Hiring more women could ease oil firms' skills gap
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Recruiting and retaining more women by setting quotas could help big international oil and gas firms cope with a severe shortage of skilled staff in future, a senior executive at Royal Dutch Shell said.
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Are Norway's tough methods to push women beyond the glass ceiling the best way to change corporate culture, asks the BBC's Stephanie Holmes.
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By Marcia Heroux Pounds, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 9--Women are still trying to break the glass ceiling in Florida.   The second annual survey of Florida's women directors and executive officers is in, and the news is not much to cheer about.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Female scientists, engineers and product developers still face barriers in climbing the career ladder due to a lack of role models, mentors and access to networks, according to a new study.
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Women in science and engineering are hindered by bias and Âoutmoded institutional structuresÂ in academia, an expert panel reported.
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Recent conferences highlight growing efforts to include women in the struggle to end brutal conflicts.
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Limited spare capacity means that the ability of oil producers to meet the sharpest rise in demand since the 1970s is likely to be severely tested, according to experts attending an OPEC-sponsored seminar in Vienna.
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A new study challenges the conventional wisdom that women talk more than men do.
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They've been a key part of her base, but Obama may have closed the gender gap.
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In surfing, the participation and performance of women have been surging, boosting industry profits. But gender equity for the sport remains a point of contention.
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Is the women's retailer on the road to recovery?
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Female undergraduates work harder and are more open-minded than males, leading to better results, say scientists.
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Older women and migrant families boost births.
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Women who work shifts are more likely to retire early due to ill health than male peers, a study suggests.
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A lack of women in cardiology is damaging the quality of treatment and research, a report warns.
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Media & professional: Gap remains almost as wide as a decade ago, despite women outperforming men academically.
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Women who work are healthier than women who don&#39;t have jobs, suggests a study presented this week at the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco.