by Anna Villegas Robert Herrick was all of 57 when he advised the virgins, those comely, nubile girls, to make much of time. Leaning into the sunset of the glorious lamp of heaven myself, I find his lines disturbing my staid middle-age because, while they offer some great advice for kids in the callow throes [...]

The authors of a new study on why so few women are entering the ranks of senior management were interviewed on CNN Monday night. Susan Cabrera, a Ph.D. student in management and organizations, and Melissa Thomas-Hunt, an assistant professor of management and organizations, both at the Johnson School at Cornell University, talked about the subtle [...]

by Elizabeth Hemmerdinger | bio Three cheers for Hollywood! Last night Tinseltown celebrated the grownups, virtually heaping Oscars on (gasp!) people in menopause, enduring legends who’d never won before and who presented themselves with much grace at the podium.  First among equals, there’s Helen Mirren, who won the best actress Oscar for her role in [...]

And the Award Goes To: Congratulations are in order for Frances E. Allen, the first woman to win one of the most prestigious prizes in computing, the $100,000 Turing Award. Allen, 74, was honored for her work at IBM on programs that translate computer languages. The 40-year-old Turing award is named for British mathematician Alan [...]

Frances Daly Fergusson was on the nine-member presidential search committee that selected Drew Gilpin Faust to be the next president of Harvard University. As the former president of Vassar College (1986-2006), she has a first-hand perspective of the challenges women face in public leadership roles. And as the newly elected president of Harvard’s Board of [...]

Diane Payne, author of this week’s Voices in Verse selection, "Foreign Concept," discusses menopause with a perceptive — and provocative — eye for detail. Payne teaches creative writing at the University of Arkansas-Monticello and is the author of the memoir "Burning Tulips." Her work has appeared in numerous magazines. She lives in a dry town, [...]

The American Heart Association has updated its guidelines on women and heart disease prevention, with a focus on a woman’s lifetime risk for heart disease. The guidelines include new directions for aspirin use, hormone replacement therapy and vitamin and mineral supplementation. "Since the last guidelines were developed, more definitive clinical trials became available to suggest [...]

Talk about turning it up a notch. Paula O’Connor, a 41-year-old oncologist, will spend her evening on Feb. 27 gliding down a New York runway with the chance of landing a modeling contract and getting her share of more than $85,000 in prizes. The story of how O’Connor applied and became one of the 10 [...]

Opening More Doors for Women: Washington Post columnist Amy Joyce looks at four companies recently honored by Catalyst for their commitment to initiatives that advance women and business (here’s the award press release [PDF]). The companies are PepsiCo, Goldman Sachs, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Scotiabank. Some of the initiatives were started only recently and are already yielding [...]

by Elizabeth Hemmerdinger So they’re going to wrap Camel cigarettes in pretty paper, highlighted in hot pink and green, to pitch to women. From The New York Times: [R.J.] Reynolds, eager to increase the sales of its fast-growing Camel brand among women, is introducing a variety aimed at female smokers. The new variation, Camel No. [...]