"The image that the man has to be the breadwinner has changed."
- Maureen Honey, author of Creating Rosie the Riveter, on the fact that women are on the verge of outnumbering men in the U.S. workforce. USA Today's story about the trend notes stunning job losses for men: Through June, men have lost 74% of the 6.4 million jobs that have disappeared since the recession began in December 2007. MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 3, 2009 12:16 PM ET
by Jessica Shambora
We're toiling away on this year's Fortune Most Powerful Women in Business list, due out September 10. Anything can happen up to the minute we go to press, and this news today caused us to shuffle those yet-to be-unveiled rankings: Procter & Gamble's (PG) Melanie Healey is moving up to head the company's enormous North American business, effective October 1.
No. 37 on last year's MPWomen list, Healey currently MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 2, 2009 12:46 PM ET
"September is the Monday of months. It's back to school, back to work and back to the city. It means goodbye to all the lush and gaudy greens of the countryside and a return to the sober monochromes of the city."
-- Jeff Scher, a painter and experimental filmmaker. "Summer Retreat," an animated film that Scher created using oil pastels and watercolor, appears on the New York Times website, along with MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 1, 2009 6:33 PM ET
I thought I was dreaming.
After posting yesterday's rant against Time Warner Cable's (TWC) service "upgrade," can you imagine how I reacted at 6:30 this morning when I turned on my TV and found that all my favorite functions--which I'd thought were obliterated by the upgrade--were back in action?
Time Warner Cable (spun off recently from Time Warner (TWX), which owns Time Inc., Fortune's parent) responded to my complaining--I was sure of MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 1, 2009 3:06 PM ET
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Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie's blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.
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