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Political considerations also keep some teens from spending money at Wal-Mart and Urban Outfitters. They are picking up their ethical shopping tips online and from friends and family and they belong to an age group with $75 billion in discretionary spending.
Female workers at the big box mega retailer are pressing for more full-time jobs that pay at least $25,000, an amount research published June 2 by Demos finds could lower poverty, close the wage gap and benefit the overall economy.
Samina Baig, the first Pakistani woman to climb Mount Everest, is planning to climb to the summits of seven major peaks for women’s empowerment. In Lebanon, female refugees who escaped Syria’s conflict say they have been sexually harassed.
Four sisters won a court of appeals case to inherit their father’s property in Botswana this week. But author Sushmita Banerjee was killed in Afghanistan by suspected Taliban militants.
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Malawi President Joyce Banda (left) and Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at a women’s rights event.
The Supreme Court ruling on Wal-Mart spotlights the tough fight between female wage earners and employers. To balance our family checkbooks, we all need help from local politicians to pass the Paycheck Fairness bill.
Dr. Mila Means, a family practitioner, is planning to establish an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kan.
The High Court’s decision this week to disqualify about 1.5 million female Wal-Mart workers from bringing a class action gave mega corporations a big win over the workers. Three of the four dissenting justices were women.