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North America | United States | Business

Female CEOs are 45% more likely to get fired than males. Here are 6 high-achieving women who bounced back after a major firing

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Are high-ranking women more likely than high-ranking men to get the axe? A troubling new study shows that the answer is yes for female CEOs — 45% more likely, in fact. The researchers don't have a lightning bolt of a reason why this is the case, but they do note that it happens even when the company is performing well. But here's the thing to realize, whether you're fired from the C-suite or on your way there: There's hope! Some of the most well-known and well-regarded women in almost every industry have lost one big job — or big client — at one point in their career. The good news f
International | History

Global Catholic Network founder Mother Angelica has died

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Mother Mary Angelica, a folksy Roman Catholic nun who used a monastery garage to begin a television ministry that grew into a global religious media empire, has died. She was 92. Known to millions of viewers simply as "Mother Angelica," the founder of the Eternal Word Television Network died Easter Sunday at the rural monastery where she lived about 45 miles north of Birmingham, according to EWTN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael P. Warsaw. With only $200, the nun began broadcasting a religious talk show from a TV studio put together in the monastery garage in suburban Birming
International | Media

FOR THE WOMEN WAR CORRESPONDENTS AT CBS NEWS, THE OFFICE IS A BATTLEFIELD

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On her most recent trip to Syria, CBS correspondent Elizabeth Palmer and her team were going to "make a break" for Aleppo. To get there, they would have to travel on a road that ISIS controls and has already shelled. "There is always a little knot in my stomach just because of that," she says when I spoke to her via phone recently. The veteran reporter has visited the war-torn country over a dozen times, giving her a sense of the land that violence has decimated. Aleppo "is a city that was once one of the great tourist destinations of the Middle East, and it is on its knees. This is
International | Media

Femina Celebrates One Year Anniversary – 184 Countries – International Women’s Day

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Femina.com is celebrating our one year anniversary today. Launched March 8th, 2015 for International Women's Day, Femina has reached and is being read in over 184 countries. In the graphic, the darker the shade of blue, the more visitors we have had from that country. Femina.com highlights and showcases what women are doing around the world, great and small, and demonstrates that there are profoundly powerful role models everywhere you look. To celebrate we are linking to some of our favorite stories that we have covered throughout the year. THE MEN OF THE DONA COMMUNITY GAVE THE WO
North America | United States | Media

Stephanie Ready ‘thrilled’ to become first full-time female NBA game analyst

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Before the summer when the US Women’s National Team captured the country’s attention, Becky Hammon won a NBA Summer League title, Nancy Lieberman became an assistant coach for the Kings and Jen Welter secured a coaching internship with the Cardinals, executives at Fox Sports Southeast came to Stephanie Ready with an idea to make her the FOX Sports Southeast telecast team play-by-play analyst for the upcoming season. Which for her, was a huge promotion to her dream job. It also makes her the first woman to hold the position of full-time NBA game analyst for a team’s local broadcast.
Middle East | Syria | Career

A New Short Documentary Shows Syrian Women Refugees’ Brave Resilience

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The number of Syrian refugees is currently approaching 4 million, with UN data showing women and children make up over three-quarters of that total. Hundreds of thousands from this diaspora are living in sprawling refugee camps along Turkey's southern border, and in a new short documentary by filmmaker Aliya Naumoff, a few women are sharing a look into life in those compounds. Aided by the U.S.-Turkey relations advocacy group the Turkish Heritage Organization, Naumoff traveled to the Harran and Akcakale camps near the border with Syria, where she interviewed a number of women and girls abou
Europe | U.K. | Leadership

Nicola Sturgeon plans to counter the detrimental effect of the ‘vicious’ media scrutiny of her appearance

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Women “really led the fore” in this year’s General Election, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said. The Green Party’s Natalie Bennett, Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood and Sturgeon not only performed admirably, but also were, bar David Cameron, the only leaders not to resign their positions following the results. With 56 new MPs in Westminster, Sturgeon is now one of the most influential women in British politics. But they also took far more flack than they should for their personal appearances in the tabloid press. The Scottish First Minister in particular faced deplorabl
North America | United States | History

What Girls are Good For: Happy birthday Nellie Bly!

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In 1880, the Pittsburgh Dispatch published an article titled "What Girls Are Good For.” In dismissive terms, the column’s author wrote that women shouldn't be allowed to work because their place was at home. Days later, a pseudonymous rebuttal appeared in the paper. The response, by a 16-year-old girl whose real name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran, argued how important it was for women to be independent and self-reliant. Within a decade, the author of that response would become known worldwide as Nellie Bly: a hard-hitting young journalist who went undercover at a lunatic asylum and travele
North America | United States | Media

What we can learn from how blind women see beauty

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If you ask women about their physical body insecurities, they’ll likely respond with aspects of their bodies they can see (even if the rest of the world can’t). But how would you define beauty or insecurities if you couldn’t see at all? That’s exactly what Dove aimed to answer in their powerful new video. The video, which is captioned “How do you know you’re beautiful if you can’t see your reflection in the mirror?” features three Swedish women — Anna Bergholz, Naomi Alback, and Ida Ostlund — who were asked for their perspectives on beauty. All of these women are bli
Middle East | Israel | Culture

Israel’s first Arab news broadcaster talks identity, war and where to go from here

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Lucy Aharish was a 5-year-old girl who had just finished clothes shopping with her parents in Gaza when the family vehicle was attacked by a terrorist. That terror attack became a seminal episode in the life of Aharish, who would grow up to become Israel’s first Arab presenter on prime-time television. Last month, she was awarded one of Israel’s highest honors: to light a torch at the national Independence Day ceremony on Mount Herzl, whose theme this year is “groundbreaking Israelis.” I say that I’m an Israeli. I’m not ashamed of my Israeliness. Then I’m a woman, and then
International | Media

U.S. Women’s Media Group Honors Photographer Heidi Levine

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Photographer Heidi Levine, who has spent 30 years covering war zones and revolutions in the Middle East, Libya and Syria, was named Tuesday as the inaugural winner of an award for courage named for Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus. The International Women's Media Foundation in Washington announced that Levine, an American based in Israel, will be awarded the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. Niedringhaus was killed last year on assignment in Afghanistan when an Afghan police commander walked up to the car she was in and opened fire. The award jury, which in
Europe | U.K. | Business

First Woman: Guardian appoints Katharine Viner as editor-in-chief

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Katharine Viner has been appointed the editor-in-chief of the Guardian, the first woman to run the newspaper in its 194-year history. Viner, currently deputy editor of the Guardian and editor-in-chief of Guardian US, will take up the role in the summer from incumbent Alan Rusbridger, who is to stand down after 20 years. The Scott Trust, the ultimate owner of the Guardian, which safeguards the title’s editorial future and independence, made the announcement on Friday after members of the board conducted final interviews with two shortlisted candidates. Viner will become only the 12th edito

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