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New Survey From Broad Coalition Shows Overlapping Challenges of Racial, Gender, and Economic Injustice Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Leave a Comment / labor, Pandemic / By max cyril

Today, Color Of Change, National Employment Law Project, the TIME’S UP Foundation Impact Lab, and the Worker Institute at Cornell ILR released results from new survey research showing deep racial, gender, and economic disparities in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The data point to immediate worker needs and long-standing structural inequities that policymakers and …

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The Grooming Gap: What “Looking the Part” Costs Women

Leave a Comment / Gender Discrimination / By max cyril

Madison, who works a customer service job at an airport spa, has an employee handbook that says “makeup should be well maintained” and “hands and nails must be well manicured.” She says the few men she works with just ignore these guidelines “because they’re meant for women but [it] doesn’t explicitly say that.” Her wages …

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Caster Semenya gets reprieve from discriminatory regulations, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be

Leave a Comment / Gender Discrimination / By max cyril

On Monday, news outlets around the globe ran headlines reporting that South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya won an important court battle. The two-time Olympic champion in the 800 meters had filed an appeal last week to challenge the Court of Arbitration in Sports’ (CAS) ruling that she must artificially lower her testosterone levels in …

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The pay gap and sexual harassment must be addressed simultaneously

Leave a Comment / sexual harassment / By max cyril

Over the past few days, more and more men have continued to resign or at the very least publicly confront accusations of sexual harassment, and this trend shows no sign of slowing down. On Wednesday, former President George H.W. Bush apologized for groping actress Heather Lind (with a caveat that it was an “attempt at …

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Facebook’s gender bias goes so deep it’s in the code

Leave a Comment / Gender Discrimination, technology / By max cyril

A hurricane has been brewing at Facebook. After years of suspicion, a veteran female Facebook engineer decided to evaluate what if any gaps there were in how female and male engineers’ work was treated. She did it “so that we can have an insight into how the review process impacts people in various groups,” the …

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Twitter Regrets Throwing Frat-Themed Employee Party

Leave a Comment / Gender Discrimination, Uncategorized / By max cyril

Twitter threw a summer soiree to rival all soirees Tuesday. The microblogging site hosted a college-frat-party themed happy hour for its San Francisco employees complete with beer pong, a keg, those iconic red Solo cups synonymous with underage drinking, and a proud banner that read “TW?TT?R ?R?T H?VS?.” News of the party spread like wildfire …

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Jane Espenson on Getting More Women in the Writers’ Room

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Jane Espenson, in a provocative and I think important essay for the Huffington Post, argues that the key to getting more women in the writers’ rooms of television shows is actually to walk away from the idea that women have something particular to add to the conversation: Good writers can write across the gender line. We …

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Employee Rights Short Takes: Supreme Court Hears Equal Protection Case, Firing For Facebook Posts May Be Illegal & More

Leave a Comment / discrimination, privacy, Retaliation / By max cyril

Texas Doctor To Collect Over 10 Million On Defamation/Breach of Contract Case The Supreme Court of Texas cleared the way for Dr. Neal Fisher, a Dallas physician, to collect his 9.8 million dollar verdict against Pinnacle Anesthesia Consultants – an anesthesia group of which he was a shareholder and founding member. Fisher sued Pinnacle for …

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