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Millennials Aren’t All Badly Off, But There Is A Growing Rich-Poor Gap

The Horizons Tracker

Instead, they grapple with a “vast and increasing” wealth gap stemming from the uneven financial outcomes tied to diverse life and career paths, compared to their Boomer predecessors. The crucial intergenerational shift has been in how different family and career patterns are rewarded,” the researchers explain.

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Can Job Sharing Boost Gender Diversity In Boardrooms?

The Horizons Tracker

The example provides a positive illustration of the possibilities, with the authors believing the function allowed each to play to their unique strengths and work effectively together. “Increased confidence can help to counter the stereotype of a lack of confidence in pursuing a climb up the career ladder,” the authors explain.

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What does the gig economy mean for independent workers?

HR Digest

Gig workers are sometimes called “ moonlighters ” (especially if they have another primary job) because their additional temporary positions allow them to have more diverse sources of income rather than relying on one regular employer. In a gig economy, benefits, resources, workspace, and training are saved. Gig Positions.

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Outlaw Discrimination on the Basis of Height and Weight Says New Jersey

HR Digest

The Garden state hopes to set an example as it presents a new bill in the senate that will allow legal action against discrimination on the basis of height and weight. Daniel Freeman of Britain’s University of Oxford, who led a study on height discrimination stated that “being tall is associated with greater career and relationship success.

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Tear Down This Wall: 4 Ways to Fix Business and Tech’s ‘Women Problem’

Strategy Driven

Tech, for example, has been unable to support women at any level. s progress on gender diversity issues has slipped below the global median. Governments, stock exchanges, and industry groups in Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand, for example, are very active on gender diversity issues.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds. CMI’s proposal has already been picked up in the media and some key influencers.

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Are Older Entrepreneurs The Best Entrepreneurs?

The Horizons Tracker

Similar tales emerge from teams as diverse as Bill Clinton’s election team, the early Apple team and even the scientists that converged on Los Alamos to create the atomic bomb. A good example was the knitting group that met in the library and made a lot of scarves,” the researchers explain. ” The wisdom of elders.