The Daughter Also Rises

"The emerging world is home to many self-made businesswomen who have risen from low-level jobs to leadership positions and personal fortunes. Seven of the fourteen women identified on Forbes magazine's list of self-made billionaires are Chinese. Many firms in emerging markets do a better job of promoting women than their Western rivals, some surveys suggest.

"In China, 32 percent of senior managers are female, compared with 23 percent in America and 19 percent in Britain. In India, 11 percent of chief executives of large companies are female, compared with 3 percent of Fortune 500 bosses in America and 3 percent of FTSE 100 bosses in Britain.

"Turkey and Brazil come third and joint fourth (behind Finland and Norway) in the World Economic Forum's ranking of countries by the proportion of CEOs who are women. In Brazil, 11 percent of chief executives and 30 percent of senior executives are women.

"Wise firms focus on the two biggest problems for working women in emerging markets: looking after their aging parents, which is typically more of a problem than child care, and commuting."

Read the rest in the Economist.

No, 9/11 Did Not Change the World

"Just about everything has changed since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington DC 10 years ago, writes Philip Stephens. The contours of the geopolitical and economic landscapes have been redrawn. The curious thing is how little the changes owe to 9/11.

"Osama bin Laden grabbed a decade's worth of headlines, but the future was being written in Beijing, Delhi, Rio and beyond. The world has indeed been turned upside down, but Afghanistan, Iraq and the badlands of Waziristan have been a smokescreen, obscuring the bigger story of the past decade.

"The changes that have mattered have been in the rising states of Asia and Latin America. Ten years on, the strategic challenge to the US comes from the rapid reallocation of power. The global order no longer belongs to the west."

Read the full article in the FT.

An Immune System Trained to Kill Cancer

It sounds like science fiction -- to train a body to kill off all the cancer cells and start over, but some researchers have seemingly been able to create this effect. Inspiring story in the NYT research section. (Thanks Julia!)

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?

I do!

... "Three men doing time in Israeli prisons recently appeared before a parole board consisting of a judge, a criminologist and a social worker. The three prisoners had completed at least two-thirds of their sentences, but the parole board granted freedom to only one of them." Guess which one in the NYT article.

Neil Pasricha: The 3 A's of awesome

You know I love the 1000 Awesome Things website. Here is the founder's TED talk. Just as good!

(Thanks, Gloria)

Do Happier People Work Harder?

Find the answer in the NYT.

This might be the cutest thing I have seen all week

And it gets even cuter when she met Nicki...

(Thanks, Jillian!)