Research: Women Make Better Bosses

"Women make better bosses. That’s the finding of a new survey, which found that women in management positions lead in a more democratic way, allow employees to participate in decision-making and establish interpersonal channels of communication."

10 Worst Stereotypes About Powerful Women

"While male leaders are allowed to have complex personalities, powerful women are often summed up by hackneyed stereotypes that undermine them and their power."

Mixed Results on Efforts to Include More Women at the Corporate Board Table

"Although women have been steadily gaining ground for years in the workforce, both in the U.S. and abroad, they still occupy a very small number of board seats in big companies."

Fortune: 25 Highest-Paid Women

"Oracle's Safra Catz raked in a whopping $42 million in total compensation last year. See how much the other top earners took home."

10 Global Women on the Rise

Here are 10 newcomers to this year's list of global power brokers.

HP's Whitman Sets the Record for Female Fortune 500 CEOs

"With Meg Whitman nabbing the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard--and the four women at the bottom of this list (below) new to the top job this year--America now has 15 female Fortune 500 CEOs."

Fortune: 50 Most Powerful Women in Business

This is Fortune magazine's "annual ranking of America's leading businesswomen." You also can see the ranking from several previous years.

HP's Whitman Sets the Record for Female Fortune 500 CEOs

"With Meg Whitman nabbing the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard--and the four women at the bottom of this list (below) new to the top job this year--America now has 15 female Fortune 500 CEOs."

Male Bosses Still Preferred over Female Ones

"Almost half of U.S. workers say they don't care if they have male or a female boss, a Gallup poll suggests. While 32 percent of those polled said they would prefer to work for a male and 22 percent said they preferred to work for a female, the edge for a male boss is the smallest it has been since Gallup began asking the question in 1953."

Getting a Grip on Power: 10 Tips for a Successful Career

"Ever since Fortune, in 1998, started ranking the top women in business (yes, we were first), I've been asking the stars of the Most Powerful Women list how they reached the top and how they stay there. One month away from revealing our 2011 MPW rankings, now seems a good time to share some of their best career tips."

German Chancellor Merkel Tops Powerful Women List

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel topped the Forbes list of the world's most powerful women, which is dominated by politicians, businesswomen and leaders in media and entertainment." Full list is here

Women Take Different Risks Than Men

"Conventional wisdom holds that women take fewer risks than men but U.S. researchers say women take different kinds of risks than men, such as social risks."

Global 500 Women CEOs

"Powerful women in business have enjoyed several victories over the past 12 months. Here's a look at the women CEOs whose companies have made this year's Global 500 list and how they made it to where they are today."

Susy Welsh Article - Five Mistakes Women Bosses Make

". . . there are a handful of mistakes women bosses tend to make more than men—five, to be exact. Not that men don't make these mistakes; they do, but much less often. Why? The explanation, in each case, has its roots in cultural and social traditions, and maybe even genetics. In the end, understanding why women make these mistakes is less important than understanding how they can avoid them."

Pauline Nyiramasuhuko: Profile of Rwandan Woman Killer

"Sixty-five-year old Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, who has been sentenced to life in prison, has been described as a tyrant and one of the key players in instigating the Rwandan genocide in the south-western border town of Butare."

New Leader in European Higher Education

"The first female president of the European University Association has vowed to use her term of office to smash the glass ceiling for women working in higher education."

Ten Women on Top: Powerful Women CEOs

"Here's a look at 10 high-powered female CEOs who have taken the business world by storm."

TIME Article - "Air Boss"

"Operation Odyssey Dawn also marked the first time in U.S. history that a woman commanded a military air campaign."

16 of History's Most Rebellious Women

"In honor of International Women's Day, TIME looks at some unlikely revolutionaries, from Joan of Arc to Harriet Tubman and a modern-day mother of three who became a key democracy activist in Yemen."

U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Women in America

"Women have higher graduation rates than men at all academic levels and by 2019 they are projected to account for 60 percent of all American undergraduates. In 2009, they accounted for more than half of all people employed in management and professional occupations. But at all levels of education, women still earn only 75 percent of what men earn. Those are among the nuggets contained in a new statistical compendium, Women in America, released on March 1, 2011. by the White House."