Achieving Gender Equity Is Our Responsibility: Leadership Matters

A legacy of leadership: achieving our Centennial Vision.

Penelope A. Moyers President of the American Occupational Therapy Association Iwas presenting on the West Coast and had to make a connecting flight through Cincinnati. The weather was very bad, which meant the flight home was delayed. Everyone in the gate area was tense and irritable. Finally we loaded onto the last plane out for the night, one of those small regional planes where you can barel...

Female leadership and gender equity: Evidence from plant closure

We use unique worker-plant matched panel data to measure differences in wage changes experienced by workers displaced from closing plants. We observe larger losses among women than men, comparing workers who move from the same closing plant to the same new firm. However, we find a significantly smaller gap in hiring firms with female leadership. The results are strongest among women who are dis...

Information Privacy: What is Our Responsibility?

Breast Cancer Is Our Global Responsibility.

geted agents. However, breast cancer awareness, screening, current therapy strategies, availability of molecular typing as well as access to new treatment options differ substantially between different nations. We are convinced that it is therefore also our responsibility to ensure that patients in other parts of the world are not being left behind. At present, even simple steps would help a lo...

Our Responsibility?

have to take the Broad Street line and change at Willesden or go up to town by bus. The District trains won't be running for some while." A fair-haired woman standing nearby murmured: "How inconsiderate," and then laughed nervously, probably regretting her words. I thought of the man or woman lying on the track, perhaps killed outright, dying or maimed, for the station official would not really...