Employment Archives – Page 54 of 57

Wife Is Boss in New Business Model for Couples

By Laura Koss-Feder ● Employment ● June 5, 2001

Men increasingly are joining their entrepreneur wives in business and reporting to them. It’s estimated that twice as many men report to their higher-ranking wives today as they did five years ago–and their marriages are notable for their mutual respect.

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Anti-Feminist Ad Campaign Launched on Campus

By Vera Haller ● Employment ● May 31, 2001

The conservative Independent Women’s Forum, given new life with the Republican victory, has launched a national “Take Back the Campus” campaign, buying advertisements in campus newspapers to challenge what it calls feminist myths.

Oregon to Women on Welfare: Dumpster Dive

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● May 5, 2001

Bush Budget Cuts Could Hurt Small Businesses

By Priscilla Y. Huff ● Crime & Law ● April 15, 2001

President Bush’s proposed budget outline contains funding cuts that could impede the growth of small businesses that have been fostered by the SBA’s Small Business Development Centers and Women’s Business Centers located around the country.

Betty ‘The Ugly’ Reveals a Truth About Beauty

By Margarita Martinez ● Employment ● April 2, 2001

Colombia, obsessed with physical beauty, is also obsessed with a soap opera starring an unattractive financial whiz who repeatedly saves her inept boss from ruin. Viewers also are forced to take a hard look in the mirror and think about true beauty.

Women Innovators Remaking Sports Apparel Market

By Melynda Bissmeyer ● Employment ● February 13, 2001

Women have breasts, hips and buying power. But it’s taken a long time for the makers of men’s and unisex outdoor gear to accommodate women’s needs for shorter sleeves, softer bicycle seats and easier ways to answer a call of nature.

Intense Efforts to End Wage Gap Underway

By Sarah Stewart Taylor ● Employment ● February 12, 2001

For working families, equal pay for equal work would put an average of $4,000 a year back into their pocketbooks, nearly three times more than the proposed $1.3 trillion tax cut, claims the Center for Policy Alternatives.

Internet Economy Mimics Old-Style Pay Inequities

By Laura Carr ● Employment ● January 16, 2001

Like their brethren, women workers in the Internet economy are making the big bucks and working the long hours. Yet, they are making roughly 25 percent less while working only slightly fewer hours. Ring a bell?

Women in Top Management a Key to Success

By Nancy Schaadt ● Employment ● January 4, 2001

Diversity in top management often signals the success of initial public offerings. Companies with single-gender and monochromatic management are snubbed by today’s business school grads, whether they are looking for a job or an investment.

Women’s E-Businesses Are Alive and Thriving

By Priscilla Y. Huff ● Employment ● December 26, 2000

At a time when the U.S. economy is slowing and many highly touted dot-com companies are folding, women-owned dotcoms are holding up remarkably well, even flourishing. Ironically, one factor may be their lack of access to investors and banks.