I attended a self-help retreat for top female executives — and ended up in tears

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Meet the world's 10 richest women who are jointly worth about $500 billion — almost as much as ExxonMobil

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Alice Walton
Alice Walton's net worth is $95 billion.

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There's a double-edged sword high performers face at work, and it's costing employers their talent

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Good feedback is vital for retaining top performers, though they are the ones who aren't getting it (stock image).

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I was a female Secret Service agent. Women can do the job just as well as men.

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Mary Beth Wilkas Janke was one of less than 200 female Secret Service agents in the early 1990s.

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Spouses — mostly women — could inherit $9 trillion from their partners in the next 25 years

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Women's economic power is going to change as Baby Boomers transfer their wealth to milennial women.
Women's economic power is going to change as Baby Boomers transfer their wealth to milennial women.

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We were child-free and lonely, so we started a walking group for other women — and 80 people showed up

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Sophie Curthoys (left) and Lisa Collins set up Women Who Walk to find female friendships.

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Unmarried Chinese women have found yet another way to get over the stigma of being single: Flee to the West and get another degree

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An Asian woman.

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12 famous women who served in the military

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Bea Arthur served in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve.

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Goldman Sachs keeps driving away women. I was one of them.

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Women keep leaving Goldman Sachs. What's going on?

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Goldman Sachs has a problem.

French people are being told to 'drive like a woman' to reduce traffic deaths

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Historically, female drivers in the US have lower insurance premiums because they're less likely to engage in risky driving behaviors.

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