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Don’t Know Much About Mentoring? Here’s How You Learn More

By Kenneth Quinnell This article was originally posted on the AFL-CIO website. January is National Mentoring Month 2013, and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and the Berger-Marks Foundation continue to encourage unions to expand their mentoring efforts and institutionalize mentoring as part … Continue reading

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Encouraging Diversity in Leadership: A New Handbook Describes Promising Practices for Mentoring

By Caroline Dobuzinskis Mentoring is an essential tool for moving organizations forward: young members learn new leadership skills and are given a lay of the land when it comes to their working environment. A new handbook by the Institute for … Continue reading

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A Partial Fix for Closing the Wage Gap: End Segregation in the Labor Market

by Barbara Gault So, the wage gap is still going strong, even though women have surpassed men in terms of number of higher degrees received. Women are now more likely than men to get bachelors’ degrees, master’s degrees, and Ph.D.’s. … Continue reading

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What’s at Stake for Women Workers in Wisconsin and Beyond

by Jennifer Clark The budget battles in Wisconsin, Indiana, and across the Midwestern United States have inspired a barrage of commentary about what the successful passage of the proposed state laws to strip public sector unions of their collective bargaining … Continue reading

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