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Changes working women would like to see in next 25 years
When Padmaja Narsipur decided to return to fulltime corporate life in Bengaluru after a hiatus to take care of her three young children, she came up against a wall. While the master's degree holder in computer science had had a thriving…
US State will receive up to $201.9 million from the US Treasury Department | New
The US Department of the Treasury recently announced the approval of North Carolina's request for funding…
Book review of Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 by Elisabeth…
Placeholder while article actions loadA confession: A few pages into historian Elisabeth Griffith's book, I felt the weariness of a lifelong feminist. Who needs to read this encyclopedic account of the last 100 years of women's fight for…
Lisa Kudrow on the lack of diversity in the cast of Friends
David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow and Matt LeBlancPhoto: Getty ImagesAh, Friends. For some, it's the greatest show of all time. For others, it's just Office for geriatric millennials who!-->!-->…
One Year of Taliban Takeover: Missing Afghan Labor Women | Taliban News
It has been a year since Masuda Samar, 43, a senior civil servant in an Afghan ministry, walked into her office.
On August 15 last year, she came home early from work to be with her family after learning that the then Afghan president had…
Forspoken Trailer Shows How Marvel Ruined Modern Media
Against my better judgment, I'm excited for Forspoken. I'm not sure it'll be that good, but with its much healthier January release window and funky gameplay, I'm on board. I expect to love it the same way I love Agents of Mayhem or…
Wall Street is dropping retired women
Comment this storyCommentWhen it comes to a comfortable retirement, women in the United States hold all the cards. New efforts to begin to change that are laudable, yet they still miss the mark because they are shaped by decades of…
City of Wilmington ARPA Funds Help Local Businesses Get Loans for Startup Expansion
August 9, 2022
Mayor Mike Purzycki said today that the City of Wilmington is pleased to have assisted Cornerstone West CDC and its partners with ARPA funding so they can step up their efforts to…
Women in STEM – closing the gender gap, closing the skills gap
It is a universally recognized truth that women and girls seeking to advance their STEM education have long faced enormous challenges in a traditionally male-dominated field.
And while the past few decades have seen the global community…
Queen forced to take ‘small break from summer vacation’ with forced return to London |…
The Queen is currently on vacation at Balmoral, the Royal Family's traditional summer residence. The 96-year-old usually spends the whole summer, from July to early October, at her Scottish residence, but it will be a little different this…
Materna Medical Secures $20 Million Investment Led by InnovaHealth Partners
Materna Medical disrupts a $6 billion market in the most common pelvic conditions in women ... Face
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Materna Medical (Materna), a leading manufacturer of innovative medical devices in the United States, today…
NCAA hoops leagues grapple with unequal salaries for female umpires
THE NCAA earned praise last year when it agreed to pay the referees of its men's and women's basketball tournaments fairly. The gesture costs only about $100,000, a tiny fraction of the roughly $900 million the networks pay each year…
Tiff Stevenson / Seann Walsh / Rosie Holt
She has ADHD, or rather she diagnosed herself with it after failing to answer a bunch of online surveys (a symptom, apparently), and decided she had a sexy brain. Sexy as mysterious - you know, the way women are meant to be.Much of it is…
Woman seen bloodied and screaming in NJ tractor-trailer found safe after 26 hours of search
The search for a woman who was seen bleeding from the face and screaming for help in a white tractor-trailer cab in New Jersey has been found safe after a 26-hour manhunt, police say Thursday evening. A search was launched on Wednesday…
The revival of the women’s Tour de France is a reminder that “the fight for equality is…
Former professional cyclist and filmmaker Catherine Bertina is cautious in choosing how to describe the Tour de France Women 2022, which concluded on Sunday with the Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten cruise to victory."Too many…
Girlboss, gaslight, gatekeep: A history book challenges assumptions and reveals the racist…
BOOK REVIEW: “The Problem with White Women: A Counter-History of Feminism” By Kyla Schuller | 2021 | Hardcover, $30 | Non-fiction, history | Available at the Seattle Public Library
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Tinder’s first female CEO after less than a year
New Match Group CEO Bernard Kim announced the departure of Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg on Tuesday in a letter to shareholders outlining his "observations" after 62 days on the job. “Our goal is to inspire our brands to optimize everything we…
The Perils of Declining Population in the Nation of Sheikh Hasina
Despite Mahatma Gandhi's intervention, more than 5,000 Hindus were massacred, thousands of Hindu women were raped and an equal number of people were forcibly converted to Islam in Noakhali district (in present-day Bangladesh) in 1946.…
New Mississippi Equal Pay for Equal Work Law
By Becky Gillette
Contains vulnerabilities that affect some
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In April, Mississippi became the latest state in the nation to pass pay equity legislation to require employers to pay the same wages to women as…
Women in League Round Wrap – Sharks celebrate in style
This was Round 16 of the NRL Women in League with the theme 'Play Your Part' which is exactly what the Sharks did to celebrate the week and the contribution of women in the NRL and throughout the rugby league match.
Culminating with a big…
Discover Hosts Grand Opening of Chatham Customer Service Center and Shine Bright® Community Center
RIVERWOODS, Illinois--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Discover today hosted the grand opening of its Chatham and Shine Bright Customer Service Center® Chicago South Side Community Center. Joined by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, 6e Ward Alderman Roderick…
German Chancellor calls for equal pay for footballers in the country
Germany lost the final of the Women's European Championship 2-1 against England. Daniela Porcelli/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet FA National Director Oliver Bierhoff to make the case for equal pay for…
Neha Bhasin: I used to wear leather pants at LSR, and I was always accepted
Neha Bhasin may be based in Mumbai now, but memories of the capital are still close to the heart of this Delhi-born singer. On a recent trip to the city, she revisited the back streets of Defense Colony and became nostalgic for South…
‘It’s only going up’: Gabby Logan on the Lionesses and the rise of women’s…
It wasn't until Alessia Russo's already legendary third goal in England's 4-0 semi-final defeat to Sweden on Tuesday that Gabby Logan dared to believe 'we have a final on our hands'.The presenter, the BBC's face of Euro 2022, told the…
Student loan forgiveness could be on the way for millions of Americans
WASHINGTON (KACB) -- President Joe Biden is expected to make a decision on canceling student loans in the coming weeks.Politico reports that the president plans to use executive action to provide up to $10,000 in debt relief per borrower to…
Euros 2022: female footballers’ salaries, equal pay and prize money
We take a look at how much female footballers are paid after the Women's Euro 2022 final. England women face Germany in the final of the Women's Euro 2022 this Sunday at Wembley Stadium. The London venue is expected to sell out for the…
Omca’s ‘Hella Feminist’ exhibition explores the complexity of contemporary…
By JL Odom
Equality, reproductive rights, division of labor, women's health, racial justice, LGBTQIA+ rights, violence against women: contemporary feminism embraces these issues and more. Today, feminism undoubtedly covers a…
Hepsiburada becomes a signatory to the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles
ISTANBUL, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading (d/b/a "Hepsiburada") (NASDAQ: HEPS), a leading Turkish e-commerce platform (hereinafter referred to as "Hepsiburada" or the "Company") ), today…
When Chileans go to the polls on September 4 to vote for a new constitution, it could mean the dawn…
When Chileans go to the polls on September 4 to vote for a new constitution, it could mean the dawn of a new era for the Andean state. It all started three years ago with a massive social revolt. In the fall of 2019, people took to the…
GlobeSt. Women of Influence Conference kicks off
Welcome to this year's Women of Influence Conference here at Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley in Park City, Utah. This year's event brought together over 300 of the most influential women in real estate and in the form of a truly national…
The community comes together to save The Grid in Mesa
By ELLIOTT POLAKOFF
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MESA, Arizon (KPHO, KTVK) — The Grid is a Mesa destination for gamers, music lovers, and foodies. But the pandemic has taken a toll on the popular players' pub,…
A Guide to Divorce and Retirement for Lesbians
Same-sex marriages are on the rise, as are same-sex divorces, especially lesbian divorces. Gay divorces rose 40.4% from 2019 to 2020, to 1,154, and the vast majority, 71.3%, were lesbian divorces, comprehensive study finds study of England!-->…
The Five Most Important Ten-Year Trends in College Majors
Majors in health professions and STEM fields are on the rise, while humanities, education and social ... sciences are declining in the last ten years of college graduates.
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Although there has been a recent…
Woman fired after revealing salary on TikTok
TikToker Lexi Larson just landed her dream tech job when she decided to be transparent with her new salary on TikTok. Just six weeks after starting her new job, she was fired for creating the social media post.Last month, Larson revealed…
Nikki Glaser in Good Clean Filth Special, FBoy Island, Joe Rogan – The Hollywood Reporter
Moments in Nikki Glaser's latest comedy special, Good clean dirt, she poses a hypothesis to her audience: If you had to perform oral sex on one of your parents, who would it be? It's one of the most innocent tracks of the hour,…
Hepsiburada appoints Nilhan Onal as new CEO from January 1, 2023
ISTANBUL, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- D-MARKET Electronic Services & Trading (d/b/a "Hepsiburada") (NASDAQ: HEPS), a leading Turkish e-commerce platform (hereinafter referred to as "Hepsiburada" or the "Company") ), today…
Over 7,000 new domestic workers seen in 2022; 63% of workers are Filipino – ARAB TIMES
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KUWAIT CITY, July 21: The issue of domestic workers repeatedly blows hot and cold and involves the government, the National Assembly…
A show stopper is at the heart of this winning exhibition: Dulwich Gallery’s Reframed –…
Cropped: The woman at the windowDulwich Photo Gallery, until September 3Thematic exhibits related to particular images in museum collections tend to be more interesting to museum curators than to the general public. But with Cropped: The!-->!-->…
US Navy’s Blue Angels display team gets first female jet pilot
The US Navy's elite Blue Angels display team has named its first female jet pilot.
Navy Lt. Amanda Lee will join the pilots for the 2023 season of the flight…
EXCLUSIVE Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo is in talks to sell its Myanmar unit –…
People sit at a bus station with an Ooredoo advertisement while waiting for a bus in Yangon, August 1, 2014. REUTERS/Soe Zeya TunJoin now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterSINGAPORE, July 20 (Reuters) - Qatari telecoms company…
A survey reveals that 54.7% of wages in the United States have not kept up with inflation; Men are…
The results indicate that Americans earn less in relative terms than before the pandemic; Women worse off than menNEW YORK, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey by SophisticatedInvestor.com of 3,002 American adults found that…
Negotiating equality does not mean being the same
Same as you
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Women have been negotiating for some time for public, private and professional equality. While progress has undoubtedly been made, the reality is that women still earn less…
Monday Afternoon Update – Florida Trend
Lawmakers seek to revive vetoed bills
Lawmakers faced a Friday deadline to file applications to tap into a new $80 million pot of money, called Local Support Grants, included in the state budget that came into effect.!-->!-->…
Workers demand decent wages
LAHORE: Workers must be paid a fair wage for the work they do. A lot of workers don't understand that. They demand a salary in which they can eat, pay bills and rent in addition to educating their children.
Recently two labor…
88% of migrant women do not obtain any work contract
Parul Begum (name changed), a single mother of two, thought she had taken a break when she received an offer to work as a domestic helper in Qatar for a monthly salary of Tk 40,000.
In May 2017, she left for Qatar, without a work…
DA candidates strengthen campaign supporters; sheriff candidates clash over inmates | Local News
Editor's Note: The Berkshire Eagle will bring readers candidate and campaign updates ahead of the September…
What is a TERF and why is it important in today’s political climate?
After several years of behind-the-scenes battles, largely ignored by politicians and the media who have firmly turned a blind eye to the fact that there is a left-wing feminist critique of “gender identity,” TERFs have finally entered the…
‘Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons’ explores the dark struggles of a fashion…
Written by Lea Dolan, CNNTo keep you up to date, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for books to read, movies to watch, podcasts and music to listen to.The cultural phenomenon that Victoria's Secret was before 2020, with…
Crossroads Impact Corp 2022 Fi
DALLAS, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crossroads Impact Corp (OTCQX: CRSS) ("Crossroads" or the "Company"), a holding company focused on investing in businesses that promote economic vitality and community development, has reported…
Kate Hudson’s net worth and salary, broken down
Kate Hudson is truly a national treasure. In case you doesn't know, his mother is iconic actor Goldie Hawn, who rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan and Martin's laughter before receiving the Oscar *and* the Golden Globe…
Garry Trudeau dives into NFTs, selling ‘Doonesbury’ tapes at auction
Comment this storyCommentNFTs still represented a strange new world for many last year, when Jason Chatfield decided to convene an online forum to answer the question: with crypto art selling for millions, did blockchain hold promise for…
Why this Mumbai female entrepreneur is betting big on Indian waterways
A road trip from Mumbai to Mandwa, a port village nearly 100 km away, can take around three hours or more, depending on traffic. But what if the travel time is reduced to one hour and the distance to only 19 km?M2M ferries, Maharashtra's…
Gary Lineker becomes only BBC on-air talent to earn over £1million
Gary Lineker is the BBC's highest-earning on-air talent for the fifth year running and the only name to earn more than £1million a year, according to new figures.The 61-year-old pundit and former footballer was paid between £1,350,000 and…
How you are helping Oxfam fight climate change
You've been helping Oxfam fight climate change for years, and the work has only just begun.
Oxfam has fought for decades to protect the rights and livelihoods of those most affected by the climate crisis,…
Dentons raises a cup of tea to women lawyers at the commercial bar
DENTONS, the world's largest law firm, recognizes that there are still hurdles to overcome for women working at the Commercial Bar in Scotland - and as a firm they are fully committed to working to drive the…
3 “Strong Buy” stocks that are too cheap to ignore
Entering the second half of the year, market sentiment is becoming clearer. First, there is a feeling that the 1H collapse may be bottoming out – or at least plateauing and pausing before further declines. Second, there is a growing…
“Women CEOs and Chairs of Boards are Key Allies in Women’s Economic Empowerment” | The…
As part of its commitment to expand partnerships with the private sector, the UN Women Country Office in Nigeria hosted a high-level roundtable with female CEOs and Board Chairs. It aims to explore the…
Marin relies on state law abolishing race pacts
A new state law requiring the removal of language prohibiting people of color from buying residences has drawn particular attention to Marin, who is known for her history of racial discrimination in housing.
AB 1466 went into effect July 1…
Curfews, dress codes, surveillance: Restrictions on women in hostels reflect deep-rooted gender…
Curfews, dress codes and constant surveillance – the all-too-common themes that come up when interacting with female students who have lived in an all-girls hostel during their college years. In 2016, two students have been fired from VIT…
Women’s team becomes part of Hibernian FC
Hibernian FC is delighted to announce that Hibernian Women has officially come under the ownership of The Football Club.
This means Executive Chairman Ronald J Gordon has completed the acquisition of Hibernian Women, which…
How to Improve Small Business Cash Flow
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The past few years have been tough for America's 32.5 million small businesses, according to the US Small Business Administration (SBA). They have faced great challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, labor shortages and…
Review of the film Robocop: totalitarian technocolonial regime or, more correctly, a surveillance…
Otherness is an old concept experienced differently by different people around the world. This is undoubtedly a discriminatory practice that continues to divide humanity forever. There are different types of otherness, such as those…
The Guardian announces new special-edition women’s football podcast and wider multimedia…
The tournament kicks off on Wednesday July 6, and The Guardian will mark the occasion with extensive coverage in audio, digital and print formats, which will also feature branded content sponsored by Visa. In audio, The Guardian's…
Nomura: Manipal’s Pais seeks to raise $500m, talks with Barclays, Deutsche, DBS, Nomura &…
Manipal hospital developers, the Pai family, are in talks with a group of banks led by Barclays to raise $400-500 million (₹3,158-3,948 crore), as they seek to buy out half of the Shares held by U.S. private equity investor TPG Capitale of…
Top tips to help you close the gender pension gap
Part-time work, lower wages and absences from the labor market are the main contributors to the gender pension gap.
Women might start their careers just as likely to contribute to a pension as their male colleagues, but…
Book Review: Convenience Store Woman By Sayaka Murata
Woman convenience store is a Japanese novel by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. The story, a stellar tale of womanhood, success, and society, revolves around Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old woman who works at a…
Single-sex toilets will be mandatory in new public buildings | Planning policy
New offices, schools, hospitals and entertainment venues will be required to have separate toilets for men and women, government sources have confirmed, in a bid to limit the single installation of gender-neutral facilities.Ministers will…
Title IX opened up an unexpected career path for workout icon Flanagan
Don Flanagan is seen in a portrait photo taken recently at his home in Albuuqerque Foothills. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal)
Don Flanagan recalls his reaction when Title IX made high school women's basketball part of the…
Dark Forces Are Gathering We Seem Powerless To Stop, Says JUDY FINNIGAN | Richard and Judy |…
It seems like our pleasant western world is changing, very suddenly, for the worse.Now, in America, the federal consensus on abortion, still fraught with conflict, has shifted so that women will no longer have the constitutional right to…
Mark Bennett: Diminutive Myra Janco Daniels stood tall in business | News columns
Imagine a 24-year-old woman starting an advertising agency in downtown…
Taliban leader pardons members of former administration in rare public appearance
Arab Americans lose major benefits from 'discriminatory' exclusion from US census
CHICAGO: According to Samer Khalaf, National Chairman of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee.
During an interview on The Ray Hanania…
Wilfred Johnson’s godmother receives government salary through closed recruitment process
A source said Ali 'harassed Carrie for work'
A close friend and godmother of the Prime Minister's son has been given a £350-a-day role at the Home Office without the job being advertised for the first time, an access request has revealed.…
Singapore consults with tech companies on proposed codes of practice: Josephine Teo
Ms Teo said a common theme in the government's consultations is that Singapore had better "not take a very prescriptive approach but rather be results-based".
This means that Singapore would like to articulate in the codes what people hope…
Collectius acquires over $800 million in non-performing loans in Vietnam for the first time
SINGAPORE, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Collectius, a leading financial institution restructuring partner in Asiaacquired its first portfolios in Vietnam since entering the market late last year,…
Reach for the Stars: New App Offers Interactive Exploration of Women in Astronomy
The Science Near Me blog is a partnership between Discover magazine and ScienceNearMe.org.Today, more women than ever are studying space. The number of female physicists, astronomers, mathematicians and others is steadily increasing, after…
Campus recognizes innovative and dedicated teachers
The Senate Academic Committee on Teaching (COT) in conjunction with Chancellor Cynthia Larive and CP/EVC Lori Kletzer, Cruz celebrated UCSC's innovative and dedicated teachers with a rally at Cowell Provost House in early June. This event,…
Decision Roe v. Wade and abortion rights news
The Biden administration is fighting back amid intensified Republican-led efforts to legislate and implement a nationwide 15-week abortion ban after the Supreme Court's landmark decision to overturn Roe v. Wade - the White House executive…
The State of the Nation: What the Fed’s 75bp Hike and Near 4% Terminal Rate Mean for the OPR
If Bank Negara Malaysia's eight-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) raises the overnight rate (OPR) by 25 basis points (bps) at its next meeting scheduled for July 6, it will mark its first increase consecutive run since mid-2010, when…
UN Women Australia MBA scholarship recipient drives change
Laurena Basutu, recipient of an MBA scholarship from UN Women Australia
Laurena has been awarded the 2022 UN Women Australia MBA Scholarship, which funds the part-time…
Books So Bad They’re Good: Domestic Feminism
My dad didn't seem like a likely candidate to be a feminist. The only son of a vice president of one of Pittsburgh's leading companies, he was loved from birth and had access to every perk his parents could afford: music lessons, summers…
NHL sees steady growth with younger female fans | Company
By JOE REEDY - AP Sports Writer
One of the NHL's biggest stories this season was the increase in viewership in the first year of its television deals with ESPN and…
The Dutch women’s football team will now receive the same salary as the men
This week, the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) announced that the women's national team - known as the Leeuwinnenor Lionesses - will receive the same salaries as their male counterparts from July 1, 2022. Closing the pay gap…
As Title IX celebrates its golden year, are women and girls really treated the same?
"Growing up, you get dangerously used to the inequality between girls' and boys' sports. ... grows, that anger grows." - Sedona Prince, University of Oregon Women's Basketball (Photo by Soobum Im/Getty Images)
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GOP predicts ‘blue-collar backlash’ to Biden’s student loan plans
RPublic leaders predict that President Joe Biden will live to regret "cancelling" student loans if he follows through with executive action, something the White House has been teasing for months.
Biden debates whether to shift $10,000 or…
DfE teacher pay proposals unlikely to solve teacher supply problems in STEM subjects – FE News
New search by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) reveals that the Department for Education (DfE) proposals on teacher pay, combined with other financial incentives such as the 'leveling up bonus', are unlikely to…
Book review Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch
Placeholder while loading article actionsLidia Yuknavitch's extraordinary new novel is the strangest and most breathtaking book about America I have ever breathed. Part history, part prophecy, all fever dream, "Thrust" offers a radical…
The illusion of venture capital for female founders
Camille Kapaun
To make venture capital funding more equitable, it is first essential to recognize the gendered perceptions of ... founders of startups that persist today.
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As a female founder of a start-up…
Fox News paid Melissa Francis $15 million after pay disparity claim
Placeholder while loading article actionsFox News has agreed to a roughly $15 million settlement with a former host who complained about gender-based pay disparities on the cable news network, according to documents reviewed by The…