Employment Archives – Page 55 of 56

Scholars Contrast Childhood’s Rhetoric, Reality

By Barbara Raab ● Employment ● October 26, 2000

They claim treatment of kids is hypocritical. We say all kids need care, protection and education, but kids who commit crimes are prosecuted as adults, and kids who become parents are said to be responsible for most of the nation’s social problems.

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Women Journalists Honored for Courage Under Fire

By Victoria Graham ● Arts & Culture ● October 11, 2000

Awards for courageous journalism were presented to an editor in Kyrgyzstan, a broadcaster in Burundi, an American correspondent who dodged bullets in the West Bank, Kosovo and other hot spots and a senior diplomatic correspondent and pioneer.

Women-Owned Businesses Short-Changed by Lenders

By Elizabeth Randolph ● Employment ● October 5, 2000

After years of giving women-owned businesses short shrift when it came to credit, lenders are beginning to recognize the importance of their economic contributions, to evaluate their credit flexibly and to offer.

Missouri Counties Bank Money Intended for Shelters

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● October 2, 2000

Working Women Still Running Hard To Stay in Place

By Cindy Richards ● Employment ● September 4, 2000

In the best of times, women still don’t fare as well financially as men, not by a long shot–and this hot economy proves it. True, women’s wages have risen during the past two years, but they have only recovered ground lost in the past 20.

Uppity Lady Labor Leader Leads Immigrants to Win

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Employment ● August 14, 2000

Just as old time immigrants from Europe energized the struggling American labor movement last century, today’s new immigrants, whether from Somalia or Malaysia, are increasingly important, wooed by labor and readily galvanized.

Rape Tore the Fabric of Bosnian Families, Society

By Brenda Smiley ● Crime & Law ● August 11, 2000

A federal jury awarded $745 million in damages to 11 Bosnian women who testified about the use of systematic rape as a calculated crime of war. They almost certainly won’t collect, but they had the bleak satisfaction of telling the world about evil.

California’s Political Women Are Ready for Prime Time

By Chris Lombardi ● Employment ● August 7, 2000

The California delegation is brimming with powerful women lawmakers who will preside over the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in a way their Republican sisters would envy.

Paid Parental Leave: An Idea Whose Time Is Coming

By Glenda Crank Holste ● Employment ● July 26, 2000

Paid parental leave has been the stuff of progressive dreams. Now, the thinking, researching and concrete planning are underway. Minnesota is one innovative planner and Massachusetts could enact a plan this year.

Politics Turns Young Women Off; Issues Excite Them

By Deborah Mesce ● Employment ● July 25, 2000

High school seniors at Girls Nation heard that President Kennedy told a similar group 40 years ago that they would make great First Ladies, but that none could be President. The question now: When will one of them decide that she can?