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Meet the new women in the House of Representatives The House of Representatives will welcome 27 non-incumbent congresswomen in 2021, bringing the total number of women serving to 118. This breaks the previous record, set in 2018, of 102 women in the House. In historic move, Biden to pick Native American Rep. Deb Haaland as Interior…
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Starbucks Names Mellody Hobson Board Chairwoman Ms. Hobson, 51 years old, is among the most prominent Black investors in the U.S. Chicago-based Ariel Investments, a roughly $13 billion value-investment firm, says it is the country’s oldest minority-run mutual-fund firm. Early Female Investors, More Independent Than Previously Thought? When we think of the investing community of the…
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Nasdaq proposal would require greater diversity on company boards Under the proposal, the majority of companies will be required to have at least two diverse board directors: one woman and one person who identifies as either an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ. If a company cannot meet these requirements, it will not be delisted, but it will…
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Janet Yellen will lead Joe Biden’s Treasury. What does she stand for? No economist is more qualified than Ms Yellen, a former chair of the Federal Reserve and a respected academic, for the job. Perhaps more important, however, for what is a political role as much as an economic one, people from the progressive left…
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Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine Parton’s contribution to Vanderbilt University Medical Center was made in honor of her longtime friend, Dr. Naji Abumrad, who is a professor of surgery. ”[Abumrad] informed me that they were making some exciting advancements towards research of the coronavirus for a cure,” she wrote in an Instagram post in…
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Marlins Hire Kim Ng as Baseball’s First Female General Manager “This challenge is one I don’t take lightly,” said Ng, 51. “When I got into this business, it seemed unlikely a woman would lead a Major League team, but I am dogged in the pursuit of my goals.” As news of Ng’s hire reverberated around…
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Voters in Colorado and Oregon approved two major wins for working women In a win for working families, Colorado voters on Tuesday approved paid medical and family leave in the state, and voters in the Portland, Oregon, area approved universal preschool. Recruitment push fuels record number of women in House GOP Several races involving female…
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Ida B. Wells was driven out of Memphis in 1892. She might soon have her own statue there. “16 years here (in Memphis),” Gray said. “She was a school teacher, a publisher, a journalist, a civil rights advocate, a suffragist. If we had 10 more women like Ida B. Wells we could change the world.”…
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New UN gender study: Women ‘far from having an equal voice to men’ “Twenty-five years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, progress towards equal power and equal rights for women remains elusive”, said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “No country has achieved gender equality”. Placing Women on a Different Sort of Pedestal When…
