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True Gender Equality Is Still 151 Years Away—Despite Recent Milestones

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18, 2019, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch completed the 221st spacewalk in support of the International Space Station’s maintenance and assembly, and marked the first all-female spacewalk in history. Nearly 60 years later, on Oct. Charpentier and Doudna received the Nobel for their work on the technology of genome editing.

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Betting His Company’s Future On The Metaverse

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billion in 2020, and $4.5 billion in 2019. Apple is reportedly building out its own VR/AR headset that could launch later this year or in early 2023, and Microsoft has its own Hololens mixed reality headset. . He also showed off prototypes the company has developed and continues to work on. .

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Freelancers Under Fire: Legislation Threatens Gig Economy Workers

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The original PRO Act passed in the House of Representatives in 2020, and then again in 2022. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2023 (PRO Act) has the potential to completely alter labor law in the United States. The state law was passed in September of 2019 and was later enacted in January of 2020.

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When It Come to Employee Mental Health, These 10 Companies Are Setting the Example

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The Wait Until 8th movement is all about community,” says founder Brooke Shannon in a 2019 interview with Institute for Family Studies. “We Nearly 4,000 employees have been trained since this launched in 2020. AT&T Mission AT&T first brought mental health services on-site to their Texas headquarters in February 2020.

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More UK Workers Are Leaving The Workforce Due To Long-Term Illness

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Since 2019, those who cited these factors as the reason for leaving their jobs grew by around 25% — and it’s expected to stay at worrying levels as a recession approaches. The data also indicates it will be one of the only major developed countries to see its employment remain below pre-pandemic levels at the beginning of 2023. . “We

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WeWork’s Potential Bankruptcy: What Will Be The Effect On Office Vacancy Rates?

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percent in San Francisco, up from 10 per cent in late 2020, according to data from CBRE.” In the first half of 2023, the delinquency rate rose from 2.75% to 4%. This raises questions for U.S. real estate as well as U.S. commercial banks. “In the second quarter of the year, average vacancy rates hit 31.6 real estate, U.S.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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of employer businesses in 2019—a growth of 16.7% million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” The 2019 “ State of Women-Owned Businesses Report ” from American Express finds women-owned businesses “now represent 42% of all businesses—nearly 13 million—employing 9.4

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