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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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), [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]