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...debate, Norway passed a controversial law in 2003 requiring that 40% of all board members of publicly listed companies had to be women. The measure paid off: company boards went from just 7% female in 2003 to 40% in January 2008. Spain, the Netherlands and France are now planning similar laws. Sweden doesn't have a quota system, but it has introduced other measures to help women combine work and family life, such as tax cuts for household and child-care services and incentives for more fathers to take parental leave to care for children. The policies have helped Swedish...
...Only time will tell if Deutsche Telekom's quota will inspire other companies to enact similar policies - or push the government to implement more family friendly laws to help women break through the glass ceiling. Until then, Germany does have at least one high-powered woman calling the shots - the one they call Chancellor...
...puberty might merely reflect the fact that teenagers are becoming more attuned to social issues than dull learning tasks: "It may be a shift in what we pay attention to and are motivated to look at that's driving this." But that would not explain Smith's mice or similar biochemical changes she has observed in tissue samples related to learning. (There's no question of motivation in a petri dish...
...fair international economic system. Africa can produce goods, but farmers in Europe and the U.S. are paid subsidies and can sell similar goods at giveaway prices. It wreaks havoc with the economies of poorer countries. It's all stacked very much against Africa. We need fair trade...
...closed courtrooms handled criminal, family law, civil law along with complex litigation and small claims case loads. Similar cuts are taking place in courts across the state. McCoy says the 100,000 Angelenos who use the courts each day can expect growing case backlogs, longer lines and delays in processing judgments. Among those losing their jobs: clerks, court reporters and supervisors. Judge Marjorie Steinberg says her family law departments are losing mental health professionals who help parents negotiate their disputes before they go to court: "You can imagine how tough that is on a family, and on the children, whose...