Female Employment

Empower Women, Improve The Economy?

Forbes Woman | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Women in the Workforce, Women in the Workplace, Empowering Women, Gender Equality, Equality in the Workplace, The Economy, Female Employment, Women News

Last week's Lunch with the FT column featured an interview with Esther Duflo, MIT economist and co-author of Poor Economics. Duflo and her co-author A...

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Why Are We So Afraid of the Q Word?

Pat Mitchell | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Quotas, Equal Employment Opportunity Act, Glass Ceiling, Women Employment, Eeoa, Female Employment, Women in Media, Media News
Pat Mitchell

Time to confess, I decided. I am actually a product of quotas. Yes, let the truth be known that I was hired for my job in television because the station that hired me was responding to a federal initiative under the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.

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Re-visiting The 'She-covery'

The New York Times | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Job Growth, Male Employment, Statistical Fluctuations, Unemployment, Female Employment, Recession, Employment, Women News

Mike Konczal has a good post at the New Deal 2.0 blog, pointing out that much of the recent rise in female employment - the subject of my post on Frid...

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Literacy in India: A Gift That Never Stops Giving

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, India, Education, Literacy, Illiteracy, Developing Countries, Indian Literacy, Economic Empowerment, Adult Illiteracy, Female-Employment, Higher Education, Health Care, Impact News
Marissa Bronfman

Since the early 1990s, every WLC program has given a pivotal role to women's groups in Hindi -- as they have proven to be extraordinarily powerful forces in promoting female literacy and empowerment in India.

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Short-Changed: White House Women Hired Below White House Men

Ariel Boone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Female-Employment, Women's Rights, White House Employees, Pay Discrimination, Politics News
Ariel Boone

A July 1 report to Congress revealed that for every dollar earned by White House men, White House women earn 89 cents. These pennies are symptomatic of a much larger problem.

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Becoming A Dominatrix To Supplement Income

The Daily Beast | Tracy Quan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women, US Economic Crisis, Female Employment, Sex Industry, Economic Crisis, Economy, Dominatrix, Business News

As the economy takes a spanking, many women are turning to freelance fetish work to supplement their incomes. "I've seen it before," says Linda, "dur...

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