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Captain Janeway As A Powerful Female Role Model? Captain Janeway? Really? OK, I am giving myself away as an unrepentant female geek and Trekkie. While I do not attend conventions, or dress up in Enterprise (or Voyager) uniforms, I have certainly re watched a lot of Star Trek episodes and movies with my Nextflix...
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Surprising Ill Effects Of Sleep Deprivation Most of us spent our early parenting years reminding our kids to get enough sleep. When did we forget to remind ourselves? It must have been some time between breast feeding, juggling kids and a job, and the present day. Maybe it’s time to catch up on that...
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Do YouUse LinkedIn? One of the most common questions that I get from less Internet savvy friends is how to use LinkedIn effectively for job searches or business. The giant business social networking website can be a very useful tool. But if you do not use it well, it can also be useless, or...
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We know that money is not the thing that really makes us happy. It may even really be the root of all evil. However, a lack of money can certainly damper our mood. That is why we devote this section to a lot of different topics about ways me make, invest, keep, spend, and...
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Should Older Women Make Midlife Career Changes? Midlife career changes are tough for everybody. Today, a growing number of women have been face with the choice of attempting to stay with their old job choice until retirement, or of finding a new path in midlife. Unfortunately, some women have not been given this choice,...
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What Is Love? Well, we older ladies have probably already had a lot of illusions shattered about handsome knights on white horses. However, our capacity for love is probably a lot more well tested than it was when we were blushing little princesses. In this section, we hope to explore all sorts of relationships...
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Get Back Into Dating After A Break Up Older women who have been single a long time, or always single, seem to have few problems dating. But those of us who had a breakup, divorce, or death, after a long time with a partner, do not find it easy to resume our old dating...
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What Is The Power Section About? We hope to educate, inform, and empower older women here. Nothing quite catches the feeling, for us, like the old Rosie The Riveter posters. During World War II, when a lotof men went off to war, the women stayed behind to do a lot more than just keep...
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Ladies, You Need To Save More For Retirement! We already know that retirement savings is one of the top baby boomer concerns. What may be surprising is that women, especially single women, are really behind when it comes to socking money away for a comfortable retirement. It’s A Middle Class Problem First, let me...
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Meet Powerful Women Over 50 Just in case you are feeling to old, or worse, too female, to conquer your world, take some inspiration from this list of the world’s most powerful women. The basis for our list came from the 2011 Forbe’s list of powerful women.  We hope to expand on it. Angela...
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