A woman who was fired an hour after revealing she was pregnant to her boss has been told that her pregnancy was not a factor in her losing her job. The case is currently being heard by the Human Rights Commission in Canada. Her bosses say that she was already earmarked for dismissal because they ...
According to recent research, the IT sector may be a better career choice for women than it appears at first glance. So why are less women entering the field and record numbers of women leaving it? Society doesn’t really seem to encourage women to study or excel at maths or science. And if less women ...
Many women are putting kids on the back burner until they get an education and career. The consequence? Some women are left childless. But there’s new evidence that educated women, for the most part, are actually having more kids. Canada is the odd woman out. While women in the US are getting an education without ...
One quarter of all women with degrees in the United States end up childless. That is a lot. It hardly seems like something to worry about when the average American woman has 2.1 children. It’s enough to replace the population with a little room to spare. Yet we are currently in the middle of a ...
A woman has been sacked in the UK for refusing to wear make-up at work, and she’s decided that’s just not right. Melanie Stark was a retail assistant at department store Harrods before she was unceremoniously dumped for daring to show her bare face in public. Now she’s taken her case to the media and ...
Who said women couldn’t make awesome businesswomen? Turns out they are in possession of one of the most valuable commodities, breast milk. So those who can sell it on the Internet in exchange for quite a bit of cash. Called a mother’s natural liquid gold, a month’s supply of milk can cost anywhere from $300 ...
The American workplace is still unfair for breastfeeding mothers according to a new study by public health researchers from the University of South Carolina. Research shows that women who take longer maternity leaves breastfeed longer. Many health organizations recommend breastfeeding for at least six months and up to two years while introducing the baby to ...
We often hear talk of women breaking through the glass ceiling, of achieving complete equality with men, of no longer requiring feminism. But a recent study shows that despite women getting the same education as men, and quite often kicking their butts at it, when women enter the workforce they’re still being paid less. Females ...
Women have made great strides towards evening the playing field in education and the workplace, but we still can’t wave the equality flag when some places are noticing these changes more than others. While it may be hard to measure sex equality, data has been extracted from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to create ...
The UK is looking into extending their paternity leave — increasing from 2 weeks to 26 weeks. This would make the time off seem less like an extra holiday for new fathers and actually give them the ability to participate in the baby’s childcare. Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, has suggested following some ...
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Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
