You gotta love the internet.

Up to three million women may have heart disease which has gone undetected because signs and symptoms are different for women than they are for men and are ultimately missed by standard (men’s) health tests. It is the leading cause of death among women in the U.S.
Wanna find out if you’re at risk? Take the Heart-O-Scope!
The American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign has created an online test that specifically caters to women’s hearts. Corny name? Absolutely. But it’s still a great idea.
This online tool allows women to assess their risk of heart disease, letting them give a number of details such as cholesterol and blood pressure levels ...

Up to three million women may have heart disease which has gone undetected because signs and symptoms are different for women than they are for men and are ultimately missed by standard (men’s) health tests. ...

Women bikers rock my world.


While big bikes are a wee scary to me, I was still happy to see that this summer will be a good one for female motorcyclists. The 2006 AMA/FIM International Women & Motorcycling Conference is to be held this June in Athens, Georgia.
The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) are holding the event, and has a shitload of sponsors, including Harley-Davidson and Buell. (We’re not surprised about Harley-Davidson considering they have a section of their website dedicated to female bikers.)
The conference is also being organized by a slew of awesome groups dedicated to improving the world of women motorcyclists, including

Saudi women lose in chamber

The polls did not turn out in favor of women in election for the Chamber of Commerce in Eastern Saudi Arabia, but history was made and a female presence was seen.

The polls for the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry were only the second time in Saudi history that women have run for elected office. Women and men are strictly segregated in the conservative kingdom, and women were not allowed to vote in the country’s first nationwide municipal polls last year.

via Khaleej Times.

The polls did not turn out in favor of women in election for the Chamber of Commerce in Eastern Saudi Arabia, but history was made and a female presence was seen.

The polls for the Eastern Province Chamber ...

U.S. boards still lack women

A new survey by a recruiting firm says that women and people of color are still largely underrepresented in corporate boardrooms.

A study of 2,357 directors of the top 200 Standard & Poor’s 500 companies found that 16 percent of the directors are women and 15 percent are minorities.
…Irene Natividad, co-chairman of the nonprofit CWDI, said the lack of women on corporate boards occurs because they rarely make it to the highest ranks of management.
“Only 16 percent of senior executives are female in the Fortune 500, Natividad said. “The pool is too small. They’re not being recruited to rise to the top positions, so no one is putting them on boards.”
The Spencer Stuart study also found ...

A new survey by a recruiting firm says that women and people of color are still largely underrepresented in corporate boardrooms.

A study of 2,357 directors of the top 200 Standard & Poor’s 500 companies found ...

State senate passes South Dakota abortion ban

The only thing standing between a total abortion ban in South Dakota is the signature of an anti-choice governor. Terrific.

…After more than an hour of fierce and emotional debate, the senators rejected pleas to add exceptions for incest or rape or for the health of the pregnant woman and instead voted, 23 to 12, to outlaw all abortions, except those to save the woman’s life.

Gee, thanks. But if you’re raped by your dad, you’re just shit out of luck. What’s particularly disheartening about this is that it’s just a taste of things to come.

The only thing standing between a total abortion ban in South Dakota is the signature of an anti-choice governor. Terrific.

…After more than an hour of fierce and emotional debate, the senators rejected pleas to ...

Unmarried women more Democratic.

Who knew?

Unmarried women are “by far the most Democratic base, except for African-Americans,” said Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, the chief executive officer of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, which conducted the survey. “We ought to be looking at this” as a political opportunity, he added.
About 54 million women in America aren’t married, nearly half of all voting-age women, according to Greenberg. His survey, sponsored by the “Women’s Voices. Women Vote. Action Fund,” explored the reasons that 20 million single women elected not to vote in 2004.

One of the reasons they found that women were not voting was that unmarried women felt that politics are too complicated to understand. Now what kind of survey questions would ask such a thing? My unmarried ...

Who knew?

Unmarried women are “by far the most Democratic base, except for African-Americans,” said Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, the chief executive officer of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, which conducted the survey. “We ought to be looking at this” ...

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