By Deborah Harkins

Pleasure has been Ann’s business since 1980, when she came up with the idea of a floating swimming pool. “The joy on the faces on the kids, both in Brooklyn and particularly in the Bronx . . . " she says “. . . except for my four children, and marrying my husband, 'The Floating Pool Lady' is the best thing that could have happened to me.”

The gendered Civil Rights March on Washington, the rising number of "mentally disturbed, lonely, workaholic heroines" on television, the case for gender-flipping roles in Hollywood, the FORBES 100 Best Websites for Women, and a happy, happy birthday to Coco Chanel.

Madonna Still a Kid in a Candy Store: The world’s most-successful female musician — who turns 50 in August — releases a new album today, titled “Hard Candy,” to mostly positive reviews. So we felt it was our duty to share the first single with you. Have “4 Minutes” to spare? Designing for the Senior Surge: “Makers of appliances and…

U.S. Study Links Breast Cancer to Alcohol: We first covered the potential link between alcohol consumption and breast cancer in October. Now, another study has linked alcohol to an increased risk for the most common type of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, reports Reuters. “Regardless of the type of alcohol, the risk was evident,” said Jasmine Lew, a researcher at…