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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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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has invested billions into his goal of creating a functioning and high-res metaverse , but it’s unclear of whether it will pay off, as some experts have said the early hype around the metaverse and lack of game-changing products have since turned consumers off. billion in 2020, and $4.5 billion in 2019.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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In a survey published in 2020’s “ Building the On-Demand Workforce ” report from the Harvard Business School and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 60% of business leaders said they expected to increasingly “rent” “borrow” or “share” talent with other companies. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports.

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How to Refresh Your Failed New Year’s Resolutions

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Why New Year’s resolutions fail One reason we may fail our New Year’s resolutions is because we might not be making the right goals. It’s also possible that we’re not making goals in a way that draws on our motivations and sense of self. Is your failed goal actually someone else’s?

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Offering Remote Work Options Creates a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplace Environment

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2019). . 2020). . 2020; Roberts et al., 2020). . According to one report, 133 million people in the U.S. are living with a chronic illness – remote work may be able to help them cope with their illnesses and stay in the workforce. DeFelice, M., But Remote Work Does Still have Some Drawbacks . 27.5 – 46.9%

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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 trillion.”

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

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The company’s website states, “Our goal is to create a team that is caring and motivated to improve the accounting profession and positively change the lives of accountants.” The Wait Until 8th movement is all about community,” says founder Brooke Shannon in a 2019 interview with Institute for Family Studies. “We

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