power picks
“Power-full Women know how to network and share information. Whether it’s a great place to buy shoes, a way to look your best on a budget, innovations in health and nutrition, or a few tips to keep your family “green”, the Power Picks page is the place to come for new and useful information.
Power Picks will be updated every week, so check in regularly for ideas to make your “Power-full” life a little bit easier and a lot more fun. Our mothers and grandmothers used to exchange ideas over the back fence. Today, we don’t need a fence; we have the world wide web.
Got a Power Pick of your own that you’d like to share? Send it along to Info@PowerOfWomen.net. Our Power Picks Editor, Margo Mukkulainen will check it out. If your suggestion makes it in to Power Picks, we’ll send you one of our great Power Of Women purse-size notebooks or a Power Of Women pen as a thank you.
family/fun
The Power of Laughter
Our own Power Picks Editor, Margo Trott Mukkulainen, has a new humor blog over at Ladies’ Home Journal. We are both excited for her and concerned about the safety of various household appliances in home.
That would be about the well-being of the afore mentioned appliances and not Margo, just to be clear.
Family/Relationships
Least Surprising Housework Survey, Ever
The Vice President for Family Economic Security at the National Women's Law Center, Joan Entmacher, recently blogged on Womenstake.org that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released a short analysis of findings from it's American Time Use Survey that found that women, on average, spend more time doing unpaid housework than men. Not a shocker. What is surprising is that the biggest gender gap is not among middle-aged or retirement-aged women, but among 25-to-34 year olds. Women in that age group spend twice as many hours per week doing unpaid household work as men (roughly 32 to 16, respectively).
business/finance
What’s with the Science Gender Gap?
Human Development professor Wendy Williams and Developmental Psychology professor Stephen Ceci of Cornell University have received a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to establish the Cornell Institute for Women in Science (CIWS). The Cornell Daily Sun reports that the grant will also fund a series of studies about gender bias and the under-representation of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. The CIWS’s main focus will be on collecting data and disseminating research results through a broad educational campaign. Hopefully we'll see more femaie participation in these fields in the future.
Health/Beauty
Don’t Be a Travel Troll: Beauty Tips for
If you travel long distances, whether for business or pleasure, then you are probably familiar with “Travel Troll Syndrome.” That’s the bedraggled, slept-in-my-makeup-and-clothes appearance that can adversely affect your plans to hit the ground running at your final destination, not to mention your psyche. Luckily, WebMD.com has a great article called “18 Travel Beauty Tips -- to Go” about traveling and looking your best. The most practical tips include how to freshen up en route to your destination and how to apply your makeup for the longest possible wear before you embark on your journey.
Power Picks is edited by Margo Mukkulainen, a freelance writer whose work on a wide variety of topics has appeared in such national publications as “Prevention”, Women’s Health”, “Men’s Health”, and “Medizine”. Margo can be reached at Info@PowerOfWomen.net