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Minuscule Increase for Women in Canada’s Financial Post 500 Senior Officer or Top Earner Ranks in 2012

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Catalyst has released its 2012 Financial Post 500 Women Senior Officers and Top Earners census report, which tracks women’s advancement into senior leadership positions among Canada’s Financial Post 500 companies. since the last Catalyst Census conducted in 2012. since the 2010 Catalyst Census. Today, women hold 18.1%

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

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As we read year-end and best-of 2010 articles and watch the tribute shows, take a moment to try to add up the cumulative wealth of those being remembered. In the years leading up to 2010, estate planners believed that an estate tax-free 2010 would never happen, but Congress never got its act together long enough to change the law.

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The Status of Women in Media Is Not Good

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media in 2012 isn’t good. Media 2012.” They revealed statistical gems like the following: Just 26% of sources in 2010 were women. Just 24% of the people interviewed, heard, seen, or read about in mainstream broadcast and print news in 2010 were female. The status of women in U.S. Dearfield, M.A.,

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Gender Wage Gap by the Numbers

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According to the August 2012 Women’s Earnings and Income report from Catalyst, the following statistics are accurate: The median annual earnings for full-time, year-round women workers in 2010 was $36,931 compared to men’s $47,715. of men’s earnings in 2010. of the time, up from 17.8% as much as men. as much as men.

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Patents Granted to Women Jump 35% in One Year

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NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Over the course of twenty years (1990 to 2010), women inventors doubled their share of patents granted by the U.S. Susan Decker of Businessweek explains: “Patents granted to women jumped 35 percent in 2010, faster than the overall 27 percent increase. inventor were issued to women.

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EU Proposes 40 Percent Quota for Women on Supervisory Boards

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percentage point increase between October 2010 and January 2012, the European Commission said in a report in March. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7 percent of board seats in the EU belong to women after a 1.9

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EU Proposes 40 Percent Quota for Women on Supervisory Boards

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percentage point increase between October 2010 and January 2012, the European Commission said in a report in March. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7 percent of board seats in the EU belong to women after a 1.9

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