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Friday, February 17, 2012

The Jane Dough Newsletter - Chris Matthews Outraged At Foster Friess Over "A Joke About Women"

	Chris Matthews Outraged At Foster Friess Over "A Joke About Women" Chris Matthews is very upset that someone would make "a joke about women." Yes, I tried to type that with a straight face. Read More »
	Fortune Cookie Claims "A Man's Best Possession Is A Sympathetic Wife" A few weeks ago, as part of our vitally important coverage of fortune cookie scribes, The Jane Dough received a weirdly offensive-by-syntax fortune from our post-lunch cookie. The fortune read "When two men in a business always agree, one of them is unnecessary." Little did we know it could actually get worse. Read More »
	Is Heiress Petra Ecclestone's $85M House Full Of Mold? Before you buy a new house, you usually get some kind of inspection to make sure there aren't dead bodies in the basement or asbestos in the ceiling. If you buy an $85 million house, you get a professor with an advanced degree to do the inspection. It's not entirely unreasonable. Read More »
	10 Tips For Writing More Professional Emails How you write a work email isn't going to make or break your career (well, in most cases). But your email etiquette can affect how seriously you're taken, and even how well you're liked, in the workplace. Read on for 10 things to keep in mind before hitting send. Read More »
	Why Female CIOs Are Dominating The Fortune 500 [Infographic] Did you know that five of the 10 top-paid CIOs at Fortune 500 companies are women? Read More »
	Report: Over 80% Of Women Are Saving For Retirement In case you hadn't heard already, it's officially time to retire the retro housewife stereotype -- you know, the one where she's sneaking away with her husband’s credit card to hit the racks, hoping he won't notice the extra large bill the next month? Women of all generations are becoming more financially self reliant, and are much less likely to accept help from their husbands, or any other family member for that matter, when in economic straits, according to a new survey from MetLife. Read More »
	Flickr Founder Caterina Fake Has A New Startup That Lets You Leave Notes Around The World Caterina Fake is well-known the tech startup world for starting the popular photo site Flickr, which she sold to Yahoo for a nice little fee. Now she's got something new in the works. Read More »
	Live From The Red Carpet At Occupy Fashion Week...With All 5 Protesters Who Showed Up We talked to nearly every protester who showed up at the Calvin Klein fashion show today, in Occupy Wall Street's attempt to occupy fashion week on its last day. Talking to all of them wasn't too difficult, since only five or six made it. The plan had been to march up to 39th Street, where the show was taking place, and try to get attendees to paint their faces red for the 2 p.m. show. If that didn't work out, they'd try to shut down the second 3 p.m. show. Calvin Klein took notice and heightened security, and the media was ready and watching. As you'll see, things didn't exactly go according to plan. Read More »
	Female Journalism Students Outnumber Dudes 2-to-1 -- Yet Few Become Editors Think gender bias in the media is getting better? A new report from the Women's Media Center says no way. The report (you can check out the PDF here) shows that women have made few inroads in media -- in leadership positions or even as subjects. This, despite the fact that we're all heading off to journalism school in droves. Read More »
	EOD Dossier 2/16 EOD Thursday: Today we found out how much the most expensive drink at Starbucks costs, heard a horrifying new Chris Brown pickup line rumor and witnessed one of the best anchorwoman bloopers ever. Read on for more. Read More »
	PETA Thinks Battered Women Make A Great Selling Point For Veganism Well, gosh darn it, they've done it again. Just when we thought PETA had realized that promoting their meatless agenda with incredibly offensive ad campaigns is perhaps not the greatest idea, they've launched a new one. Seriously, what is up with PETA and their ability to horrify us with each new ad? Read More »
	You Need To Read The Poem Australia's Richest Woman Just Wrote The richest woman in Australia, mining mogul Gina Rinehart, has written a poem about the Australian government and mining in North Australia. To be blunt, it is not very good. But it does rhyme! Read More »