Powered by BJP, Nitish wins in the Bihar polls. Point to note, more women voted than men.
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The telugu movie Orange releases tomorrow. Promotions include the loud declaration “Ram Charan Tej’s Orange releases tomorrow”. Ram Charan Tej is only two movies old and the leading lady of the movie, Genelia D’souza has proven herself in over 25+ movies across languages all at 27 years of age.
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An interesting time line (source foreign policy magazine):
1942: With America’s men away at war, women take up civilian jobs at home. Between 1940 and 1950, the proportion of married women ages 45 to 55 in the workforce doubles from 10 to 20 percent. In Britain, about 9 out of 10 single women and 8 of 10 married women are employed.
1954: Future Nobel laureate W. Arthur Lewis argues, “One of the surest ways of increasing the national income” is for women to work outside the home. The Soviet Union takes such advice to heart; by 1970, 9 out of 10 Russian women ages 16 to 54 are either in school or the workplace.
June 10, 1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy signs the Equal Pay Act, which attempts to end the gender gap in wages. At the time, an American woman earns about 60 cents for every dollar earned by a man.
1976: Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus begins his first experiments with microcredit, with a focus on teaching disadvantaged Bangladeshi women how to manage small amounts of money.
1979: With women holding management positions in U.S. companies at just half the rate of men, two women at Hewlett-Packard, Katherine Lawrence and Marianne Schreiber, coin the term “glass ceiling.”
1994: Lawrence Summers, then chief economist at the World Bank, finds that educating women and girls is, dollar for dollar, far more efficient at reducing poverty and boosting social indicators than big infrastructure projects.
May 18, 1998: Newsweek coins the term “womenomics,” arguing that the Asian financial crisis has been a blessing in disguise: Japanese women join the labor force in droves, at cheaper salaries than men.
August 13, 1999: Portfolio manager Kathy Matsui authors a report on Japan for Goldman Sachs: “Women-omics: Buy the Female Economy.” Over the next seven years, her recommended investments wildly outperform the Japanese market as a whole.
September 2000: The U.N. General Assembly adopts the Millennium Development Goals, a set of anti-poverty targets for 2015 that officially enshrine the idea that women are instrumental to societal well-being.
April 12, 2006: The Economist turns a concept into a buzzword with “A Guide to Womenomics,” noting that women represent a mere 15 percent of directors on U.S. corporate boards and just 7 percent worldwide. The buzzword becomes Womenomics, a book by two journalists, three years later.
2009: Pundits dub the global financial crisis the “he-cession,” as the economic downturn hits men harder than women. Writing in FP, Reihan Salam says, “For years, the world has been witnessing a quiet but monumental shift of power from men to women.” A year later in the Atlantic, Hanna Rosin takes the argument a step further, asking: “What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women?”
September 2010: Worldwide, an estimated 70 percent of women now regularly work outside the home and in many places are the majority of university graduates. These gains are paying off for developing countries’ GDPs, but not always for women themselves, who still make about 20 percent less than men in the U.S. and, Sarah Palin aside, lack opportunities in political life. In a whopping 75 percent of parliaments worldwide, less than a quarter of all seats are occupied by women.
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