Meeting Notes

Meeting Notes is a weekly feature. Here we will dish on tidbits, news, and important things we thinking Working Girls should know. So scroll down to hear what we think you should glean from this work week.

• Think Danica Patrick is the only professional woman in the race car driving industry? Think again. Read this article to learn more about the women of NASCAR. [Yahoo Sports]

• According to Elizabeth Cashdan, a professor at the University of Utah, women who work release more hormones that help them become physically stronger so they can deal with the stress of their jobs. So if I work more you get skinnier? 12-hour workday here I come! [The Times of India]

• Celebrate Black History Month by visiting The Frisky each Monday of the month to see the new notable African-American woman's work and achievements they have featured. Some women who have already been featured are Zora Neale Hurston, Regina Anderson, and Lucy Parsons. [The Frisky]

• This site cracks me up. Sick of pointless meetings? Visit MEETorDIE, a website that puts a dollar sign on the time left in the board room. Hour meeting on email approval procedures? You just lost $50,000 of production time for the company. [Urban Daddy]