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A Friend Stopped By | 07/09/2008 12:00 am

For Women in Asia It's Still: 'Who's Your Daddy?' by Vishakha N. Desai

For women trying to get ahead in Asia, it’s not what or who you know. It’s who your father or husband is. Asia Society President Vishakha N. Desai on the global glass ceiling

By Vishakha N. Desai

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Judith Martin | 09/02/2008 12:00 am

Judith Martin Seeks Career Advice

Do you know of any other career where a woman …

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Liz Smith | 09/02/2008 12:00 am

Liz Smith: A Trophy Wife?

If I could switch careers today, I would like to be one of those young trophy wives

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Question of the Day | 09/02/2008 12:00 am

If you could switch careers today, what would you choose as your new field?

If Judith Martin, Joan Ganz Cooney and Liz Smith had the chance to change careers, here are the new fields they would pick

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Joan Ganz Cooney | 09/02/2008 12:00 am

The One Thing Joan Ganz Cooney Doesn't Regret

I have no regrets on that score

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Post | 08/20/2008 1:00 pm

Professional Women Their Own Worst Enemies?

Study: Women often sabotage their own rise on corporate ladders, essentially, because they don’t brag enough, new study suggests

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

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Post | 08/20/2008 12:00 am

The wOw Cartoon of the Week: Hairy Situation

The New Yorker’s Liza Donnelly’s latest on love, life and liberation

By Liza Donnelly

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Liz Smith | 08/13/2008 5:00 pm

Does Helen Thomas Read Drudge? Not if She Can Help It

‘The slow demise of print journalism is a national tragedy’ and other thoughts from Helen Thomas, in Liz Smith’s interview on the upcoming exclusive HBO documentary, ‘Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House,’ which debuts Monday, August 18 (9:00-9:45 PM ET/PT)

With Liz Smith

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Question of the Day | 08/13/2008 12:00 am

Why is the new Batman movie, 'The Dark Knight,' breaking records at the box office?

With the late Heath Ledger as the Joker and the fallen Christian Bale as Batman, ‘The Dark Knight’ might become the all-time box office champ. What do Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Reed, Joan Ganz Cooney, Mary Wells and Liz Smith attribute the movie’s success to?

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Post | 08/12/2008 12:00 am

The wOw Cartoon of the Week: An Ageless Democracy

The New Yorker’s Liza Donnelly’s latest on love, life and liberation

By Liza Donnelly

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Conversation | 08/05/2008 12:15 pm

The Vancouver Conversations Part One: A Few wOw Women Remember Traumas and Dramas in High School, First Jobs, First Children

Cynthia McFadden, Mary Wells, Lesley Stahl, Joni Evans and Liz Smith revisit the early choices and influences that shaped their lives

With Cynthia McFadden, Joni Evans, Lesley Stahl, Liz Smith and Mary Wells

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Candice Bergen | 08/05/2008 12:00 pm

Candice Bergen: A Walking, Talking Contradiction

My biggest contradiction is that while being basically an introvert …

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A Book Friend Stopped By | 08/04/2008 10:45 am

Pink Shoes and Presidents, by Julie Salamon

Author and ‘wOw Friend’ Julie Salamon asks: Do clothes make the woman or do we make too much of a woman’s clothes?

Click here to see what else is going on at the wOw Book Party

By Julie Salamon

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Judith Martin | 07/31/2008 10:50 am

Judith Martin: Don't Believe Everything You Hear

I continue to love studying history …

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Question of the Day | 07/30/2008 12:00 am

What contradiction have you embraced?

Liz Smith and Judith Martin confess that it’s their lives work, to some extent

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Three Women and a Baby, by Diane Clehane

After losing her mother, ‘wOw Friend’ Diane Clehane gains a daughter … and the courage to raise her

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Today 12:00 am

Who or what do you think you were in a past life?

I believe that every atom in my body has been recycled a vast number of times and probably, during the recycling, I was part of the interplanetary dust, a swirling nova, a bubbling primordial soup, a

— Sam Mirando

09/05/2008 12:00 am