The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau has reported that cancellations events in Wake County have cancelled at a rate four times higher than usual over the past seven days. The cancellations, which will come as a hit to the North Carolina economy, have been traced to the fallout over …
Read More »Will Business Boycotts Kill N.C.’s Most Discriminatory Anti-LGBT Law?
WRAL reports that North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory met with the LGBT-activist organization Human Rights Campaign’s president Thursday, along with the executive director of Equality N.C. and a transgender advocate. The civil liberties groups called for the repeal of HB 2, the widely controversial bill signed by the governor last …
Read More »Obama Demands Pay Data To Monitor Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps
Now companies with 100 employees or more must disclose their pay data along with the gender, race and ethnicity of their employees, President Barack Obama ordered today. According to the president, black and Latina women are suffering the most from unequal pay practices. Disclosure of wages will make it easier …
Read More »Women in Tech: Study shows 60% of Silicon Valley women experience sexual harassment at work
The latest study from ElephantInTheValley.Com surveyed more than 200 women who have worked in Silicon Valley for at least 10 years. Their results are unequivocally negative for women in these careers. 60% of women have been sexually harassed at work, 65% of whom were subject to unwanted sexual advances from …
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