Posts Tagged Business

By Samhita • 16 years ago

Save Internet Radio!

This one totally passed me right by, but today is a “Day of Silence” to save internet radio. Why should we care about the corporate takeover of web radio? Because people that can’t get radio stations on the airwaves anymore and folks (community run women and people of color stations) that have been put out of business by companies like Clear Channel, have gone to internet radio. But now internet radio is at risk as well.
via Wired News.

Barring Congressional intervention or the success of one of the many appeals of the Copyright Royalty Board’s decision, Internet radio will die on July 15th, when payments under the new scheme are due, though SoundExchange recently back-pedaled a bit by exempting ...

This one totally passed me right by, but today is a “Day of Silence” to save internet radio. Why should we care about the corporate takeover of web radio? Because people that can’t get radio stations on ...
By Ann • 17 years ago

Businesses don’t have to cover your pills

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a company’s failure to offer insurance coverage for contraception doesn’t violate its female employees’ civil rights.
The suit against Union Pacific railroad for failing to cover contraceptives has been going on for years. In 2005, after the district court ruled in favor of UP’s female employees who sued for coverage, the company “independently” agreed to cover birth control. (Initially, the UP insurance plan covered drugs like Viagra and Rogaine but not birth control pills or IUDs.) So this disastrous ruling isn’t necessarily bad for female employees of UP. But it means that UP and other companies are still not required to cover your pills. Which is a problem.
The female employees ...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a company’s failure to offer insurance coverage for contraception doesn’t violate its female employees’ civil rights.
The suit against Union Pacific railroad for failing to cover contraceptives has ...
By Ann • 17 years ago

The business of sisterhood

Writing for The New Republic Online, Alexandra Robbins says the DePauw sorority’s ouster of its less-than-Barbielike members was purely a business decision:

But, in truth, the ouster wasn’t just about Aryan uniformity–it was about business. As Delta Zeta’s national office admitted, it needed to recruit new members because its house was half-empty–and it wanted to make the sorority popular again (it used the pretense of lax recruiting to boot the victims). The way to do that, presumably, was to make it seem pretty and perfect (even if that meant a caricature).

Isn’t it any wonder sororities call this process “re-colonization”? Sure, there may have been business goals motivating this decision, but it was a racist and fat-phobic ...

Writing for The New Republic Online, Alexandra Robbins says the DePauw sorority’s ouster of its less-than-Barbielike members was purely a business decision:

But, in truth, the ouster wasn’t just about Aryan uniformity–it was about ...
By Ann • 17 years ago

Today in women-as-meat news…


The Penthouse Steakhouse.

“Are you hungry?� one of these women said, making hungry sound like an X-rated word. “Ravenous?�

Yet another in an ongoing series of ads, eateries and comments that equate women and meat.
(Thanks to Erin for the link.)


The Penthouse Steakhouse.

“Are you hungry?� one of these women said, making hungry sound like an X-rated word. “Ravenous?�

Yet another in an ongoing series of ads, eateries ...
By Vanessa • 17 years ago

You like us! You really, really like us!

Everything about this rubbed me the wrong way.
This weekend’s World Economic Forum held a “Powerful Womenâ€? reception, which was co-sponsored by Forbes and Ernst & Young. The welcoming speeches were given by the (male) CEOs of the companies as well. You can try to redeem yourself, Forbes…

Heads of state, ministers and chief executives were among those who attended…
But there were also a lot of men.
‘I think that shows that men like powerful women,’ quipped Deborah Platt Majoras, chairman (yes, that’s what her business card says) of the United States Federal Trade Commission, as she scanned the room while sipping a glass of champagne.

The whole coverage was about men’s reaction, even the one quote ...

Everything about this rubbed me the wrong way.
This weekend’s World Economic Forum held a “Powerful Women� reception, which was co-sponsored by Forbes and Ernst & Young. The welcoming speeches were given by the (male) ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Too fat to fly.

Beauty image obsessions are just going WAY too far. Indian Airlines has been suspending their female flight attendants for being overweight. Their justification is that they need to save the company image. One company exec actually said, why would you fly with us, if other airlines have better looking staff. I don’t know about you, but I am usually looking for the cheapest ticket and couldn’t care fuck-all what the flight attendants look like. But I guess creepy businessmen flying around Asia may feel differently.

Eleven employees, recently grounded for putting on too much weight, claim that the airline has changed its vision of the Indian feminine ideal – abandoning the more buxom prototype in favour of a more westernised, skinny ...

Beauty image obsessions are just going WAY too far. Indian Airlines has been suspending their female flight attendants for being overweight. Their justification is that they need to save the company image. One company exec actually said, ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Most US women owned businesses home-based.

Well I guess if you can’t get into the board room, the living room works.

Nearly half of all U.S. businesses are run from home, and most companies owned by women are home-based, according to a government report released on Wednesday.
The data, showing 56 percent of female-owned businesses are run from home, illustrates how women opt to work from home for an array of family reasons, workplace experts say.
Among businesses owned by men, less than half, or 47 percent, were home-based, said the U.S. Census Bureau report.
“A significant percent of women having businesses in the home are comprised of women who are doing it for family reasons,” said Kathleen Christensen, director of the Workplace, Workforce and Working Families ...

Well I guess if you can’t get into the board room, the living room works.

Nearly half of all U.S. businesses are run from home, and most companies owned by women are home-based, according to a government report ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Top 100 places for working moms to work.

Working Mother did a study to find the 100 best companies for working mothers to work in. Their methodology included,

The list of companies selected for the 2006 Working Mother 100 Best Companies was based on an extensive application completed by each company. The application includes detailed questions about the workforce, compensation, child-care and flexibility programs, leave policies and more. The application checks the usage, availability and tracking of programs, as well as the accountability of managers who oversee them. That means it’s not enough to have a great program if no one is using it.

Check out the list via Business Week Online.
And let’s not forget, all moms work. Being a mother is WORK.

Working Mother did a study to find the 100 best companies for working mothers to work in. Their methodology included,

The list of companies selected for the 2006 Working Mother 100 Best Companies was based on an ...

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