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...joke may be on full-timers and part-timers alike. Although the salaryman's lifetime employment is still considered the Japanese ideal, today nearly one-third of workers in Japan are part-timers like Haruko, up from 20% in 1994. The change is the result of a painful transformation that saw Japanese corporations drastically cut back on hiring while shedding tens of thousands of workers during the economically disastrous years of the 1990s and early 2000s...
...cast and the face of the HPT. Including the cast, I’d say one-third of the company is women. It’s really not as skewed as you’d think. That being said, the majority is still men. There is a Women of the Pudding organization, though. We meet every week or so, and we do so to remind ourselves that we are women in a male organization—we realized that there should be more of a forum for the issue. Women are not a silent minority...
...public institutions saw median salaries rise 4.9 percent, as compared to 4.4 percent at private institutions. The survey also highlighted trends aside from the increases in administrators’ salary. Women are more likely than ever to hold high-level administrative positions. According to the survey, females now represent one-third of all chief academic officer and provost positions and over one-third of all dean of arts and sciences positions. In particular, women are now also more likely to serve as deans in engineering departments. They now represent 11.5 percent of all engineering deans, a 5.7 percent increase from...
...equivalent of us planting 1.9 million trees. It gives us a couple of million dollars a year in savings too. Currently about 25% of our power use is green energy, and I've challenged the group to come up with new programs to get us up to one-third...
This bright new examining room is as good a place as any to study the anatomy and evolution of attitudes about abortion. About half of American women will face an unplanned pregnancy, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, and at current rates more than one-third will have an abortion by the time they are 45. Since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure in 1973, no other issue has so contorted U.S. politics or confounded values. When does life begin? Who should decide? And is there anything that can be agreed on to make the hard choices less painful? Much...