Weekly News Update

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• Fashionista offers advice on 20 trends — which to try and which to avoid — with the help of data from Google. Bye-bye (again), babydoll dresses.
• Wired tells you how to back up your files and carefully clear your work computer before you leave a job.
• To stop wasting women’s talents, we need to stop the fixation with youth, writes Margaret Hodge in The Guardian.
• Good news: It's Friday! Even better news: The days of sexism are over! Well, at least that's what the majority of men (56%) said in a new Pew Research Center survey, as The Washington Post reports.
• The Wall Street Journal explains why getting up extra-early can be helpful and talks to some (really) early birds.
• Ad Age profiles the fascinating Cindi Gallop.
• Speaking of fascinating: She's a nun! She's 86! She's completed 45 Ironman races! Today tells us about Sister Madonna Buder.
• What an amazing Olympics for women athletes! This New York Times story looks at the huge amount of progress that's been made over the past 50 years and puts it in perspective. (Also, yay for Kathy Smith workouts.)
• For your Laugh of the Week, The Onion has some news from the beauty industry.
• Here's a bonus: your Feel-Good Video of the Week, from The Hollywood Reporter, who reports, “Fox rounded up a group of cute kids and polled them on if they thought a woman could ever pitch in the big-leagues. Then they showed them footage of [Kylie] Bunbury's Ginny Baker making history on Pitch.”

On CorporetteMoms Recently…          

• We talked about mommying your husband.
• Kat shared some clothes for working moms, including some maternity basics and washable office clothes.

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