April 7 at 12:46 p.m.
Filed under:
Autos
By Reuters
The efficient Mini was the car with highest percentage of women buyers. (Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty)
Men prefer their cars beefy or fast, while women go for lower price tags and higher miles per gallon, according to a survey released Thursday. TrueCar.com, which studied data from 8 million purchases in the United States last year, found BMW AG’s Mini had the highest percentage of female buyers at 48 percent, while 93 percent of buyers for Fiat SpA’s Ferrari were men.
“The study shows that women car buyers are more cost-conscious and purchased fuel-efficient vehicles while male buyers were completely the opposite, purchasing vehicles that were either big and brawny, like a large truck, or chose a high-priced, high-performance vehicle,” TrueCar analyst Jesse Toprak said in a statement. Get the full story »
March 28 at 6:06 a.m.
Filed under:
Litigation,
Retail,
Work culture
From the New York Times | When the Supreme Court considers on Tuesday whether hundreds of thousands of women can band together in an employment discrimination suit against Wal-Mart, the argument may hinge on the validity of the hotly disputed conclusions of a Chicago sociologist.
Plaintiffs in the class-action suit, who claim that Wal-Mart owes billions of dollars to as many as 1.5 million women who they say were unfairly treated on pay and promotions, enlisted the support of William T. Bielby, an academic specializing in “social framework analysis.” Get the full story>>
Feb. 3 at 7:22 a.m.
Filed under:
Health care,
Work culture
By Reuters
Newly trained female doctors in the United States make nearly $17,000 less than their male counterparts, even though women increasingly are choosing careers in higher-paying medical specialties, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
They said there has been a widening gender gap in starting salaries for female doctors, rising from a difference of $3,600 in 1999 to $16,819 in 2008. Get the full story »
July 28, 2010 at 9:54 a.m.
Filed under:
Internet
By Sandra M. Jones
When it comes to social networking, women outshine men, according to a study released today from comScore Inc.
Women spend more time on social networking sites than men– averaging 5.5 hours per month compared to 3.9 hours for men, said the Reston, Va.-based Internet research firm. Get the full story »
