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• How to get South Asian women mobile access, and how not

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 131
  We are always happy when people use our research . Happier when we are mentioned as the source too. We thank the writer and/or the source for attributing the results to us. While there is no separate data on the number of female subscribers in the country, according to a recent Lirneasia Teleuse Survey (a ...
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• Video: mixed school learning

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  What is it like learning in a school where only one third of the pupils are girls?
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• Girls in a girls school

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  What learning in a single-sex environment means for girls in one London school
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• Reaching out to young black men | Piers Linney

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  Role models within the Reach programme are helping disaffected black teenagers gain confidence in their futures A year ago today, the government launched its role-model initiative to raise the aspirations and achievements of young black British men. The Reach report , which preceded it and recommended the scheme, ...
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• Ms. CEO: A Rare Commodity

  
  College Candy — Authority: 659
  Working on Fifth Avenue at New York City is nothing short of glamorous. Every day, I walk to work on one of NYC’s most famous streets, cutting through Central park, walking by the Plaza, passing Saks and finally entering the headquarters of one of the largest beauty companies in the world to work on photoshoots ...
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• Are co-ed or single-sex lessons best?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Co-ed schools are increasingly keen to teach their boys and girls separately, according to one Cambridge academic. But is this really a good idea? Yes Dr Chris Nicholls is headteacher of Moulsham high school, a comprehensive in Chelmsford, Essex, with 1,600 pupils aged between 11-18. My school started ...
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• Don’t Let The Gays!

  
  Irresponsibility — Authority: 107
  Posted by Irresponsibility Generic ex-American Idoler Adam Lambert is — oooh! Shock! Horror! — g-a-y. And when he performed at the American Music Awards he (Shock! Horror!) kissed a man as part of his routine. Homophobia is easily America’s favourite phobia, which is depressing but predictable. It far ...
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• Global Gender Report Reveals Bryn Mawr’s Biases

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 137
  by Wajeeha Mohsin  Out of 134 countries, Iceland claimed the top spot on the Global Gender Report 2009, while Yemen came out at the bottom. In an online survey asking Bryn Mawr students where they expected countries to rank regarding gender inequity, about a third of the nearly 100 Mawrtyrs who responded said that ...
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• The Evolving Manager Stereotype: Do More Women Managers Make For Less Stereotypes?

  
  The Downtown Women's Club womensDISH blog — Authority: 116
  A study in an upcoming issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly (PWQ) looks at how men and women leaders are evaluated differently based on the the gender-typing of the industry in which they work. The results show that expectations are...
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• Women Earn Less Than Men, but Why?

  
  Ask Dr. Salary — Authority: 104
  In a recent project with Catherine Rampell at the New York Times Economix Blog, we examine the pay differential between men and women across a set of 90 jobs. Numerous studies have looked at the gender wage gap, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , the New York Times , and the Census . However, the ...
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• ECommerce And Canada

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 155
  Canadian eCommerce growth was recently flat but still has an attractive upside… Recent studies found that Canadian retail e-commerce growth was flat year over year (2003-2004). After further examination however, approximately 60% of the 100 largest non-travel sites succeeded in growing their sales over 20%. Also ...
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• The Gender Gap Is Shrinking - Except at the Top

  
  SavvySugar — Authority: 598
  It turns out, the difference between men and womens salaries is smaller than we thought - as long as those salaries aren’t very big to begin with. A new study from PayScale.com compared salaries across 90 different jobs, adjusting for any outside factors that might affect the salary (the location of the job, the ...
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• Closing The Global Gender Gap Requires Effort Every Level [Mind The Gap]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 811
  Whats the secret that allows Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden to take the top four spots in gender equality rankings, while the UK stalls at rank 15 and the US trails at 31? Today, Laura Liswood, co-founder of the Council of Women World Leaders, writes about why it is important to look at the shifting rankings ...
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• Letters: Slapping down girls career aspirations

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  When Jill Berry claims that "teenage girls need to be taught a heavy dose of realism – that it may not be possible to be a perfect mother and a career woman" ( Girls need to be realistic about careers , 14 November), she both metes out a discouraging slap on the wrist to girls with legitimate career aspirations and ...
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• Feminists can be à la mode, says head

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Women often guilty of judging other women Girls interested in fashion and their appearance are not betraying feminist ideals, a leading headteacher said today. Jill Berry, president of the Girls Schools Association (GSA), said a desire to look attractive and intelligence are not "mutually exclusive". Speaking ahead ...
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• A Long Way from Equal

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 157
  I was complaining to my father after learning a male coworker made more money than me despite the fact I was on the management team and my coworker was not. My father responded, “I didn’t think women had to deal with that anymore. I thought women were treated as equals these days.”  I’ll spare you the 30 ...
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• Weekly Wrap Up: Friday The 13th Has Us All In a Tizzy

  
  College Candy — Authority: 659
  It’s Friday the 13 th , and even though I’m not particularly superstitious—I’ve stepped on many a crack in my day, and my mother’s back is still working just fine—I do feel a little uneasy. That’s mostly because, as my main man Tim Gunn might say, I’m concerned about a lot of things right now. Senior ...
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• Girls should be realistic about career

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Nothing wrong with women not working when they have children Teenage girls need to be taught a heavy dose of realism – that it may not be possible to be a perfect mother and career woman, the president of the Girls Schools Association (GSA) will say next week. Jill Berry, headteacher of Dame Alice Harpur school in ...
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• Should Colleges Favor Guys?

  
  College Candy — Authority: 659
  Is gender equality in college that important? According to NPR, colleges are favoring male applicants ahead of female candidates, in order to keep schools from becoming overwhelmingly female. Other than being a seemingly blatant violation of Title IX, I can’t quite figure out if this is good or bad. So I took a ...
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• From the Real to the Ideal: A Woman’s Nation and the Gender Gap for Women in Health Care

  
  AAUW Dialog — Authority: 467
  Maria Shriver’s ambitious report, The Shriver Report — A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything, has grabbed our attention and focused us on a national priority of the highest importance. Women’s equality is, I believe, an even greater priority than health care reform, because closing the gender gap is necessary ...
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