Inequality between the sexes cannot fully explain figures which showed female graduates were paid 14.3 per cent less than their male counterparts, a UOW academic says. The 2011 GradStats report showed a large pay gap in architecture, commerce and earth sciences, but equal pay in traditional male fields of engineering and mathematics. Nadia Verrucci, a [...]
According to Korean Women Link’s analysis of 300 counseling cases handled by the organisation in 2011, 100 cases, or 33 percent, were related to sexual harassment within the workplace. These cases accounted for the largest portions of claims. In 44% of the sexual harassment cases, the perpetrators were either the employers or senior employees. Many [...]
Seven out of 10 working women claim that their employer does not have an equal opportunity policy at work to avoid discrimination and harassment, a study has shown. One in every 10 women experienced some form of sexual harassment at work but half did not report the abuse or avoided the perpetrator. Only one in [...]
Every weekend it has been the same ritual for so many months. Buying the newspaper, going through the classified and the employment sections inch by column inch, marking job offers that could offer a chance, even remotely. Next comes the posting of applications, then the wait for interviews. That is as far as Harshini Hathurusinghe [...]
Many workers in the service industry suffer from stress and insomnia because of absurd customer demands, with women being the most troublesome. More than two-thirds of 500 respondents surveyed by the Vital Employee Service Consultancy complained of being under constant pressure at work. Women are four times more likely to cause them trouble than men. [...]
Prompted by the image of three soldiers stripping a female protester naked and violently assaulting her, thousands of women marched on Tuesday from Cairo’s Tahrir Square to the nearby Press Syndicate chanting, “Egyptian women are a red line” and “Down with military rule.” Women of all ages and backgrounds converged on the Mogamma administrative complex [...]
Azim Mai’s husband allegedly threw acid in her face last year after she refused to sell their two boys to a man in Dubai to use as camel racers. The 35-year-old mother of five can no longer find work as a maid because her deeply scarred face scares potential employers. Acid burnings are among the [...]
This week, the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery held its 1,000th Wednesday Demonstrations in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul’s Jongno district to call for a resolution to the comfort women issue. Twenty years have passed since the former “comfort women”, who had been coerced to serve as sex [...]
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) to be held next year in Rio de Janeiro gives the opportunity to create institutions to defend the rights of the future generations, according to representatives of civil society from all over the world who contributted to the Social Watch Report 2012, launched in New York on [...]
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou announced plans to reduce the work week and restrict unpaid leave as he battles slower economic growth, in a move the opposition said was a campaign ploy ahead of January elections, according to the Bloomberg Businessweek. The government proposed cutting the work week from 84 hours every two weeks to 40 [...]
