Word: labors
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...bottom line is that there are large differences in starting salaries for Harvard grads directly entering the labor market and these differences are correlated with sex,” economics professors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz wrote in a joint e-mail to The Crimson...
...question is why male and female graduates going directly into the labor market end up in different sectors,” Goldin and Katz wrote...
...Since most of the gap is due to the way labor markets work, combined with inequality in family responsibilities, it is probably unrealistic to expect Harvard to have a big impact,” according to Iversen. But he added that Harvard “has a responsibility to educate about the underlying causes of gender inequality, which in turn may affect public policies...
...What we’re seeing here is an upsurge. We’re seeing the beginning of a new era,” says Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, a founder of the Student Labor Activist Movement (SLAM) and co-founder of Harvard Students for a Democratic Society. “I haven’t seen anything in my four years that was like this year...
...this stress on the dignity of service industry labor that supporters of the campaign to redefine McJob like to emphasize: "Service sector employees ... should be respected and valued, not written off," said Sir Digby Jones, former chief of the Confederation of British Industry. Skeptics suggest that the language used to describe such jobs will change when the conditions and prospects associated with those jobs change. But whether the Oxford English Dictionary changes its definition of McJob may depend on the outcome of this summer's word...