what do you think are the chances you can get an acquittal? i would not comment. reporter: she was detained on february 17th. prosecutors claiming she was carrying two vaping cartridges with about .07 oil a crime in russia that can carry a sentence of up to ten years in praise colony. the u.s. considers her being rong wrongfully detained. wrongful detention is unacceptable where ever it occurs. the united states government, at the very high e est levels is working hard to bring mi miss griner as well as all wrongfully detained u.s. citizens safely home. reporter: her trial starts as tensions between the u.s. and russia have reached a boiling point. not just over rusrussia s invas of ukraine. the u.s. is calling for immediate release of former marine paul whelan who was sentenced to sf years. they also said the trial was not political. the facts say a prominent athlete was detained in possession of prohibits substances that contained drugs. reporter: after about
being recognized part of the long fight for gender pay equality. a founding member of the student violent coordinating committee and organized civil rights campaigns like the sit-ins. also apple s co-founder steve jobs is being recognized. he changed the way the world worked, communicated and watched movies. president biden will hold a ceremony for them next week. we want to welcome ella rose born at is 10:59 this morning weighing 6 pounds 6 ounces. she is so precious. i can t believe veronica looks as remarkable as she did. the lead is sending love and
Press release content from PR Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation.
Advancing Women in Workplace: Barilla Wins 2021 Catalyst Award
January 28, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ 2021 marks another significant milestone in the Diversity and Inclusion journey of the Barilla Group. The Italian family-owned food company will receive the premiere 2021 Catalyst Award on March 17-18, 2021, for initiatives that have accelerated progress for women and increased inclusion for all within its organizations around the world. The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is the other awarded company.
ADVERTISEMENT
Founded in 1962, Catalyst is the leading nonprofit organization working with some of the world’s most powerful CEOs and leading companies expanding opportunities for women in business globally. For more than 30 years Catalyst has bestowed the Catalyst Awards to recognize exceptional initiatives that corporations have taken to accelerate and advance women into
Stefania Fabrizio, Vivian Malta, Marina M. Tavares
New research has presented evidence that the gender gap in labour force participation in US has expanded during COVID-19 (Alon et al. 2020). This negative development is attributed to two factors – the disproportionate impact that the pandemic has had on sectors that tend to employ more women, and the increase in family caregiving responsibilities due to kindergarten and school closures that lay on working mothers’ shoulders. Both reasons keep women away from the labour force (Landivar et al. 2020).
The US is hardly the average labour market, however, both due to its size and its flexible employment regulation. We hence expand the analysis to several other advanced economies that have readily available data, by looking for trends in the labour force participation by women. We find that women’s labour force participation has declined during COVID-19 in Canada, Japan, South Korea, and the US, while it has been resilient to the