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The comments on the article quickly turned into a troll-fest:

Glad to see that anonymous woman-bashing is still a favorite pastime of so many up-and-coming members of the educated power elite.

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“She’s a millionairess…she needs someone to say ‘Hey wench, shut the f*** up or I’ll throw you up against the wall.’”

© 2008 Monroe's Dragonfly

Props to the guy, who completely ignored the advice. He planned a date in a garden-restaurant in NYC and a day at Coney Island. No walls in sight. The report from the millionairess? “He seems really sincere and kinda like himself.” Shocking.

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Last time I told work I was pregnant, I had a wonderfully inappropriate response from a supervisor. This time she said: “Ok… so, it’s too late now, but after you have this one, you and I have to have a serious discussion about your family planning options.”

Incidents like these call for a little dose of Madeleine Albright: “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”

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From the title, you might think that Forbes was apologizing for their oversight in failing to include a representative sample of women for 11 out of 12 featured fields. But you would be wrong. According to Forbes, women are notably absent from the 4 tech-related lists because they “fail to make their mark on Forbes editors.” In other words, we noticed, we thought about it, and we published it anyway. And the other 7 fields? Apparently, 29% raises no eyebrows among the Forbes editorial staff. Surely our readers will applaud the fact that we are recognizing so many young female rockstars!

© 2008 ChristopherTitzer

So what, pray tell, should we women do differently next time?  Simple. Just “crush it,” “speak up,” and “enlist a director of marketing.” Sounds eerily similar to the advice that Forbes so generously doled out to those “poor black kids” earlier this month.

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It’s bad enough that only 11% of the Forbes 400 Richest People in America are women. But it’s even worse when you realize that, although 70% of the list’s members are self-made, by our calculations, only 5% of its women are independently wealthy. We had to scroll all the way down to #139 to find the first: Oprah.

© 2011 401K

Overall, only 0.5% of the fortunate few are ladies who made it on their own. If these numbers are any indication, 99.5% of “the 1 percent” are men. Gives a whole new meaning to the Occupy movement, doesn’t it?

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© 2011 Forbes.com, LLC

We were excited to read the Forbes 30 under 30 list, until the notable lack of women featured hit us in the face. The numbers speak for themselves—only 28% of the shout-outs feature women. Here’s the breakdown by field:

• Art & Design: 10/30
• Energy: 8/30
• Entertainment: 10/30
• Finance: 8/30
• Food & Wine: 6/30
• Law & Policy: 10/30
• Media: 16/30
• Music: 11/30
• Real Estate: 6/30
• Science: 9/30
• Social & Mobile: 4/30
• Technology: 2/30

So much for all those bright young women that are supposed to be coming up the pipeline…

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