Recognition Matters: How Two Founders Are Spotlighting Women-Led Businesses Across North America

Stephanie and Courtney decided to change that. In 2022, they launched the Entreprenista 100 Awards, a program designed to ...

Melbourne Cup jockey Jamie Melham eyes off history on board Half Yours

Star jockey Jamie Melham and her mount Half Yours will carry the weight of a nation as one of the Melbourne Cup favourites at ...
High School OT

HighSchoolOT's Male and Female Athletes of the Week for October 20-25

HighSchoolOT is naming a male and female athlete of the week from all six of North Carolina's area codes in the 2025-26 school year. HighSchoolOT is naming athletes of the week for each area code ...
The San Bernardino Sun

Women workers were laid off as a ‘solution’ to Great Depression’s problems

Rosie the Riveter became the female hero of World War II, a symbol of those women who took on vacant male-oriented jobs and played a valuable role in the war effort. But only a few years before, she ...
Undercurrent News

Canadian seafood company fights back on temporary foreign workers penalty

A New Brunswick shellfish processing company that was slapped with a CAD 1.0 million ($716,954) fine for violations of Canada's Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program is asking Canada's federal court ...
The Washington Post

Work Advice: California workers get good news on ‘stay or pay’ contracts

Amid the gloom of the federal government shutdown and a worsening private-sector job market, there was one bit of good news for workers last week: California has banned “stay or pay” contracts that ...
Investigate Midwest

New research shows there’s a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening?

An avocado farmer inspects his trees in Fallbrook, California, in 2018. A new study confirms that commonsense heat protections (water, shade and rest breaks) help prevent workplace injuries, even as ...
The Columbian

Yemen’s Houthi rebels detain 20 U.N. workers

Houthi supporters dance Oct. 10 in Sanaa, Yemen, after the announcement that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a peace plan to pause the fighting in ...
Wired

Federal Workers Are Being Used as Pawns in the Shutdown

Federal workers have grown accustomed to a specific kind of dread over the past year. 2025 has been nonstop: First came the “fork” email from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, ...
The Cincinnati Enquirer

$20M pilot program could help attract child care workers

All too often, Ohio's child care workers can't afford child care themselves. The result: Ohio struggles to attract and retain quality child care workers, leaving fewer spots open for families seeking ...
NPR

Afghan earthquake triggers contradictory Taliban tactics on rescuing women

As earthquakes devastated parts of Afghanistan in late August, Taliban officials asked aid agencies to send more female health workers to assist female survivors. They also briefly barred female U.N.