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‘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.

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Paid Leave Set for Political Boost in SOTU Tonight

By Hajer Naili ● Politics ● January 20, 2015

“We have no illusion that it will pass in the next two years,” Ellen Bravo, a leading advocate of paid leave, said Tuesday before the president’s speech. “But what we will see is growing support and growing pressures on those who block it.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pregnancy Requests Put Women in the Firing Line

By Crystal Lewis ● Crime & Law ● August 12, 2014

Women of color and those earning low wages are least likely to be accommodated during their pregnancies. It’s also acute for women in traditionally male-dominated industries. “I wanted to work,” says a music conductor who asked for a stool while she worked under hot lights.