After years of waiting tables, Danae De Vries is one step closer to achieving her lifetime dream of becoming a theater coach.
Economics & Business
Mar 27, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed hardship on millions of vulnerable Americans through unemployment and reduced work hours. And this has increased food insecurity across the nation.
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2021
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, most science and medical faculty began working from home, with women reporting a significant decrease in manuscript submissions. Women also report providing 77.6% of the childcare themselves, ...
Social Sciences
Nov 24, 2020
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Working Australians, on average, lost 167 hours of work worth more than $5,000 each and $47 billion to the economy from the start of March to the end of October due to COVID-19, new research shows.
Economics & Business
Nov 10, 2020
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Removing all of the plastic litter from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Aldabra Atoll—a ring of islands formed from coral reef in the Seychelles—would cost US $4.68 million and require 18,000 hours of labour, according ...
Environment
Sep 10, 2020
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New research from the University of Kent and the University of Birmingham has found that mass homeworking during the COVID-19 lockdown has presented significant challenges for parents, particularly mothers, but has also changed ...
Economics & Business
Jul 30, 2020
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When COVID-19 forced schools and daycares to shut down and millions of Americans to transition to working from home, some suggested the pandemic might equalize certain aspects of gender equality as men increased their household ...
Social Sciences
Jul 13, 2020
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Job losses, childcare duties and mental distress have disproportionately affected women since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to research by University of Arkansas professor Gema Zamarro.
Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2020
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A new analysis of USC's Understanding Coronavirus in America Study has found that women, particularly those without a college degree, suffered more job losses than men and bore significantly greater responsibility for child ...
Social Sciences
Jun 19, 2020
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Anyone familiar with George Orwell's novel 1984 will relate to the menace of Big Brother watching their every keystroke and mouse click. For a growing share of the workforce that dystopian reality arrived while most of us ...
Economics & Business
Jun 16, 2020
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