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The significance of women’s health is increasingly acknowledged in the modern workplace

Workplace Insight

has seen a doubling of maternal mortality rates from 2002 to 2018, with a significant racial disparity affecting Black women. For example, a recent survey of companies in the UK found that 47 percent have no supportive policies for employees struggling with fertility ( FertilityFamily , 2023).

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

All of those policies, procedures, norms—written and unwritten—kind of control the culture,” says Donovan’s business partner and co-author Mark Kaplan. “If As of 2019 , Minnesota is home to 6% of immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Edwards has provided guidance and expertise for several dominant health care systems, including HCA Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare, and works closely with executives on organizational and operational assignments, such as compliance issues, operation strategies, policy changes, capital funding, patient safety and administrative procedures.

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Shining a Light on Black Assistants: It’s Not Black & White

Bonnie Low Kramen

I wrote an article in 2018 called “ Times Up for the Boss ” and I raise these ideas in our Be the Ultimate Assistant workshops. What I have thought about quite a lot is the word “boss,” which is derived from the Dutch word “baas.” It translates to the word “master,” as in “master and slave.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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