Forbes: Can 'Feminine' Women Make it To The Top?

Caroline Turner at Forbes explores the three forms of being feminine—looking feminine; acting girlish or seductive; and working and leading in feminine ways—and how each may or may not contribute to success in the business world.  She also links to a Stanford study with interesting insights...
 

"English Majors Are Exactly Who I'm Looking For"

Michael Moore's article in the WSJ will bring a smile to humanities majors.

A few months back I invited a friend to speak in front of my professional writing class. Santosh Jayaram is the quintessential Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneur: tech-savvy, empirical, ferociously competitive, and a veteran of Google, Twitter and a new start-up, Dabble. Afraid that he would simply run over my writing students, telling them to switch majors before it was too late, I asked him not to crush the kids' hopes any more than they already were.

Santosh said, "Are you kidding? English majors are exactly the people I'm looking for."

Planned Parenthood Does Not Offer Mammograms

"Operating mammogram machines without a license is a violation of federal law," writes Senior Counsel Casey Mattox of the Alliance Defending Freedom, "and in response to an Alliance Defending Freedom request, the Department of Health and Human Services verified that Planned Parenthood has no such licenses."

DHHS verification here.

Doctors' Full Page Ad Against Obamacare

A full-page advertisement, authored by gastroenterologist Farid Naffah and signed by more than 40 other Ohio physicians, warns newspaper readers in the state that Obamacare "is an administrative and fiscal disaster, bringing higher health care costs, a severe physician shortage and the rationing of medical services," reports the Daily Caller.

In the letter, the doctor argues that, “If all you know about Obamacare is that it will provide insurance to 32 million Americans who don’t have it; that patients with pre-existing conditions may not be excluded from coverage; that certain screening procedures are offered without co-payments, and that children may remain on their parents’ plan until the age of twenty-six, you would have no reason to fear or oppose it.”

Economic Recoveries: Reagan vs. Obama

"Obama's policies have produced a smaller economic recovery than any since World War II," argue Investor's Business Daily editors. "If you want to see what a really huge recovery looks like, take a look at the one President Reagan oversaw."  IBD adds this graphic (enlarged version here):

Malkin: Planned Parenthood's Mammogram Sham

"Planned Parenthood's 'women's health' mantle is a sham," writes Michelle Malkin. "An undercover investigation of 30 Planned Parenthood clinics in 27 different states, conducted by pro-life group Live Action, confirmed that the abortion provider does not perform breast cancer screenings. We don't provide those services whatsoever, a staffer at Planned Parenthood of Arizona admitted. Planned Parenthood's Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kan., acknowledged: "We actually don't have a, um, mammogram machine, at our clinics." But don't just take Live Action's word for it..."

Read her full article.

Law Prof Warns of New Assaults to Free Speech

"Free speech is dying in the Western World," writes GWU law professor Jonathan Turley, who catalogues efforts to limit free speech in Europe and the U.S.

Such efforts focus not on the right to speak but on the possible reaction to speech — a fundamental change in the treatment of free speech in the West. The much-misconstrued statement of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes that free speech does not give you the right to shout fire in a crowded theater is now being used to curtail speech that might provoke a violence-prone minority. Our entire society is being treated as a crowded theater, and talking about whole subjects is now akin to shouting “fire!”

Turley identifies 4 rationales used by speech-restricting advocates: