Employment Archives – Page 5 of 57

Wage Segregation Robs Women in Peak Earning Years

By Sharon Johnson ● Employment ● March 2, 2015

It could account for 7 percent to 10 percent of the wage gap but there’s so little data it’s hard to know. After 5,000 New York school guards won a big settlement last year the family of one 45-year-old mother of two suddenly had $7,000 more a year.

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McDonald’s Workers in Virginia Test Who’s Boss

By Miranda S. Spivack & Por Alison Bowen ● Employment ● February 4, 2015

Their case concerns civil-rights violations of low-wage workers, most of them women. It also tests whether–in line with a recent NLRB decision–the world’s largest hamburger chain can be taken to task as their employer.

‘Maid in Cambodia’ Highlights Skills, Better Wages

By Kristi Eaton & Por Alison Bowen ● Employment ● January 27, 2015

With no protections or rights for domestic workers in Cambodia, an expat here has started a job training center that requires employers to pay a decent wage, provide one day off a week, offer paid sick leave and holidays, basic health care and an eight-hour work day.

5 Speaking Habits That Weaken Women’s Leadership

By Judith Humphrey & Por Alison Bowen ● Arts & Culture ● January 25, 2015

These common patterns of talking make us sound unsure of ourselves and can stand in the way of being seen as confident leaders, says Judith Humphrey in this excerpt from the book “Taking the Stage.”

Congressional Women Tweet Out First Day

By Hajer Naili ● Employment ● January 6, 2015

The 114th U.S. Congress convened Tuesday, Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C., with 104 women, a record. Eighty-four women will serve in the House of Representatives and 20 in the Senate. There were 100 women in the last Congress. Here is a sampling of their Tweets.

When Glass Ceilings Chip, Get Ready for Break In

By Thea Rosenbaum & Por Alison Bowen ● Employment ● December 31, 2014

Germany’s youngest and first female stockbroker for the NYSE and later its only war correspondent in Vietnam talks about how it happened. Good contacts and good timing helped. But she also jumped at opportunities.

Women of the Tsunami Face Business Survival Test

By Swapna Majumdar ● Employment ● December 26, 2014

Female co-owners of the fish processing Sea Dot unit in Chennai, India, are struggling to keep their comeback enterprise going. After several good years, times have gotten tough. As the economy slackened, so did their sales.

San Francisco Aims To Close Pay Gap

By Robin Hindery ● Employment ● December 8, 2014

Supervisor David Campos introduced the legislation in the hope it will have national influence on income inequality policy. A source of San Francisco’s divide between “haves and have-nots,” he says, is the gap in how men and women are being paid.

7 Strategies for Stepping Up Our Political Women

By Rebecca Sive & Por Alison Bowen ● Employment ● December 2, 2014

Forget the downbeat aftermath of the midterms. Today’s climate is ideal for expanding women’s leadership. America’s millennial women will soon be among the largest political leadership blocs and we should engage them now.

Let’s Take Luck Out of the ‘Boss Lottery’

By Allison Stevens ● Employment ● October 16, 2014

Today–National Boss’s Day–belongs to that critical person in the life of a working mother who provides the flexibility we all need. The author found a pair of winning-ticket bosses, but U.S. working mothers should not have to rely on the luck of the draw.