Although ageism is illegal, one forty-something-woman seeking employment, writes that it is alive and well. She personally has experienced it when she goes in for interviews. We live in a culture that values youth. People are not allowed to grow old, not gracefully, at least. Men and women rush to get botox injections just to hold off the inevitable wrinkles and signs of age. People feel the pressure to go under the knife to tighten and suck away excessive fat and bulk. Is it worth it? What does that do to people's psychology? That comes down to how much people's employment depends on it, how badly they want to get and keep a job, it seems like. What do old people do? Where do they go when they get old? What is our future as a population? We can't stay young forever. Something has to change. Read more.
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What men can do, women can probably do better. There is no reason why more women are not involve with construction. Britain launched a campaign called Women Building London that aims at getting more females involved in construction. Fewer than one percent of building workers are women. Hopefully more females will consider becoming construction workers. There are clearly opportunities for women within the construction industry. Read more.
Take note of this if you are a waitress. An experiment by Dutch psychologists have found that waitresses who copy their customers' behavior gets the bigger tips. The researchers studied staff in an American-style restaurant in southern Holland. Half of the waitresses repeated customers' orders back to them while the other half said someting positive. The copycatters were awarded almost doubled the tip. Read more.
It doesn't look like the job market is getting better any time soon. Whether it's husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, or moms who lose their jobs, the financial burden on the family is great. Last month, the US unemployment rate jumped to a nine-year high. It shed 30,000 jobs in one month. People are losing their jobs and the economy has failed to create jobs for those unemployed. Read more.
Clover Hughes loved country songs and cowboys. She traveled to Texas to find out if the cowboys of her imagination really existed. She ended up finding work as a cowgirl on the JA Ranch. She learned to rope bulls from a galloping pony and other things that cowboys do.
Sometimes violent and almost always dangerous, bronc-riding remains the true stamp of a cowboy's grit and determination in this macho world. I loved the intoxicating rush of adrenalin as I rode a wild pony for the first time, the thudding of blood in my ears and the taste of it in my mouth as I struggled to stay on.
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Graduation is around the corner for students, but there won't be jobs for almost half of them, or 1 million graduates in China. The bleak job market is worsened by SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome. And we thought we have it hard in the United States. Read more.
Keeping a job is hard, finding one is even harder. The unemployment rate in April jumped to 6 percent. That's the highest since August 1994. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released statistics on unemployment rates for different states. Read more.
Parents, teachers, and friends are the reasons why women are underrrepresented in high-tech. With computers figuring more prominently into our society and lives, are women going to be left out of possibly the best jobs? Four women talk about their achievements and struggles in the computer industry. Read more.
We all know not everyone is created equal. Beauty is rewarded in so many ways in our society. In a study by Professors Daniel Hamermesh adn Jeff Biddle, they found that ugliness is penalized. Ugly women earn about 5 percent less than other women. Whereas, ugly men earn about 10 percent less than other men. Life has never been fair. Read more.
World War II was an important event in the history of women's empowerment and self-worth. Women played a significant role in helping on the home front with building ships and other things. They made their own money and became productive members of society. Rosie the Riveter, a 441 feet long memorial in Richmond, the same length as the Liberty ships that the women helped build, honors the millions of World War II women workers. Read more.
