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Kellye Walker made General Counsel at American Water Works
American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), appointed Kellye L. Walker Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Kellye had been Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Diageo North America, Inc. Read more in the Business Wire press release.

Business Week names Ursula Burns CEO of Xerox as one of the top 20 most Inspirational Leaders of today.

Fourera Soumana

With the temperature hovering around 100 degrees, Fourera Soumana travels to the market in western Niger with her donkey cart piled high with hand-woven mats. Although hundreds come from all over to sell their wares at this loud, noisy market, Soumana is one of the best known-a 50-year-old widow who runs her own business and is enjoying prosperity for the first time in her life. Soumana is an unusual woman with an amazing success story. To read the complete article, please click here.

Self & Spirit

Just imagine: Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
-Samuel Taylor Coleride

WBB Snapshot

The New York Observer

Study: Women outnumber men on most social media sites
Step aside, gentlemen. When it comes to social media, it's a woman's world. According to data taken from Google's U.S. Ad Planner, a site that tracks popular Web sites' traffic, 84 percent (16 out of 19) of social media Web sites are frequented more by women than by men. The Web site Pingdom, which collected the data from Ad Planner, found that 59 percent of Twitter users and 57 percent of Facebook users are female. About 52 percent of LinkedIn users are female. The most female-dominated site is Bebo, which is 66 percent female, followed by MySpace and Classmates.com, each 64 percent female. Bookmarking sites like Slashdot, Digg and Reddit are more popular among men. "If we hadn't included the three [bookmarking] sites, all of the sites would have had more females than males," according to Pingdom.

Women's History
1848: Seneca Falls Convention, first to discuss women's rights, July 19-20

In 1920, women received the right to vote in the United States with the passage of the 19th Amendment"

1993: Supreme Court rules that sexual harassment in the workplace is illegal

What Companies Need to Develop Women Leaders
By Anna Marie Valerio, Business Week

Women are in the majority of those now earning college and graduate degrees. Here's what business can do to train them for leadership roles. Retaining talented women in corporations is more critical than ever. Successful organizations know that developing individuals who can truly lead in the global economy gives them a competitive advantage. My interviews with high achievers of both genders in Fortune 500 companies and universities have revealed much about leadership today. For the first time in history, the attraction, retention, and development of talented women has become an important issue for many American corporations. To read the complete article, please click here

How Minority-Owned Businesses Can Catch a Break By Amy S. Choi, Business Week

Minority- and women-owned businesses may not be using all the resources-such as professional associations and municipalities-that can help them. To read the complete article, please click here.