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Mass Shootings Prompt Businesses to Train Staff on Warning Signs  Claims JournalNEW YORK -- At a four-hour meeting last month, Michelle Abdow's staffers got to experience some of the sights, sounds and even smells they could encounter.

Racism and Sexism Combine To Shortchange Working Black Women  Center For American ProgressAuthor's note: CAP uses “Black” and “African American” interchangeably throughout many of our products. We chose to capitalize “Black” in order to reflect that ...

Shootings raise level of alarm at small businesses  Washington PostShootings in public places have made business owners aware that they and their staffers need to be educated about workplace violence.

Mexican women are angry about rape, murder and government neglect — and they want the world to know  PRIWearing green bandannas and dousing police in pink glitter, Mexican women on Aug. 16 staged a furious protest in Mexico City after a 17-year-old girl reported ...

Mexican women are angry about rape, murder and government neglect — and they want the world to know  PRIWearing green bandannas and dousing police in pink glitter, Mexican women on Aug. 16 staged a furious protest in Mexico City after a 17-year-old girl reported ...

New York Workplace Harassment Laws  The National Law ReviewOn August 12, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed new legislation amending the New York State Human Rights Law NYSHRL changing the State ...

Taking the Lead on Broadway  The New York TimesIn the theater world, women are wielding more power as producers.

Helen Clark: Gender and health, a political choice with major returns on investment - The BMJ  The BMJIf politicians have the will to address gender inequality in global healthcare provision they will reap huge financial awards, as well as moral and social victories, ...

Extreme Risk Protection Orders Intended to Prevent Mass Shootings  Annals of Internal MedicineUrgent, individualized interventions to reduce firearm access, such as extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs, colloquially known as “red flag” orders), provide a ...

Extreme Risk Protection Orders Intended to Prevent Mass Shootings  Annals of Internal MedicineUrgent, individualized interventions to reduce firearm access, such as extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs, colloquially known as “red flag” orders), provide a ...

Can 'red flag' laws help prevent mass shootings? 21 cases suggest the answer is yes  FierceHealthcareRecent mass shootings have raised the question of whether so-called “red flag” laws, which allow firearms to be temporarily seized from people who are ...

What to Know in Washington: Democrats to Rely on Youth in 2020  Bloomberg GovernmentThe election prospects for Democrats in 2020 will turn on whether the party can keep fanning the fires that drove young voters to the ballot box last year.

High court should hear case on site skirting gun background checks  American Medical AssociationThe AMA and the Wisconsin Medical Society are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a case involving a website that facilitates illegal firearms sales.

State of the Unions  The New YorkerCaleb Crain on what happened to America's labor movement.

State of the Unions  The New YorkerDo you have rights at work? Franklin Delano Roosevelt thought you did. In 1936, while trying to haul America's economy out of the bog that the free market had ...

Before the Revolution review – a beguiling anatomy of Egypt's uprising  The GuardianAhmed El Attar's bruising two-hander dives into the long lead-up to 2011 in an attempt to determine what causes mass revolt.

'It's Your Own Fault': Teenage Sexual Assault Victim Fights To Break Russia's Culture Of Victim-Blaming  Radio Free Europe/ Radio LibertyDarya Ageny stabbed a man who attempted to rape her. Facing years in jail for inflicting grievous bodily harm, she has now launched a campaign to help ...

Ottawa commits money to bring men into fight for gender equality  CBC.caThe federal government announced more than $550000 in funding on Friday to encourage men and boys to participate in the work for gender equality.

Trump's Immigration Crackdown Is Quietly Targeting Labor Protections  TruthoutPunitive policies and a culture of fear are preventing immigrants from reporting labor trafficking and abuse.

Why Modern Women are Making their Careers their Top Priority  Eleven MyanmarBy: INQUIRER.net BrandRoom Rowena Gatchalian is a Senior Associate Vice-President for a large retail banking group in the country. She is earning a hefty ...