Employment Archives – Page 6 of 57

Subminimum Wage Plus Tips Don’t Add up to a Living

By Melissa Josephs ● Employment ● October 14, 2014

In my own experience, tips were based on how much you flirted or laughed at crude or sexist jokes. That’s no way to earn a living and it breeds a culture of harassment flagged by the “Glass Floor” study released last week.

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Dalit Stops Cleaning Dry Toilets, Becomes Leader

By Swapna Majumdar ● Employment ● October 6, 2014

Choti Bai has left the dehumanizing work behind and is helping other Dalit women follow her lead. Manual scavenging is illegal in India but activists estimate that over a million people, mostly women, are still caught in it.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Scrutinizes Court’s Gender Rulings

By Juhie Bhatia ● Crime & Law ● September 12, 2014

The 81-year-old, known to her online fans as the Notorious R.B.G., is the oldest member of the court, but she says she’s not planning on going away any time soon. Here are some of her thoughts from a New York women’s health gathering earlier this week.

Report Urges U.K. Parties to Fix a Women Shortage

By WeNews Staff ● Employment ● August 28, 2014

The U.K. has sunk to 65th place in global rankings of women’s political representation. This report offers new annual data to explain the decline and urges parties to field more women in strategic races in 2015.

Widow Joins All-Male Ranks as Railroad Porter

By Swapna Majumdar ● Employment ● August 25, 2014

Defying extremely rigid gender-based traditions, a 32-year-old Rajasthan widow left her village and broke into the all-male ranks of railway porters in the capital city of Jaipur. Now she’s planning a better life for her children.

Domestic Workers’ Champ Envisions Win-Win Future

By Elizabeth Kuhr ● Employment ● August 8, 2014

After Massachusetts’ passage of a domestic workers’ bill of rights, Ai-jen Poo sees “more states on the horizon.” She’s also looking to build support for subsidies and tax breaks to help families pay for better-trained caregivers.

McDonald’s Workers Wait for Labor Rule Effects

By Elizabeth Kuhr ● Employment ● August 7, 2014

Before the female-dominated workforce of the fast food chain can press their case, judges and courts must address the complaints. “It’s only the first step in a long legal process,” says a woman’s rights advocate.

When You Shop, Try to Leave Out All the Slavery

By Diana Mao ● Employment ● April 24, 2014

As consumers, we shouldn’t need tragedies like last year’s factory collapse in Bangladesh to wake us up and realize that what we buy matters. Nomi, the group I cofounded, helps you join the positive ripple effect of women leaving sex traffic and forging better lives.

‘Maternal Wall’ Blocks Careers of Working Moms

By Sharon Meers & Joanna Strober ● Employment ● March 1, 2014

It’s not new moms’ imaginations, they often are treated differently after returning to work, say Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober in this excerpt from “Getting to 50/50.” One big feature of postnatal hazing is the question, “are you still committed?”

Bamboo Ceiling Is Holding Down Asia-Pacific

By Kirti Lad ● Arts & Culture ● January 26, 2014

The business community in Asia-Pacific has many reasons to ratchet up its low numbers of women on corporate boards. Candidates are out there and available to fill the pipeline and the posts. They just need training, mentoring, networking and sponsors to become more visible.