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Investing In Women–And Not Just In The Abstract

Companies with more women on boards and in leadership positions outperform, financially and otherwise, companies with fewer women--and yet, this information doesn't typically factor into investment decisions. Now, some firms are giving investors the option to invest in companies that promote gender equality.

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Why Women Are Better Freelancers

One longtime female freelancer says women are better suited for the Gig Economy. Here are three reasons why. "Am I to infer from your article that only women are contractors

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New Incubator Focuses on Female Founders

Three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator to focus on start-ups with a female founder and a mobile product or service. Tech incubators, such as Y Combinator and TechStars, graduate astonishingly low rates of woman-run companies. Instead of complaining about the gender gap, three New York City businesswomen are launching their own incubator

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Why Women Want to be Entrepreneurs

Like Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, women are driven to do business better and more flexibly, and make work better for everyone. Every businesswoman who acquires any public profile has her family life raked over: How does she do it?

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Nice Girls Brag: Here’s How

Women are told that its not ladylike to brag. But done right, it can be one of the most effective ways to grow your business and your influence

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How to Get Rich on Government Work

For many women business owners, the shortest route to a a million in revenues runs through Washington. All business owners, especially women owners, know that getting to a million in revenues is a tough hurdle

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Video: Breast cancer surgeries: Are they always necessary?

A new study finds that nearly one-in-four women with breast cancer have more than one surgery. Dr. Rache Simmons, chief of breast surgery at NY-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, talks to Gayle King and Erica Hill about how the number of surgeries could be reduced.

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Video: Lumpectomy surgeries lead to repeats

The journal of the American Medical Association found that nearly a quarter of the women who got a lumpectomy went back for more surgery. But as Elaine Quijano reports, a study found those extra procedures may be unnecessary.

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If It Looks Like a Compliment, and Sounds Like a Compliment…Is It Really a Compliment?

Two weeks ago I was at Science Online 2012, the annual conference for science bloggers and writers in Raleigh, NC. While there, I attended the session on Blogging Science While Female (a more detailed summary of the session can be found here ). At the session, many of the women in the room expressed discouragement at how many comments they have received that, while seemingly complimentary, somehow still felt wrong

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15 Women to Watch in Tech

Collectively, they're tackling everything from healthcare and online video to Web security and e-commerce. And that's only the beginning

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The Face of Success, Part 3: Women and Venture Capital

Silicon Valley appears to be the world's greatest meritocracy. Unless you're a female entrepreneur trying to raise venture funding. In my last two articles, I discussed why, based on my research on immigrant entrepreneurs, I believed that Silicon Valley was the world’s greatest meritocracy.

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