Paper Trail
August 31st, 2008Amy Dickinson (of “Ask Amy”) married a childhood friend this weekend.
Rush Limbaugh thinks Sarah Palin is a “babe.” From the same piece I found out why her kids have the names they do - Track is named after high school track meets, Bristol for Bristol Bay where they did commercial fishing, Willow for a community in Alaska, Piper is just a cool name and Trig is Norse for “strength.” So Mo-Dowd treated me right, for once!
Forbes’ list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women came out this weekend - Angela Merkel was #1, followed by Sheila Bair, the Chairman of the U.S.’s Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Indra Nooyi, the chairman and chief executive of PepsiCo. Condoleezza Rice was #7, Nancy Pelosi came in at 35, followed by Hillary Clinton at 36.
Finally - in this impromptu feminist news tour:
A new study from York University in Toronto shows that what important executive women prize above all is emotional support, “a partner who listens to her and backs her respectfully when she’s angry or upset.” Researchers studied the attitudes of 20 married senior and executive women toward their husbands. When asked why housework was less significant, “the women explained that household help can be bought, whereas emotional support cannot.”