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Goldman Sachs to pay £170m to settle gender discrimination lawsuit

The original claimants were former Goldman employees Cristina Chen-Oster (right) and Shanna Orlich (left), who first sued the company in 2010. ....

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Goldman Sachs to pay £170m to settle gender discrimination lawsuit

The original claimants were former Goldman employees Cristina Chen-Oster (right) and Shanna Orlich (left), who first sued the company in 2010. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20210811 16:09:00

The youngest is two. many have seen their loved ones being killed. they ve had to leave their dead behind to save their own lives. many here have fled from kunduz in north afghanistan, which fell to the taliban on sunday. we d met these men in the city when we were there, four weeks ago. ....

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'Why Loiter?' Ten years have passed since the seminal book on women alone in cities was published


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As a pre-teen in the mid-1990s and the early naughties, every time I stepped out to buy something from the nearby confectionary store, I would be extremely aware of myself when walking. This was Kanpur, my hometown and an erstwhile industrial city in north India. From an early age I had been told to monitor, censor and diminish my outings as much as possible. I was a girl and repeatedly reminded of being one by elders.
These outdoor trips, however short, were the headlines of my days and nights then. After all these years, not much has changed and I understand that performing those walks was my instinctive reaction to being repeatedly told that I shouldn’t be outdoors. I subconsciously wanted to unmake the rules and create an act out of the few minutes I got out be outside. ....

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