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More than 100 U.S. military nurses were stationed at base hospitals in the Philippines on Dec. 7, 1941. As the U.S. entered the war, Frances Nash and Peggy Nash faced deluges of wounded, says Mary Cronk Farrell in this excerpt from “Pure Grit.”
The gradual downtrend in U.S. workforce participation by women with children suggests an inevitable disconnect between newborns and professional performance. But what if employers treated women with newborns like this?
A poll of India’s voters in the historic election indicated that 90 percent believe that combatting violence against women should be a priority. Also this week, Iraq may approve a law permitting marriage as early as age 9 with parental consent.
The workshops get young women who face their first jobs to think seriously about salaries. The big-picture focus is on narrowing a gender wage gap that last year left U.S. women–statistically speaking–working until April 8 of this year, Equal Pay Day, to catch up with men.
Parenting and pre-K politics are getting more co-ed but the stark reality is that the people who are helping out in the homes, day care centers and early-education classrooms are almost entirely female. Their taken-for-granted status is getting glaring.
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.
Sen. Gillibrand and Rep. DeLauro recently introduced a bill that could end the intolerable choices so many working families face when a baby is born or a family member falls ill. Twelve weeks of partially paid leave would help untold numbers of women keep their jobs.
The new wage and overtime protections don’t take effect for another year but the government has begun sorting out what it means, to whom. Staffing agencies are most affected but private employers should also keep records.
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Personality risk factors, such as worrying and retreating under stress, can undermine an otherwise strong female manager or executive. Fortunately, there are ways to curb this and help women enjoy their proven strengths.
To help more women enter the better-paying managerial jobs in the booming maritime logistics hub, two trailblazers–one a highway engineer, the other a supply-chain manager–aim to make their trade institute a model of gender balance for the island nation.