America is the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee compensation for mothers along with mandatory parental leave. In fact, we are one of only three countries in the entire world that don’t mandate parental leave. This puts us in league with Papua New Guinea and Swaziland – and not in a [...]
Say in today’s fiercely competitive job market, you’re given free rein to choose who you’d work for, which employer would you pick? A study by employer-branding company Universum Global has released a list of ideal employers that undergraduates want to work for. The top ten contenders are: Google Apple Walt Disney Company Ernst & Young [...]
Amanda Lamon was just 18 when she found out she was pregnant. People all around her told her that it would then be impossible for her to pursue a career, saying “there’s no way you can do that with a child” or that “you won’t make it through medical school.” Lamon did. She not only [...]
The fact of the matter is that unemployment benefits does good to our society as a whole. It does not promote laziness, but it provides a means and an incentive for the unemployed to keep looking for jobs suited to their skills instead of “falling back on welfare”.
Mother’s day may be half a week over, but it is nonetheless a reminder of the value that these women provide for both their children and their country. And yet here we are with a 15% unemployment rate in 2011 for unmarried, divorced or separated moms. That’s about 1.2 million single mothers with children under [...]
Nearly half of all US workers are women, with two-thirds of all mothers bringing home some or all of the bacon at the end of the day and one in four families headed by a single parent. Even in married families earning $200,000 or more a year, nearly three in four wives were part of [...]