Posted on 01/26/2014 10:22:34 AM PST by 1rudeboy
The under-representation of women at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos has been one of the more obvious elephants in the room.
At an event where Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, one of the most unequal developed nations when it comes to female representation in the workforce, pledged that "women will shine" as part of his economic policies, the proportion of women attending has fallen to 15 percent from 17 percent in 2011. Only 16.9 percent of board seats on Fortune 500 companies are held by women, and they are often the only people with two X chromosones on the board.
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Sorry, Catherine, they were in my suite.
War on Women!
Don’t get me started. We lost the dwarf-tossing competition on the final throw to a team from the CFR. I’m sure that dude was a ringer. He knew nothing about economics.
What man let this woman write an article?
Who is making her husband a sandwich?
LOLOL!!! 100%...
Wasn’t Sharon Stone supposed to return this year to re enact that infamous scene from Basic Instinct? That should be entertaining.
The “Money Honey” was there before officially kicking off her new gig at Fox http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-signs-maria-bartiromo-2014-1
Good thing too as I will only watch CNBC now for Rick Santelli’s spot at 8:30am EST on Squawk Box...
Most were in Paris being interviewed by Hollande — there’s an opening there now that he wants to fill.
PMSCNBC
just another Obama propaganda tool.
they just wanted hitlary there.
(part of the vote Hilary or you are sexist meme)
“Don’t get me started. We lost the dwarf-tossing competition on the final throw to a team from the CFR. I’m sure that dude was a ringer. He knew nothing about economics.”
Hehe...it wasn’t a dude. We needed to fill the spot with a diversity selection. She only looked like a dude. That was to please the NAGs.
nully *ducking* and running for cover...
That picture is a classic. I really hope that sign is real...
“pledged that “women will shine”
That’s from Fukushima, not Abe’s economic policies.
Where were the women? It was a BYOB (bring your own babe) event.
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