Women Poop. Sometimes At Work. Get Over It. Which is not to say that anxious poopers or audible flatulators of all genders don’t exist: Indeed, a male friend of ours, a U.S. Marine, recently explained that he often changes out of his military uniform and into another while on base in order to enter an entirely different facility to use the restroom. (He was one of three individuals who responded to a survey we sent out to 100 people, mostly women, about fecal habits at work. Even with the cloak of anonymity, apparently nobody wanted to talk about it.) But while boys and men are more likely to develop “paruresis,” the D.S.M.
-recognized medical term for pee-shyness — theorized by some to stem, in part, from the pressure of standing next to each other at open urinals — it is women who are more likely to have “parcopresis,” the corresponding bowel movement anxiety, which is not in the D.S.M., according to a variety of fecal scholars. “The bathroom is saturated with gender in fascinating ways,” said Mr. Gender pay gap: new report says it’s much worse than you’ve heard. Every year on Equal Pay Day, we hear that women in America make about 80 cents for every dollar men earn. For many women of color, the number is lower — black women make about 63 cents on the dollar compared with men, while Latina women make 54 cents. But matters are actually worse than any of these numbers would suggest, according to a report published Wednesday by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), a think tank that looks at public policy through the lens of gender.
Measures of the pay gap typically compare the wages of men and women working full time in a given year, as Emily Peck notes at HuffPost. But women are more likely to drop out of full-time work to take care of children or other family members. To account for this, the report’s authors looked at women’s earnings across a 15-year period, and compared those with men’s. Men lost income when they dropped out of the labor force too, of course. Traditional measures of the pay gap miss the big picture. Glasgow-strike-women-equal-pay-gmb-unsion-equality-picket-line-a8597526.
Hundreds of schools and nurseries in Glasgow are closed and home care services faced disruption as council workers staged one of Britain’s biggest strikes over equal pay. The walkout – which involves more than 8,000 workers – started at 7am on Tuesday and follows years of legal disputes between unions and Glasgow City Council (GCC) over claims that staff in female-dominated roles, such as cleaning, were underpaid.
Some women claim they made up to £3-an-hour less than those in male-dominated roles, such as bin collections. Some women are said to have been paid up to £4,000-a-year less than male counterparts. Thousands of female workers are proceeding with claims against the council following a court of session ruling last year. Members of the GMB and Unison unions are striking amid a “lack of progress” on equal pay claims from thousands of female workers, the unions said. The workers are striking over a long-running row over equal pay. “There is no need for it. Gender pay gap a persistent problem in Canada: Statscan data.
It may be 2017 and Canada may have a self-proclaimed feminist as Prime Minister, but gender parity is not yet the norm in Canadian workplaces. Recent annual data show that, in yearly earnings, women working full time in Canada still earned 74.2 cents for every dollar that full-time male workers made. Another measure that controls for the fact that men typically work more hours than women – the hourly wage rate – shows women earned 87.9 cents on the dollar as of last year. The updated numbers, compiled from Statistics Canada data, show the pay gap exists in every province and in every major occupational group, though there are variations. The gap in annual earnings between men and women has barely budged over the past two decades, even as education levels among women have surpassed those of men.
Canada’s gender pay disparity is larger than the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development average. It also carries long-term consequences. How do we measure the gender pay gap? I need to have a baby to benefit from this federal budget: Mochama. I really don’t want one, but I think I should have a kid. I was reviewing the new federal budget and that’s probably my best move. Finance minister Bill Morneau introduced it with an anecdote about a Toronto taxi driver who, on recognizing Morneau, called his wife so they both could tell the minister about the positive impact the Canada child benefit has had on their lives. Good for them and their anecdotal children. This budget goes further in supporting families. It proposes to let mothers to take more of their maternity leave in advance of giving birth and allow families to choose to spread parental leave payments over 18 months instead of the current 12.
I, for one, hope Morneau takes the bus when he’s in town, because I might like to meet him to have a few choice words about the mid-2017 elimination of the public transit tax credit. The government’s solution is to give millions more to provinces and territories directly and through the proposed Canada Infrastructure Bank. 3 things women say that weaken the power of their words. If we're to believe the self-help aisle of every '90s bookstore, men and women talk and act so differently because we're really from two opposing planets.
While that's not factually accurate, there's no denying that men and women have unique communication styles, and that disparity can make things challenging for women looking to get ahead in careers still dominated by male voices. But when the first female presidential nominee for a major political party addresses the nation to describe her vision for America — to be met by pundits dissecting her smile and her "shrill" tone instead of her proposed policies — it’s clear that words really matter. Not simply because we’re women, but especially because we’re women. So, what makes language explicitly "female"? Ask a linguist and they'll tell you that women's language is generally more expressive and emotional. Women learn to speak earlier and with greater complexity. All of those are true and fair.
It is 2016. A crisis of confidence | Elle Canada. My first full-time job in journalism was as an editor at a magazine in Toronto. At 24, I was grateful — and astonished — that I had been hired and spent the first year waiting to get the sack. I sat through story meetings where editors, all of whom seemed infinitely more competent, held forth authoritatively about which writers “delivered” or why zucchini blossoms were zeitgeisty. I tended to slip in late to those weekly summits so that I could score a seat neatly hidden behind somebody else.
It’s not that I’m particularly shy or that I didn’t have any thoughts on, say, why the courgette was au courant. (Well, actually, I had no thoughts on that.) When I wasn’t sitting mute through meetings, I wrote breaking-news bits (like about the time Martha Stewart came to town and ate a brioche) and worked on the shopping column, co-ordinating photo shoots with $20 loaves of Poilâne bread flown in from Paris’ sixth arrondissement. So, I quit my job and went freelance. She also had fun. I like joy. The real reason that so many women have to spend so much time getting ready. iStock Before 8 a.m., I have often already applied seven products to my face -- face wash, tinted moisturizer, eyeliner, mascara and more. And I don’t think I’m terribly fussy, or alone. In an effort to appear polished and professional, many American women -- not all, of course, but many -- spend a huge amount of time and money on makeup and skincare products.
Hugely popular cosmetics companies such as Sephora and Bluemercury feature a slew of products that I don’t even understand – from Amazonian clay-infused eyebrow mousse to ambient lighting powder. This is not to mention the time and effort many women spend on their hair, clothing, nails and other beauty routines. You might dismiss all this female primping and preening as vanity or silliness. Alexandra Petri explains the perks that come from signing up for a "woman card. " Like past studies, the research showed that attractive people tended to earn higher salaries.
Researchers have various explanations for this. Wonkbook newsletter. Most People Don't Know What They Should Be Making | Glamour. We know there's a good chance we're not making as much as we should. (Hello, wage gap.) But beyond closing that disturbing 21-cent discrepancy, how do we know what we should be making? In honor of Equal Pay Day, Glassdoor set to find out—and discovered most of us have no clue what our fair-market value is or should be. The Global Salary Transparency Survey, released today, shows that fewer than half of all employees around the world—64 percent, to be exact—work for companies that don't share pay data internally, with just 36 percent saying their companies do share internal salary information with employees.
Even worse, American employees are the least likely to have a handle on what their cubicle mates or presentation partners take home, with just 31 percent saying their employer shares salaries. But we want to know. But whether we're talking about the gender pay gap or what our position's fair market value is, most of us agree we should be talking about it. How I Landed My Dream Job Even Though I Wasn't an Overachiever. People who went to fancy schools throughout life do have an advantage, but that doesn't make my experience at public schools invaluable. Mizzou, although public, is a great school. I grew up around people of many different cultural and financial backgrounds, and wasn't surrounded all my life by people who look and talk just like me. You learn a lot about yourself and the world when you're exposed to new things and people, and I try to use that perspective when coming up with article ideas that maybe someone else wouldn't think to write about. 3.
The "right" thing to do: Join a sorority, or a bunch of clubs and committees, and then become president/treasurer/chairwoman/boss lady/whatever of said clubs and committees. What I did: Joined a sorority, and I'm not totally sure I made it to more than one meeting. Clubs can cost a lot of money and aren't all that necessary in my humble opinion. 4.
If you want to do something completely unrelated to your career path, do it! 5. 6. 7. 3 Things Nurses REALLY want | Nurse Stories. Nurses don’t want a new cafeteria or the façade of the building remodeled. They don’t want to see an award touting how great the facility is in a state of the art display case. They don’t want to see new carpeting on the units, and they don’t want to see new nurses stations put in because the older ones were “ugly.” What do nurses really want? It is simple: they want an environment in which they can care for their patients with the least amount of stress. Facilities seem to put the money into things that are cosmetic or that make the place look good to outsiders. Why don’t they put the money into the things that really matter to nurses and to patients? Why don’t they focus on these three things that would help nurses do their jobs with the minimum amount of burnout? Safe Staffing Ratios Hire more nurses.
In addition, it is unsafe to work in conditions where you have 8-10 patients on an acute care floor. Breaks Nurses want breaks. The breaks problem really extends from the ratio problem. Male biology students consistently underestimate female peers, study finds. News releases | Research | Social science February 11, 2016 The survey data showed that in a hypothetical class made up equally of males and females with the same grades and level of outspokenness, males consistently named their male peers as being more knowledgeable, and female students showed a pattern of moving from female to male nominations over the course of the class.PLOS ONE Female college students are more likely to abandon studies in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines than their male classmates, and new research from the University of Washington suggests that those male peers may play a key role in undermining their confidence.
Published this week in the journal PLOS ONE, the study found that males enrolled in undergraduate biology classes consistently ranked their male classmates as more knowledgeable about course content, even over better-performing female students. Read the researchers’ study online in PLOS ONE. National Women In Engineering Day: 'My dad said architecture wasn't for girls. Boy I proved him wrong' From my first day I was entranced and decades later I still am. For my first post I interviewed for a technician's role, which I wasn’t really qualified for, but they called me back to discuss a role as assistant to one of the partners. That's where I encountered my first discriminatory comments - one of the partners at interview keenly noted that I was newly married, and asked what would happen if I became pregnant? My answer was to look him in the eye and state that I would have a child. He was - to give him his due - duly embarrassed and apologetic.
Over the years I have encountered many people who’ve assumed that a junior male colleague at a site visit or meeting was the senior member of the team - but it only takes a few minutes for them to realise that, despite being a woman, I do know what I am talking about. So, why should women study architecture? From September 1st 2015, I will be putting my money where mouth is as I become the 75th president of RIBA. Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: 'I want women to be paid more' It took Sheryl Sandberg a long time – "too long" – to realise she was a feminist, and even longer to say it out loud. As chief operating officer of Facebook, she is among the most high-profile executives in the world, the more so for being female. Most of those in her position, she says, barely admit to being women, let alone feminists, so her decision to publish Lean In, a book of feminist advice for women in the workplace, constitutes a radical departure.
"I wish I had done more earlier," she says. "I wasn't brave enough. " We are in a windowless room in Facebook's Palo Alto HQ, where Sandberg is drinking from a huge Starbucks cup (she used to be on the board at Starbucks) and exuding that slightly gimlet-eyed cheerfulness one associates with corporate advancement. What she is not, for the most part, is wrong. "I give a lot of negotiating advice, which has the principal property of saying, understand the biases against women and use that to your advantage in negotiation. Wow. Female academics pay a heavy baby penalty.
Photo by Cristi M/iStockphoto/Thinkstock In 2000, I greeted the first entering graduate-student class at Berkeley where the women outnumbered the men. I was the first female dean of the graduate division. As a ’70s feminist I cautiously thought, “Is the revolution over? Have we won?” Hardly. That afternoon I looked around the room at my first dean’s meeting and all I saw were grey haired men. The next week at the first general faculty meeting of the semester I noted that women were still only about a quarter of the faculty, and most were junior. Our Berkeley research team has spent more than a decade studying why so many women begin the climb but do not make it to the top of the Ivory Tower: the tenured faculty, full professors, deans, and presidents.
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