Weekly News Update

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• Bloomberg View discusses differences between male and female CEOs, taking into account professional backgrounds, past life experiences, and more.
• New York magazine gives you a peek at the new Moynat collection of shoulder bags, totes, and more.
• Sally at Already Pretty gives some helpful guidelines on pant-length and current trends, for heels and flats.
• Typical corporate jobs are on the way out, says The Muse, and it's time to get ready for the future of project-based careers. (Do you agree — is that the way things seem to be going?)
• Forbes takes a look at a new collection of essays about lessons learned on the job,  Mistakes I Made At Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting it Wrong. (Any mistakes you want to share?)
• In the New York Post, author Farnoosh Torabi (When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women) and other professional women talk about being the breadwinner in the household.
• The Wall Street Journal's At Work blog checks out LinkedUp!, a new online-dating app created by a 28-year-old former investment banker that uses data from LinkedIn to help people screen potential matches.
• KurzweilAI discusses the findings of a UC Irvine study about factors contributing to greater longevity. (Here's a bit of good news for many of us: “People who drank up to two drinks per day [had] a 10-15 percent reduced risk of death compared to non-drinkers.”)
• The Public Library of Science's Public Health Perspectives blog advises us to be skeptical regarding certain health warnings about the food we eat.
• PopSugar Smart Living tells you the best ways to fly for less.