Given that Wal-Mart's business model is borrowed heavily from the supply chain management system pioneered by the same textile industry that brought you the Triangle Fire and Rana Plaza collapse, it's hardly surprising that the company would then import the intimidation of pregnant women so...
women and work
On April 14, 1975, the Bunker Hill Mining Company in Kellogg, Idaho announced a new policy in response to worries about female workers suffering reproductive problems due to lead exposure..
Today is Equal Pay Day. Pay equality has still never been achieved in this country. Some facts, thanks to the National Women's Law Center: On average, women are paid only.
On February 13, 1845, the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association forced the state of Massachusetts to hold hearings on reducing the work day in the state's textile mills to 10 hours a day. The LFLRA had collected 2000 signatures to put pressure on the textile...
Good news for working women who become pregnant: While New Jersey and New York City were the latest to pass workplace protections for pregnant workers, a new state has taken.