Employment
ER: She Wore the Union Label; A Review of She Was One of Us
Even during wartime she spoke for the right of all workers to join unions.ER’s outspoken support gave labor unions what political scientists call "elite legitimation." Labor unions had been around for a long time but only during FDR’s administration did they acquire mainstream respectability. To this, the first lady make a major contribution. more »
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day; Are 70% of Graduate Engineers Foreign?
Another way of looking at what a civil engineer does is to see it as a role of reducing complex ideas initiated by policymakers, chief executives, and other such people into concrete reality. And WEPAN works to transform culture in engineering education to attract, retain, and graduate women more »
HBS's Working Knowledge, Terror at the Taj
"Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees," says Deshpandé. "In the interview, the vice chairman of the company says that they knew all the back exits — the natural human instinct would be to flee. These are people who instinctively did the right thing. And in the process, some of them, unfortunately, gave their lives to save guests." A dozen employees died more »
Short in Stature, Tall in Tone
It wasn’t the reading of my weight that terrified me. After a lifetime of dieting (skip birth to age 10), for the past half dozen years I’ve held steady at 104. Poundage was not the problem. It was the ruler she was about to pull up, then down, then down again, to measure my height. more »
