carlson

May 10

There’s a gender gap in top medical journal bylines

By Lauren Silverman, KERA

While women were better represented as first authors in 2014 than 20 years earlier, their numbers have plateaued in recent years, the scientists found, and have declined in some journals.

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Mar 05

Twitter chat: What’s behind the tech industry’s gender gap?

By Nora Daly

As of 2013, women held 57 percent of jobs in the U.S. workforce, however, they held only 26 percent of computing jobs. What's the reason for the tech industry’s gender gap? Join us for a Twitter chat on the topic…

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Nov 14

Don’t count on corporate gender quotas to break the glass ceiling

By Simone Pathe

Could increasing the percentage of women on corporate boards have a trickle-down effect on the workforce? That's not the case when quotas, and later sanctions, are used to force businesses to invite more women to the boardroom.

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Aug 06

How ‘Lehman Siblings’ might have stemmed the financial crisis

By Sallie Krawcheck

Former Citigroup CFO Sallie Krawcheck calls diversification "the one free appetizer in investing." That applies not only to the stock composition of a portfolio, but to the gender makeup of a company. Bringing more women into the room, she says,…

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Aug 05

Why there aren’t enough businesswomen at the top, and what Sallie Krawcheck’s doing about it

By Sallie Krawcheck

Women earn nearly half of all advanced business degrees, but they're still underrepresented in executive positions. Former banking CEO Sallie Krawcheck explains how fairy tales have told women to keep their heads down and how her network encourages women to…

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