Tag Archives: Work
The smaller the body size, the bigger the paycheck?
TweetThat’s right, folks. A new study published in the fall issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology found not only that skinny women make more money than women with larger body sizes, but they make a helluva lot more — in fact, a whopping $16,000 more a year on average: The study found that thin [...]
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President Obama orders new federal breastfeeding policy
TweetAlthough breastfeeding private and public sector workers’ rights are included in the new health care reform law, President Obama has requested guidelines be implemented for federal employees: President Obama is asking federal personnel officials to draft “appropriate workplace accommodations” for federal employees who are nursing mothers. The president issued a memo Monday to the Office [...]
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It’s not the “year of the woman” in American business, either
TweetWhat do Apple, Bed Bath & Beyond, Blockbuster, Citigroup, Comcast, Costco, Delta Airlines, Exxon Mobil, Intel, Kohl’s, Loews, McGraw-Hill, Pepsi Bottling, RadioShack, Sysco and Virgin Media all have in common? None of these Fortune 500 companies has a single woman executive officer. The list of companies with absolutely no women in the top ranks was [...]
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Norwegian company orders employees to wear a red bracelet during their period
Tweet The mark of the menses. Holy shit: The astonishing demand was revealed in report by a workers’ union into ‘tyrannical’ toilet rules in Norwegian companies. The study claimed businesses were becoming obsessed with lost productivity due to employees spending too much time answering the call of nature. It found 66 per cent of managers [...]
Fewer than 5% of new jobs went to women in the last year