Labor unions help employees take more paid maternity leave
Union-represented working mothers are at least 17 percent more likely to use paid maternity leave than comparable nonunion working mothers.
Union-represented working mothers are at least 17 percent more likely to use paid maternity leave than comparable nonunion working mothers.
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The unearthed bones of Mukawaryu, Japan's largest complete dinosaur skeleton, have now been prepared and pieced together, giving us a fuller and clearer image of the 72 million-year-old dinosaur.
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Many women in doctoral degree programs in fields like engineering and physics are in a class of their own—and that's not a good thing.
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For the first time, a powerful "wind" of molecules has been detected in a galaxy located 12 billion light-years away. Probing a time when the universe was less than 10 percent of its current age, University of Texas at Austin ...
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 13.5% of the global population but less than 1% of global research output. In 2008, Africa produced 27,000 published papers – the same number as the Netherlands.