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MiB: Women in Finance

Barry Ritholtz

Women are under-represented in the finance industry in general, but it has been improving (albeit slowly). I was rather oblivious to this fact, but once it was pointed out to me, we made a very specific effort to bring more women onto the show. In our discussion, we covered the lack of female representation at hedge funds.

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Visa On Bringing More Female Founders Into The Reinvention Of Retail

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In fact, women are founding new firms at 1.5 However, while women may be founding more businesses in the second decade of the 21st century than ever before, they are still collecting merely a fraction of the funding, Visa ’s Senior Vice President and Head of North American Marketing Mary Ann Reilly told Karen Webster.

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The Incredibly Unexpected World Of Leap Year Commerce

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Because there is no reasonable way to build an extra quarter-day into the calendar, we instead built a slight time debt that every four years is neutralized with the addition of one extra day to the calendar to balance things out. Other brands are building their pricing around leap day and the number 29. Now Google it.

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The Rise Of Returnable Insta-Fashions

PYMNTS

The photos are for posting in the Instagram “outfit of the day,” and it is becoming an increasingly common practice for consumers. Men and women aged 35 to 44. The official explanation given for that rather unexpected observation is that men are more socially self-conscious than women. For some, possibly.

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Bringing The Magic Of Makeup To Men, Subtly

PYMNTS

It also helped that JFK was younger and arguably better looking, and Nixon was recovering from the flu and was not looking his best that day. According to a SkinStore survey of 3,000 American women , the average American woman spends $300,000 on cosmetics over the course of a lifetime — or roughly the median price of a home in the U.S.

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How Tech Is Reinventing How Brides Say Yes To The Dress

PYMNTS

We hear about it anecdotally every day from our brides, in all the stories of tears and frustration. The reason most women have such a disheartening time buying a wedding dress, Vorhees told PYMNTS, is actually pretty simple: The process, end to end, wasn’t designed for an average woman. 1 dress for you. pic.twitter.com/6CqXmxSKJq.

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How TV Can Support Digital Marketing And Online Payments

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Samba also offers digital tags that let companies figure out who visits their websites after ads appear. Men spend nearly three hours each day watching TV, while women devote 2.5 Men spend nearly three hours each day watching TV, while women devote 2.5 hours a day watching television. consumers spend 4.4