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How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being

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After lodging a sexual harassment complaint against a coworker at her job in 2009, Cynthia Watson says she was shunned in the office. Six years after reporting her sexual harassment, she got a promotion and was moved to a different department in 2015. Do people have policies in place? But it took about three years, she says.

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Tablet Sales Forecasted to Explode

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Defining Small Business Innovation 2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends Intuit Future of Small Business Resources The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs The Connected World of Entrepreneurs Disclosure Policy Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients.   The iPad is, of course, the most successful tablet so far. 

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A quick explainer for COP26 — here’s how climate negotiations work and what’s at stake

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I worked for the United Nations for several years as a law and policy adviser and have been involved in international negotiations. That treaty has since been updated, including in 2015 when nations signed the Paris climate agreement. What is COP26? F), and preferably to 1.5°C staff and other experts. degrees Celsius.

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IBM Cuts Telecommuting and the Paradox of Place

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.  While most of the coverage of this is focused on IBM's marketing department, the new policy is going to be extended to other departments at IBM.  And by 2009, when remote work was still, for most, a novelty, 40% of IBM’s 386,000 global employees already worked at home.

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

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Gore may not have gotten the policy response he wanted, but the film jump-started a national conversation about our role in global warming. . Long-standing inequalities often distort environmental politics and policies in the US. Antarctica: Ice and Sky , 2015, directed by Luc Jacquet. Not currently available in the US).

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