Word: professionalizing
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Ask policy makers to sketch their dream family, and they might come up with one something like Susie's. She and her husband are young and work hard, and they have a toddler and plans for more. They've moved inland to a regional town, where Susie works as a...
...position. Ten years ago, "you got so many you didn't have time to look at them all." Wages in several states are rising thanks to successful union claims - and bigger paychecks mean more than money, says Perth child-care worker Shannon Burns: "It shows the community we are professionals." Only a handful of 50 diploma students Burns graduated with six years ago are still in the industry. The low pay has made her consider leaving several times; she's stayed, she says, only because she loves what she does. In the Department of Child Studies at Canberra's Institute...
How did growing up in a show-business family prepare you for life as an actress? I got to see the profession for what it is. You can be blown up and blown down in a second. Sometimes I think you shouldn't have that perspective, though. Sometimes I think...
But the military can change only so much. It can't afford, for example, to compromise on health and fitness. Yet an internal report leaked last year noted that young Australians were getting fatter and that their "high incidence of nonmedical drug use ... severely limits the pool of recruitable candidates...
Now 46, Smith finds herself on the front lines of an unlikely legal rights campaign. Along with other former prostitutes, she is trying to convince Illinois state senators to sign off on a bill that would allow current and former prostitutes to sue their pimps for emotional, physical and psychological...