This week, The Economist looks at the progress that women the world over have made in the workplace. Answer: Some advancement, but still a ways to go. And then it reports the following as fact:
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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The results of a humongous survey of 40,000 school teachers, developed and funded jointly by USA Today, Scholastic, and the Bill & Melinda Gates...
According to Jan Garrard, a senior lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, the best way to determine how favorable a given city is...
So, the U.S. military has recently introduced a new preemptive tactic in the war on terror: Giving cows to the widows of Iraqis we've killed....
A Foreign Policy index imparts an unfortunate piece of information about worldwide gender equality. Their graphic shows the percentage of college...
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From March 12-14, The Daily Beast will be hosting the Women in the World summit, bringing out some big names in politics—Valerie Jarrett,...
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What could we gain by abandoning the test's timed essay? Better writers. "Although most people's goal is to be happy at all times, being...
Talent Recruiters As a reminder to citizens, cities would staff a team of talent developers who invite "people at risk" to adopt a learning...
While employed Americans are less satisfied with their jobs than ever before, according to a new CBS News poll-"Where America Stands"- they are...
Morning Roundup: From The Los Angeles Times: Assembly OKs Bills to Change California Schools Parents would be given more power to transfer...
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