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Fire up your career: Gains are slow for women in construction
Despite recent gains in gender equality in many male-dominated fields, few women have entered the world of construction. (Scripps News)
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Two years of childcare should be legal right, O’Gorman says
There should be a legal right to two years of early childhood care and education (ECCE), the children’s minister has said. On Thursday, Roderic O’Gorman said he wanted to ensure access to ECCE for every child in every part of the country...
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Women drove labor participation until recently. Here's why some say the numbers are stalling
One women's advocate told Scripps News the loss of pandemic-era programs will affect how much women can participate in the labor force. (Scripps News)
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Daddy Stroller Social Club in Dallas promotes fatherhood and brotherhood
For a couple hours, a couple times a month, you can find dozens of Dallas dads pushing, carrying and sometimes chasing their kids, all in pursuit of finding a community. (Scripps News)
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Starmer visits primary school in Teeside to announce Labour's plans for children's dentistry
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, alongside shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, visited the Whale Hill Primary School in Teesside, Middlesbrough, to announce the party's plan to tackle children's dentistry and clear Tories backlog with...
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Sir Keir Starmer makes pledge for extra 100,000 childcare places
Labour has set out plans to turn primary school classrooms into 3,300 new nurseries to create an extra 100,000 childcare places. Sir Keir Starmer said a shortage of childcare meant parents were being held back in their careers and...
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Rishi Sunak visits a childcare centre on the latest stop on the campaign trail
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives at Imagination Childcare, in Swindon, Wiltshire, while on the General Election campaign trail.
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives at Imagination Childcare, in Swindon, Wiltshire, while on the General Election campaign trail.
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Taoiseach welcomes plans to decarbonise Guinness brewery in Dublin
Taoiseach Simon Harris welcomes plans by Diageo to decarbonise its Guinness Brewery in Dublin. Mr Harris said he hoped to use this year's budget to help people enjoy "a pint at the end of the week" through tax reductions and childcare...
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Professor explains barriers women in Ireland in entering the workforce
Professor Helen Russell outline the barriers women on the island of Ireland face in entering the workforce and Garance Hingre outlines the differences between the female workforce north and south of the border. At the launch of a report...
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Sunak visits nursery in Hartlepool as new childcare policy announced
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visits Aldersyde Day Nursery, in Hartlepool, as he announced the rollout of the Government's new childcare plan which allows working parents 15 hours of tax-payer funded care for two-year-olds. The offer will...
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Yousaf warns against using new hate crime law to make ‘vexatious’ complaints
Scotland’s First Minister has warned against using a controversial new hate crime law to make “vexatious” complaints. Concerns have been raised about the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act, which takes effect on Monday, and its...
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Full interview with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan
Interview with Education Secretary Gillian Keegan. Keegan answers questions on the Governments new free childcare plan, as well as on sewage, immigration and the NHS.
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Education Secretary responds to doubts over new childcare expansion scheme
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan responds to doubts over her new childcare expansion scheme, backlash from NHS dissatisfaction and difficulties on the issue of immigration. From April, working parents of two-year-olds will get 15 hours...
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Humza Yousaf serves an early Christmas dinner to elderly residents at risk of loneliness in Dundee
Humza Yousaf served an early Christmas dinner to elderly residents at risk of loneliness in Dundee. The First Minister was put to work by Dundee United’s Community Trust to serve soup, turkey and pudding to football fans at Tannadice...
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Michelle O’Neill speech at Sinn Fein ard fheis conference
Sinn Fein’s leader in Northern Ireland has told the party’s annual ard fheis conference that “the old Orange State” with a unionist majority is “long gone”. In her keynote speech Michelle O’Neill said the results of May’s assembly...
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High Inflation Rates Are Making Child Care Costs Rise
Parents are feeling not only the rising costs of housing, feeding and clothing their families but also the inflation bite of higher day care bills.
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Gender Economist Katica Roy on Unemployment Report
Gender economist Katica Roy, CEO and Founder of Pipeline Equity, discusses the latest unemployment numbers on 'Bloomberg Markets'
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The “Visible Invisible Workforce”
Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, sits down with Battleground host Amanda Litman to talk about the critical need to pay a living wage to those caring for our most vulnerable — children, elderly and...
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President To Promote American Families Plan In Illinois
President Biden will visit the Illinois county former President Trump won in 2020.
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Women Retiring With Less Savings Than Men: Advocacy Group
Jul.23 -- On this edition of "Bloomberg Equality," Cate Wood, national chair of Australian advocacy group Women in Super, says the coronavirus crisis is further widening the gender gap of retirement savings. She speaks with Haidi...
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What's Behind The Nation's Gender Wage Gap?
Women's wages lag behind men's in every state.
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AAF's Holtz-Eakin on Upcoming U.S. Jobs Report
On Balance of Power, American Action Forum's president Douglas Holtz-Eakin on the upcoming U.S. jobs report .
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There Remains Underlying Damage to the U.S. Labor Market: Jed Kolko
Dec.03 -- U.S. employment gains probably slowed only modestly in November despite a record surge of coronavirus cases that still threatens to limit or even reverse hiring in coming months. Jed Kolko, chief economist at Indeed, speaks...