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American women are stressed out...but it could be worse
June 28, 2011: 3:49 PM ETWho is more stressed than an information-overloaded, work-and-family-balancing, time-starved American woman?
Women in India, Mexico, Russia and Brazil, according to a study released by Nielsen (NLSN) today.
For its "Women of Tomorrow" study, the information and measurement company polled nearly 6,500 women in 21 countries and found that women in emerging markets generally feel more stressed than those in developed countries.
But across the developed world, there are several countries--Spain, France, and Italy--where women claim to be more stressed than women in the U.S.
So, where in the world do the least stressed women reside? Go to liberal and egalitarian Sweden to find them.
And what about the "Women of Tomorrow"? When Nielsen asked about opportunities for the next generation of women, the most popular answer was "having access to technology." No surprise there. The least popular area of opportunity, among 18 listed in the survey, is more interesting: "reducing stress in your day-to-day life."
In other words, it's probably better to live in the stressful here and now than in an even more stressful tomorrow.
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Most Powerful Women go global
Women exercise power horizontally. I've said this often -- in speeches about leadership and at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, an annual event that I chair. This horizontal slant spurs women leaders to reach beyond the jobs they're hired to do.
Want proof? In May, 40 top female executives in the U.S. -- all participants in the Fortune Summit -- spent two and half weeks mentoring rising stars from 24 MORE
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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The Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership brings rising-star women from countries around the world to the U.S. for three-week mentorships with participants of the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit - among them Ursula Burns of Xerox, Laura Lang of Time Inc., Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, and Tory Burch.
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