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To Close Gender Gap, Fight Pay Secrecy
Pay secrecy contributes to the gender pay gap, say researchers.
On average, women make 18% less than their male counterparts.
Over the last decade, more than a dozen states plus the District of Columbia have enacted legislation banning pay secrecy policies workplace rules that prohibit workers from discussing wages and salaries. The laws aim to eliminate a means by which employers can discriminate intentionally or not against women in the pay setting.
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In a recently published Quillette article, political science Prof. Frances Widdowson described the difficulties that Canadian university administrators face when they seek to âIndigenizeâ their schools. Everyone in academia seems to agree that Indigenization is an urgent task, but the particulars are typically ill-defined.
As Widdowson reports in a newly published book, these efforts at Indigenization (sometimes referred to as âdecolonizationâ) comprise a combination of symbolic gestures, ramped-up affirmative-action programs, mandatory anti-racism courses and demands that Indigenous folklore be accorded epistemological stature on par with science. At Concordia University in Montreal, for instance, a dozen researchers are collaborating on a project called âDecolonizing Light,â whose aim is to âinvestigate the reproduction of colonialism in and through physics and higher physics education.â Our scientific understanding of light
With more than 200 entries, the 2021 Battlefords Kiwanis Music Festival’s program is shaping into place. Yes, there are many COVID safety restrictions to navigate, but there are many positives to celebrate as well. Though there will not an in-person audience for performers, live streaming will allow family and friends from far and wide to view performances. Participants will have the opportunity to enjoy the professional stage and concert grand piano the Dekker Centre offers. Participants will follow strict protocols, wearing masks whenever they enter or exit the performance space. Vocalists and those playing woodwind-type instruments will be allowed to remove masks while performing with the use of a plexiglass barrier for added safety.
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Guy Felicella says a small cash honorarium or coffee gift card always helped draw him into in a research study or public-health campaign during the two decades he spent living on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where he once struggled to fuel a heroin and cocaine addiction.
So he had no issue last week handing $5 each to the roughly 100 people a group of public-health nurses vaccinated as part of a COVID-19 immunization team that blitzed the neighbourhood looking for those who had missed recent pop-up clinics.