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Hiring Women is Good for Your Business

In 2014, women represented 47 percent of the total U.S. workforce, but 51 percent of the professional and technical workforce, according to the Department of Professional Employees, AFL-CIO. Recently, Melinda Gates, businesswoman and philanthropist, and wife of Bill Gates, discussed how and why women are good for business in her commentary, Why Hiring Women is Good for Business.