By SARAH E. NEEDLEMAN The Wall Street Journal Entrepreneurs focused on growing their businesses are sometimes caught off guard when employees start growing their families. Sendero Business Services LP, a management-consulting firm in Dallas, wasn’t prepared when a manager became pregnant in 2007 and asked what its maternity-leave policy entailed, says co-owner and partner Ruth [...]
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UNIFEM and NCRW to Raise Awareness About Violence Against Women
The US National Committee for UNIFEM and the National Council for Research on Women Join Forces on a National Conference to Promote Efforts Aimed at Ending Violence against Women. The conference is a collaborative initiative between two preeminent organizations working towards ending this global pandemic. The US National Committee for the United Nations Development Fund [...]
Stop Violence Against Women :: Sign the petition
In the chaos of conflict and disaster, women and girls can suffer unspeakable violence, exploitation and abuse. The odds are against them as they struggle to survive and protect themselves and their families. Urge Congressional leaders to support the International Violence Against Women Act and ensure that Congress passes it without delay. This legislation will [...]
New York’s Choking Loophole
Dorchen Leidholdt and Jane Manning contribute to New York Times OP-Ed to demand for a statute which will recognize choking as a crime whether or not physical injury is evident. By DORCHEN LEIDHOLDT and JANE MANNING NEW YORKERS have heard a stream of grave accusations this week that our governor tried to obstruct a domestic [...]
Lucy Parsons :: Revolutionary Feminist
By Saswat Pattanayak No legal case in American history has been more cited than The Scottsboro Trial. Nine young African American men, aged 13 and up, were jailed in Scottsboro, Alabama to await trial over an accusation that they had raped two white women on a train in the Spring of 1931. The nature of [...]
Long Island Bar Fires Pregnant Bartender
ABC News reports on Jennifer Paviglianiti’s charges of discrimination with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Bartender in Topless Bar Says She Was Discriminated Against for Being Pregnant By MARY KATHRYN BURKE and BRENNAN MCCORD When Jennifer Paviglianiti, 29, of Centereach, N.Y., discovered she was pregnant, she hoped to wait until the three-month [...]
Time Off Work For A Breakup?
By Kiri Blakeley, FORBES You can take time off for health or child care issues, but where’s the corporate understanding about work disruption due to relationship turmoil? When news broke that Sandra Bullock’s husband, Jesse James, was allegedly having an affair with a tattooed biker model, Bullock pulled out of the London premiere of her [...]