Women of Note
More Women On UK Company Boards; Could It have Made a Difference in the Banking Crisis?
"We believe the lack of diversity on the boards of many, if not most, of our major financial institutions, may have heightened the problems of 'group-think' and made effective challenge and scrutiny of executive decisions less effective." more »
Hollywood's Gender Equality, Written in Invisible Ink; Where Are the Women in Film and TV?
"Across 400 top-grossing G, PG, PG-13 and R rated films released between 1990 and 2006, only 27 percent of over 15,000 speaking characters were female." more »
Too Much Information? The Rhetoric of Women Wronged: When Political Spouses Tell Their Stories
Besides the sobering lessons in Edwards's book is that sad reality that most of the time the American press and public prefers a dumbed-down version of the political spouse. The media wants not even sound bites from our political spouses, but 'picture bites' usually of Barbie-doll like perfection, demure, uncomplicated and ultimately quiet. more »
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Sacks by Rebecca Skloot
"They became the first immortal human cell line ever grown in culture and one of the most important tools in medicine: Research on HeLa was vital to the development of the polio vaccine, as well as drugs for treating herpes, leukemia, influenza, hemophilia, and Parkinson's disease; it helped uncover the secrets of cancer and the effects of the atom bomb, and led to important advances like cloning, in vitro fertilization, and gene mapping." more »