Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases. From category to category, women account for the
majority of the purchasing decisions. Eighty percent of the decision-
making consumers are treated as a marginalized minority by most sales,
marketing, and advertising efforts," says Joanne Thomas Yaccato, M2W presenter
and author of The 80% Minority.m2w.

About Scholastic
Scholastic Corporation (Nasdaq: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher and
distributor of children's books and a leader in educational technology.

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Women's Group and M2W keynote speaker.

Scholastic Library Publishing Debuts Encyclopedia Latina: History Culture and Society in the United States

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culture, from burritos and pop music to literature and education.

The discipline began as an academic field in the 1970s with connections to popular feminist movements in the 1960s.

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Attendees will learn why selling to women is not the same thing as simply
selling to the consumer, and why increasing sales in the lucrative women 's
market will be critical to the fiscal future of almost any consumer brand. Encyclopedia Latina examines the roles of Latinos
in U. Grolier publishes encyclopedias and is best known for the brands
Encyclopedia Americana(R) and The New Book of Knowledge(R).

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Called "the czar of Latino culture in the
United States" by The New York Times, Stavans is the author of several
best-selling books on Latino culture and Spanish language.S. life. The Company distributes its products and services through a
variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs,
school-based book fairs , and school-based and direct-to-home continuity
programs; retail stores, schools, libraries and television networks; and the
Company's Internet site, http://www.

It considers the ways class, race, ethnicity , and age shape the female experience.

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, Marketing Executives from around
the globe will convene at the Chicago Cultural Center, April 18 + 19 to attend
M2W-The Marketing to Women Conference and hear from business experts on the
importance of building share in the largely overlooked, but increasingly
dominant women's market.
Key to winning with women is understanding how and why they shop . With more than 40 million Hispanics living in the United States,
Latinos are the largest minority group, representing the largest and fastest
growing minority youth population.
Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products
for use in school and at home, including children's books, magazines,
technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming , film,
videos and toys.

Women's Studies brings to light valuable information about women in the family, at work, in the arts, in politics, and in the sciences--information that traditional scholarship has overlooked.

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Scholastic Library Publishing creates a multitude of products, both in
print and online, for the school and public library market under the imprints
of Grolier(R), Children's Press(R), Franklin Watts(R), and Grolier Online(TM).

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M2W is produced by PME Enterprises, Hartford, CT.

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Ilan Stavans, the Lewis -Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino
Culture at Amherst College and host of PBS' La Plaza: Conversations with Ilan
Stavans, served as editor in chief. "The new Encyclopedia Latina reflects the
diversity of the students we serve and will be in important addition to school
and public library collections.

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To develop Encyclopedia Latina, Stavans assembled a who's-who editorial
advisory board of such prominent Latino figures as Ray Suarez of PBS' The
NewsHour; Jorge Ramos of Univision; Richard Delgado, author of The Latino/a
Condition: A Critical Reader, The Coming Race War, and Critical Race Theory;
and the
encyclopedia canvasses the widespread influence that Latinos have left in
every facet of U. society, from baseball to politics, and discusses Latino influences on
U.S.
"For eight decades, Scholastic has inspired young people from all walks of
life with a love of learning and books," comments Greg Worrell, president of
Scholastic Library Publishing .com.

Women's Studies explores the relationship between cultural definitions of feminine behavior and the realities of women's lives.

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Children's Press offers primarily non-fiction series for elementary and middle
schools, while Franklin Watts focuses on non-fiction for the high school
market.

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Moreover, women today are not just supporting businesses from the checkout
line, they are running them from the boardroom," explains Grant Schneider, VP
with Time Inc. M2W
Presenting Sponsor, Frank About Women, recently completed the second wave of a
nationally representative study among almost 1400 women. And, although nearly one-in-five children
in America is Hispanic, no one has documented the impact that Latinos have had
on the United States until now.

Women's Studies examines the ways in which gender -- our notions of masculinity and femininity -- is socially and culturally constructed rather than determined by biology alone.

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Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that critically examines women's roles, achievements, and experiences, both historically and cross-culturally.

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M2W is presented by Frank About Women. It is sponsored by Time Inc . First-ever comprehensive reference to chronicle
Latino contributions to United States history and culture

NEW YORK, Scholastic Library Publishing, a
division of Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media
company, today announces the release of Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture
and Society in the United States, the first interdisciplinary reference book
to chronicle Latino contributions to art, culture and commerce in the United
States .

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"Women represent the most diverse,
dynamic and economically powerful force in today's consumer marketplace.
"Our research shows that women consumers are not taken seriously, purely
on the basis of their gender. It's a paradox. The telling results
of this research will be shared with attendees of M2W by Stephanie Ouyoumijian
from Frank About Women in the session titled Female Retail Rituals: Shopping
Mindsets + Behavior.

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Women's Group, Lincoln Financial Group, Marketing To Women Newsletter, Kimpton
Hotels + Restaurants, Paramount Market Publishing, The TrendSight Group and
Fast Company. Please visit
http://www. Grolier Online is
a self-contained, non-commercial electronic gateway offering thousands of
resources for student research, including the Encyclopedia Americana Online,
The New Book of Knowledge Online and the Spanish language encyclopedia Cumbre
en linea (TM) -- serving more than 18 million students and teachers.

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In its four volumes, 650 entries, 2000 pages and 1.

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HARTFORD, Conn. American women spend
roughly 6 trillion annually.

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Encyclopedia Latina explores every aspect of Latino life in America from a
myriad of perspectives, spanning the arts, media, cuisine, government and
politics, science and technology , business, health, and sports, among others.

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Marketing Experts Share Insights on Increasing Sales By Capturing the Powerful Women's Market

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Uniting all Women's Studies inquiry is the effort to understand and explain the inequality between men and women and to envision change.

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