CBC’s Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week.

A new poll provides fresh numbers to illustrate what many exhausted working women have been reporting for decades — work-life balance isn’t exactly working out for them. The U.S. report that mirrors Canadian data suggests competing demands of work and home are part of the problem. 

Scientists say giving people hours, or even a few minutes, of early warning has grown in importance, as climate change makes natural disasters more common and dangerous than ever before.

A pair of iconic ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz and stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago sold for a winning bid of $28 million US ($40 million Cdn) at auction Saturday.