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Good morning, WMPW readers! A German energy exec makes a comeback, women are underrepresented on U.K. tech company boards, and, if she gets the chance, Melania Trump is expected to be a traditional FLOTUS. Want to share some news about a powerful woman? Get in touch, at: laura.cohn@gmail.com or @laurascohn. Enjoy your weekend!
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THE BIG STORY
[bs-title]German widow makes corporate comeback[/bs-title]
[bs-content]When German exec Regine Stachelhaus left her HR job at the world's largest investor-owned electric utility in 2013 to take care of her ill husband, industry observers thought they'd heard the last of her. But Stachelhaus, who was the third woman to make the top ranks of a DAX 30 firm, is back in the fray. She sits on boards of four public companies, a university, and a foundation. In Germany, women hold fewer than 20% of such seats. Stachelhaus says women have a tough time in her country. "When they succeed, other executives ask, 'Who helped them?'" she says. "When they fail, they say, 'We expected that.'" She's shown them.[/bs-content][bs-link link="http://fortune.com/2016/05/04/regine-stachelhaus-germany-comeback/" source="Fortune"]
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EUROPE/MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
[bs-title]Truant in tech[/bs-title]
[bs-content]While women have made it onto the boards at FTSE 100 companies, they're underrepresented in the U.K.'s tech industry. In London, only one in four tech firms has a woman on its board.[/bs-content]
[bs-link link="http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/may/04/women-tech-diversity-female-leaders" source="Guardian"]
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[bs-title]Failing to be flexible[/bs-title]
[bs-content]Amanda Fone, chief executive of F1 Recruitment, says to thrive, U.K. companies need to be more imaginative and do a better job of offering flexible working conditions. To prove her point, she cites an analysis of help-wanted ads in the Guardian showing that just 147 of roughly 12,500 jobs were part-time positions.[/bs-content][bs-link link="http://www.prweek.com/article/1393578/pr-industry-afford-generation-lost-women" source="PR Week"][bs-seperator]
[bs-title]Wishing women would run[/bs-title][bs-content]Female lawmakers at a meeting in Jordan highlighted the wide gender gap in global politics, noting that 80% of lawmakers and 95% of world leaders are men. To close the chasm, they urged more women to run for office and pressed for gender-equality laws.[/bs-content][bs-link link="https://www.yahoo.com/news/global-gender-gap-politics-wide-women-legislators-150306039.html" source="Yahoo"]
ASIA-PACIFIC
[bs-title]Segregation of the sexes[/bs-title]
[bs-content]In Australia, Perth has pink female-only parking, and the government has raised the idea of women-only cars in its public transport system. Such measures, in practice in certain parts of Europe, are an attempt to make women feel safer. But what do you think of such policies? Tell me your view.[/bs-content]
[bs-link link="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/04/women-only-train-carriages-what-a-ridiculously-regressive-idea" source="Guardian"]
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[bs-title]Back to bricks[/bs-title]
[bs-content]Falguni Nayar, CEO of online beauty retailer Nykaa, is looking to expand by launching 30 brick and mortar stores. Nayar, a former investment banker, will keep her website to tap the massive growth in India's online market.[/bs-content]
[bs-link link="http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/nykaa-to-raise-rs-80-cr-via-private-equity-and-hni-for-expansion-116050401071_1.html" source="Business Standard"]
THE AMERICAS
[bs-title]Interviewing Hillary's aides[/bs-title]
[bs-content]Aides of Hillary Clinton, including Huma Abedin, have been interviewed by the FBI regarding the use of a private email server to manage official State Department business. The probe is focusing on whether Clinton's use of such a server put classified data at risk.[/bs-content][bs-link link="http://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-interviews-hillary-clintons-aides-in-email-probe-1462491064" source="Wall Street Journal"]
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[bs-title]Girl power in the U.S. Senate[/bs-title]
[bs-content]Come November, nine states will have female Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate on their ballots. That's nearly a record.[/bs-content][bs-link link="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e1947ed2226749a2918c9b90aed51e52/senate-dems-field-large-roster-women-year-trump" source="AP"]
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[bs-title]A traditional FLOTUS?[/bs-title]
[bs-content]Melania Trump would likely be a traditional first lady if her husband wins the U.S. election. Here's why.[/bs-content]
[bs-link link="http://fortune.com/2016/05/05/melania-trump-first-lady-model/" source="Fortune"]
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[bs-title]Franchising estate sales[/bs-title]
[bs-content]Simone Kelly, founder of Grasons Company Estate Sale Services, hopes to build up her business with a nationwide franchise. Kelly, who had 11 franchises last year, predicts she will have 300 in the next four years. That would allow revenue, an estimated $920,000 this year, to surpass $9.8 million in 2020, she says.[/bs-content][bs-link link="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/business/smallbusiness/building-an-estate-sale-business-with-franchises.html?emc=edit_sb_20160504&nl=entrepreneurship&nlid=8449988" source="New York Times"]
IN BRIEF
[bs-title size="small"]Veteran political pundit Mary Matalin exits Republican party[/bs-title]
[bs-link link="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/us/mary-matalin-republican-strategist-and-pundit-changes-political-parties.html?hpw&rref=us&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0" source="New York Times"]
[bs-title size="small"]Is Katie Couric leaving Yahoo News?[/bs-title]
[bs-link link="http://fortune.com/2016/05/05/katie-couric-leaving-yahoo/?iid=leftrail" source="Fortune"]
[bs-title size="small"]Softball pitcher Monica Abbott signs historic $1m contract[/bs-title]
[bs-link link="http://espn.go.com/espnw/sports/article/15464430/pitcher-monica-abbott-signs-1-million-contract-national-pro-fastpitch-expansion-team" source="ESPN"]
[bs-title size="small"]Australian actress Margot Robbie of "Wolf of Wall Street" fame inks Calvin Klein deal[/bs-title]
[bs-link link="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/margot-robbie-to-front-calvin-klein-campaign-20160504-gommrj.html" source="Sydney Morning Herald"]
[bs-title size="small"]Vermont tops the list of best U.S. states for working mothers[/bs-title]
[bs-link link="http://www.glamour.com/story/the-best-states-for-working-moms-ranked" source="Glamour"]
[bs-title size="small"]The number of women in the music production biz is puny[/bs-title]
[bs-link link="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-producers-statistics_us_57113cebe4b0060ccda345be" source="Huffington Post"]
PARTING WORDS
[bs-quote link="http://mashable.com/2016/05/05/new-day-newspaper-shut-uk/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#QS7Z1ZAxa8qF" author="--Alison Phillips, editor of London's paper-only newspaper, the New Day, which will publish its last issue today"]To have not given this a go was to mean we were content to stand on the pavement and watch the decline of British national newspapers hurtle past us. But we weren't. And we still aren't.[/bs-quote]
