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The #MeToo movement has helped expose sexual harassment in the workplace, but the difficulties that women face on the job are by no means limited to unwanted advances or inappropriate remarks. On ...
Publilius Syrus, classics writer who is often quoted for his seminal Latin work Sentences. He started his life as a slave, but eventually won his freedom. Frederick Douglass, [86] an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman, minister and reformer. He was and is one of the most renowned figures in United ...
Title page of Mary Collier's The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck (London, 1739) (Google Books) This list focuses on published authors whose working-class status or background was part of their literary reputation. These were, in the main, writers without access to formal education, so they were either autodidacts or had mentors or ...
In 2001, the survey on sexual harassment at workplace conducted by women's nonprofit organisation Sakshi among 2,410 respondents in government and non-government sectors, in five states [clarification needed] [79] recorded 53 percent saying that both sexes don't get equal opportunities, 50 percent of women are treated unfairly by employers and ...
By Max Nisen It's easy to look at successful people and explain their achievements as the product of luck - being in the right place at the right time or being born with extraordinary talent.
The world-renowned Mexican painter’s work is celebrated for her heart-wrenching self-portraits that focus on themes of miscarriage, heartbreak and political torment.
Rose Schneiderman (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a Polish-born American labor organizer and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders. As a member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, she drew attention to unsafe workplace conditions, following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, and as a suffragist she helped to pass the New York state ...
A. The Obama administration should revise the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) enacted in 1974, so that the provisions extend coverage to domestic workers - a group that has long been excluded from basic minimum wage and overtime protections. B. The U.S. government should ratify The Convention Concerning Decent Work for