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Musicmystery -> RE: Curiouser and Curiouser (5/31/2014 1:50:27 PM)
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ORIGINAL: FieryOpal
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
That's nonsense. Male or female, the response will be partisan based, not gender motivated.
I saw a video where someone tried to make this point, a male and female business speaker delivering similar texts. Trouble is, it was totally contrived. He smiled and held out his open hands when speaking, she frowned and jabbed her finger at the audience. Reverse those gestures, reverse the perception. Duh.
This is only partially true re partisanship as you and Zonie have indicated. Women are expected to act feminine, yet when they do, they don't get taken seriously in a position of authority in the public sector, so I respectfully disagree.
You can disagree, but it's not true what you say. These women certainly have no trouble being taken seriously:
Of the 100 remarkable women on the 2013 list of the World’s Most Powerful Women, you’ll find CEOs and heads of state, philanthropists, billionaires and bureaucrats. But while they all have the power to shape–and reshape–our world, within the ranks of the 100 is an even more elite power list: the 17 women who built their power–and their businesses–from the ground up.
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Oprah Winfrey (No. 13)
Oprah Winfrey is the founder three times over: Founder of Harpo Productions, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and founder of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.
Beyonce Knowles-Carter (No. 17)
Beyonce created the fashion label House of Dereon with her mother, Tina Knowles, in 2004. In May of 2012 Beyonce added another credit to her entrepreneurial CV when she launched shop.beyonce.com, a branded apparel and accessory marketplace.
Sofia Vergara (No. 38)
Offstage the Modern Family star is the critical co-founder of a 17-year-old talent management and new media company, LatinWE, which pulled in an estimated $27 million last year. This year saw the release of a social networking site connecting Latino talent with fans. A Pepsi spokeswoman calls the company “the connective tissue between Pepsi and the Hispanic marketplace.”
Cher Wang (No. 46)
Wang and CEO Peter Chou cofounded HTC in 1997, and have remained as its leaders as it developed from a manufacturer for other smartphone companies to a leading Android brand.
Wu Yajun (No. 48)
The former journalist-turned-entrepreneur relinquished her crown as China’s richest woman after her divorce last year, but she still holds a $4.3 billion fortune and leads Longfor, a real estate business with a market cap of $10 billion.
Zhang Xin (No. 50)
Zhang and her husband are the cofounders SOHO China, a dominant Beijing real estate development firm, and are billionaire-entrepreneurs with a combined fortune of $3.6 billion.
Arianna Huffington (No. 56)
Huffington created the Pulitzer prize-winning (and AOL assimilated) Huffington Post which continues its momentum in 2013 expanding to new international editions. In May, Huffington Post Japan marked the media site’s first Asian outpost, following Canada, U.K., France, Spain and Italy.
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Rosalia Mera (No. 66)
Rosalia Mera cofounded Inditex (the parent company of discount fashion retailer Zara) with ex-husband Amancio Ortega. Mera dropped out of school at age 11 to work as a seamstress, then helped her then-husband make dressing gowns and lingerie in their home. The couple has long-since divorced and Mera left Inditex but she retains a 5.1% stake in the $20.5 billion company.
Tory Burch (No. 69)
The billionaire Queen of the $200 ballet flat, the 2008 CFDA winner paid her dues working with designers Vera Wang, Ralph Lauren RL +0.27% and Narciso Rodriguez before launching her own brand out of her Manhattan apartment in 2004. Her self-titled lifestyle lines range from accessories to ready-to-wear, and benefited early from an endorsement by Oprah Winfrey in 2005.
Diane von Furstenberg (No. 74)
The Belgian-born von Furstenberg may have begun designing clothing in 1970 with $30K, but has since risen to the top of the industry, now wielding the power of the president of the trade association of the country’s top 350 designers.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (No. 85)
India’s first biotech entrepreneur Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw founded Biocon in 1978 when she was 25 by partnering with an Irish firm to make industrial enzymes.
Weili Dai (No. 88)
Dai has the distinction of being the only woman co-founder of an American semiconductor company. The Chinese-born, U.S.-educated “geek” cofounded Marvell Technology Group MRVL -1.08% in 1995 with her husband, Sehat Sutardja.
Sara Blakely (No. 90)
At 29 Blakely invested her entire life savings, $5,000, trying to come up with something flattering to wear under her white slacks. Six months later the one-time Disney World ride greeter and door-to-door fax machine salesperson found her new line of shaping underwear named one of Oprah Winfrey’s Favorite Things. Since then Blakely has taken Spanx from a one-product wonder sold out of her Atlanta apartment to a powerhouse with $250 million in annual revenues and net profit margins estimated at 20%.
J.K. Rowling (No. 93)
It was wizardry that transformed J.K. Rowling from a destitute single mother on welfare into a best-selling billionaire. Her adventures of teenage magician Harry Potter and his classmates at Hogwarts became a children’s literary sensation in 1998 with the U.S. publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. It and the six subsequent books have now sold 500 million copies worldwide. A film franchise and theme parks have kept the profits rolling in, making J.K. Rowling far more than just an author by anyone’s measure.
Gisele Bundchen (No. 95)
The world’s most powerful supermodel is also a natural skincare entrepreneur. Her line, Sejaa, has reportedly been in ongoing negotiations with Shiseido for years without reaching terms.
Yang Lan (No. 100)
One of the most powerful women in Chinese media — and often called China’s Oprah — Lan cofounded Sun Media with her second husband, Hong Kong media mogul Bruno Wu. Their multiplatform empire spans TV, newspapers and magazines and the Web, and she is a leading television host who has interviewed Bill and Hillary Clinton and Kobe Bryant.
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