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Leaders Say Managing Kids Prepared Them to Be Boss

By Mary Meier ● Employment ● October 16, 2001

A new study finds that many successful women leaders compare their work to mothering. The author says this is because women are becoming more comfortable with being in charge.

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Women at Ground Zero: Rescuers, Rebuilders

By Maya Dollarhide ● Arts & Culture ● October 14, 2001

This is the first in a series on the women toiling at Ground Zero in the ashes of the World Trade Center. The women profiled are helping the city recover and rebuild–police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, construction workers. They are us.

Women’s Salaries in Life Sciences One-Third Less

By Martha Downs ● Arts & Culture ● October 12, 2001

A major salary survey of professionals in the life sciences reveals that wage gaps start out small, but inequities between genders accumulate over a long career resulting in deep divides. Typically, men in the field earn one-third more than women.

Median Gross Salaries for Academics and Non-Academics

By Por WeNews Staff & no-author ● Employment ● October 11, 2001

Provided by the the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Equal Pay Victory Is Sweet, at Last, for Charwomen

By Anne Driscoll ● Crime & Law ● September 9, 2001

The federal Equal Pay Act has been on the books for nearly 40 years, but it is little known and underutilized. Still, it has great potential to redress wage discrimination because it says comparable work and responsibility require equal pay.

Bunch Pushes Racism Conference to Include Sexism

By Alysia Tate ● Arts & Culture ● September 6, 2001

The international conference on racism has largely overlooked sexism and how the intersection of racism with gender bias can be doubly debilitating for women of color around the world. A handful of women reminded world leaders not to ignore gender.

African American Women Predominate in Support Jobs

By Deborah L. Rouse ● Employment ● September 4, 2001

African American women tend to be clustered in support jobs. Racial and gender discrimination, single parenthood, supply and demand, expectations and other factors apparently combine to hinder African American women’s professional growth.

West Virginia Gives $100 Welfare Marriage Bonus

By Dan LeRoy ● Employment ● August 14, 2001

West Virginia is the only state offering a cash marriage incentive to couples getting welfare benefits: $100 a month to 1,633 couples. Advocates say it’s working, experts say the jury is out, and critics say it may keep poor women in abusive homes.

Child Care Providers Assert Work Undervalued

By Michelle Kennedy ● Employment ● August 9, 2001

Overworked and underpaid, with few if any benefits, those who take care of the little ones while parents are employed elsewhere are beginning to claim they have a right to their own piece of the American economic pie.

Bush’s Anti-Family Planning Agenda Is Showing

By Por Alison Bowen ● Commentary ● August 8, 2001

The recent debate over the effectiveness of condoms reflects an ominous pattern, beginning with the reinstatement last January of the Global Gag Rule, that is emerging from the Bush Administration.