Posts Tagged Economy

By Courtney • 14 years ago

New Research Shows that Women are Disproportionately Vulnerable to Eviction

The New York Times reports:

New research is showing that eviction is a particular burden on low-income black women, often single mothers, who have an easier time renting apartments than their male counterparts, but are vulnerable to losing them because their wages or public benefits have not kept up with the cost of housing.

This will come as no surprise to those that have been following the ways in which this economic down turn has exacerbated many of the financial threats facing so many women and people of color, in particular. Just as corrupt mortgage companies have targeted low-income women, well-documented in places like Baltimore, women are now losing their rented housing at higher rates than men.
This new study ...

The New York Times reports:

New research is showing that eviction is a particular burden on low-income black women, often single mothers, who have an easier time renting apartments than their male counterparts, but are vulnerable to ...
By Samhita • 14 years ago

Would You Pay for the New York Times?


The word on the street is that the New York Times may be moving to a pay scale for viewing content online.

New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, according to people familiar with internal deliberations. After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper, the choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted by the Financial Times, in which readers can sample a certain number of free articles before being asked to subscribe. The Times seems to have settled on the metered system.

As someone who writes for a website that provides ...


The word on the street is that the New York Times may be moving to a pay scale for viewing content online.

New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the ...
By Courtney • 14 years ago

H&M Reportedly Destroys Unworn Clothing in a Time of Recession

The New York Times reported yesterday that massive clothing chain H&M is damaging perfectly good, unworn clothing before throwing it away. From the article:

This week, a manager in the H&M store on 34th Street said inquiries about its disposal practices had to be made to its United States headquarters. However, various officials did not respond to 10 inquiries made Tuesday by phone and e-mail.

My own research finds that H&M claims the following on its website:

What do you do with surplus clothes?
We donate clothes that do not meet H&M’s quality requirements to charity organisations like Oxfam, Caritas, the Red Cross and Terre des Hommes. Each store is itself responsible for clothes that are returned to it. Often there ...

The New York Times reported yesterday that massive clothing chain H&M is damaging perfectly good, unworn clothing before throwing it away. From the article:

This week, a manager in the H&M store on 34th Street said inquiries ...
By Rose • 14 years ago

Women overall make labor force gains; mothers thrown under the bus

This briefing on women in the workforce is impressive. While I am excited that women have made economic progress, I am still distressed about the sexism that is still inherent in the workforce. This companion article aptly points out that the gender inequality issues we have yet to confront in the workforce have to do with issues like the lack of Paid Family Leave, unequal pay between men and women and the lack of representation of women in higher levels at a company.

However, this article goes on to make a wrong turn:

Many women feel they have to choose between their children and their careers. Women who prosper in high-pressure companies during their 20s drop out in ...

This briefing on women in the workforce is impressive. While I am excited that women have made economic progress, I am still distressed about the sexism that is still inherent in the workforce. This

By Chloe Angyal • 14 years ago

The Feministing Five: Elizabeth Scharpf

Elizabeth Scharpf is the founder of Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE), a social venture that brings together women’s rights, public health and global economics in one amazing project. Scharpf, who has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA in international development from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has spent much of her professional life in start up healthcare ventures. Several years ago, while working in Mozambique, she saw the connection between inadequate sanitary protection for menstruating girls and women, and lost income and education for towns, cities and entire countries.
When menstruating girls and women have to use rags or bark, or are afraid of leaking, they miss school and work – up to fifty days ...

Elizabeth Scharpf is the founder of Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE), a social venture that brings together women’s rights, public health and global economics in one amazing project. Scharpf, who has an MBA from Harvard ...
By Courtney • 14 years ago

Silver Lining of the Recession…Not So Much

A month or two after the recession hit, there was plenty of talk (yes, including by me), about how this could be an opportunity to finally shake things up at the top. The big dawgs had been dethroned and the hope was that, in their fall, a more diverse, more ethical crew of leaders could rise to the top. Then again, this is corporate America.
Catalyst’s latest report on women’s share of board positions confirms that change wasn’t swept in with the recession. In fact, things stagnated:

Women held 15.2 percent of board seats, a number that reflects little growth over the past five years. Women of color held 3.1 percent of all board director positions, compared to 3.2 last ...

A month or two after the recession hit, there was plenty of talk (yes, including by me), about how this could be an opportunity to finally shake things up at the top. The big dawgs had ...
By Courtney • 14 years ago

Not Oprah’s Book Club: Get Financially Naked

Did you know that 80% of men die married while 80% of women die single?

This isn’t to depress anyone, and no, I’m not going to follow this up with some bogus stat about how it’s harder for a woman in New York City to find a partner than it is to find a unicorn on the Great Lawn. The fear mongers have been there, done that. What I am going to tell you is that it’s critical that you understand your finances and start making informed choices about them. Not because you’ll potentially be alone, sadsadsniffsniff, but because you’ll potentially be alone, and think of all the incredible adventures you could have!
That’s where this new book, by Manisha ...

Did you know that 80% of men die married while 80% of women die single?

This isn’t to depress anyone, and no, I’m not going to follow this up with some bogus stat about how it’s harder for ...

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