Women

World Bank's free app puts women on global view

8 Feb 2012

From a new bride in Singapore to girl soldiers in Mozambique, a free iPhone and iPad app launched by the World Bank Wednesday uses striking photographs to highlight women's issues around the world.

Women's Cambridge vs. Oxford Boat Race to be held at same time on same course as men in 2015

8 Feb 2012

LONDON (AP) -- Women will be given equal billing with men in the annual boat race between English universities Oxford and Cambridge, staging the women's race on the same day and the same course as the men's event starting in 2015.

Five Steps For Women To Reach The Boardroom (Career Advice)

8 Feb 2012

By Nilofer Merchant (Contributing Writer, Women 2.0) Once again, the topic of women on boards is getting play. Most of Facebook's 800 million users are women, but all of its seven directors are men. It's such a big disconnect that it makes one question if their strategy is fundamentally wrong. There's plenty of research already ...