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Janet Yellen: The Woman for the Job

By Women's Voices For Change

Celebrations of Janet Yellen's nomination to be chairman of the Federal reserve Bank are well deserved, not only because of Yellen’s fitness for the job but also because the choice of a seasoned female economist to run the Fed is a great victory for the advancement of women.

Money & Careers

Want to Be a Business Leader? Don’t Let “Mommy Math” Do You In

By Catherine D. Wood

I would like to help women with daughters who are in the financial industry—or any other—understand one of the reasons why we are losing the battle for “liberation,” the battle for which so many women fought in the sixties and seventies. One factor is the “arithmetic discussion” that so many couples seem to have when times are tough.