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All women — not just mothers — could benefit from more workplace flexibility
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Anja Krstic, Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management, York University, Canada Despite progress toward gender equity, many women continue to take on the majority of unpaid labour within their households, including housework and child care. On average, women spend twice as much time as men per…
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BrewDog’s ‘Equity for Punks’ fuelled its rapid rise – but may have contributed to its struggles
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ross Brown, Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Finance, University of St Andrews Graeme J Baty/Shutterstock Craft brewer and pub chain BrewDog recently closed some of its pubs in a push to cut operating costs. Given it is partly owned by private equity firm TSG Consumer…
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How the UK could reform the European convention on human rights
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joelle Grogan, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, UCD Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin Whether the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has been a debate in UK politics for years. Conservatives have long accused the convention of interfering with government policy…
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Our kids’ recess at school is essential to well-being and learning — and shouldn’t be scaled back
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Lauren McNamara, Research Scientist (Diversity and Equity in Schools), Diversity Insitute, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University The Toronto Star recently reported on a Ministry of Education memo it obtained that asks boards for input into a new regulation that “would provide school boards…
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How to improve university EDI policies so they address Jewish identity and antisemitism
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Lilach Marom, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University According to Statistics Canada, police-reported hate crimes against Jews rose by 82 per cent in 2023. In the months following Oct. 7, 2023 and the subsequent war in Gaza, university campuses across Canada became sites of…
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What to do when wasps crash your picnic – a scientist’s guide to dining safely with these insects
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL Wasps get a hankering for jam once the colony larvae pupate. victoras/Shutterstock It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea – and wasps. A lot of us have been taught to fear wasps as aggressive insects…
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How ancient viruses could help fight antibiotic resistance
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Franklin Nobrega, Associate Professor, Microbiology, University of Southampton Phages (red) attacking a bacterium (green). nobeastsofierce/Shutterstock.com If bacteria had a list of things to fear, phages would be at the top. These viruses are built to find, infect and kill them – and they have been doing…
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No clear answers on antidepressants in pregnancy
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Urban Wiesing, Professor of Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tübingen The US Food and Drug Administration recently convened a panel of experts to examine a sensitive and increasingly urgent question: should antidepressants be prescribed to women suffering from depression during pregnancy? To the surprise…
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How the internet and its bots are sabotaging scientific research
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Forshaw, Professor of Health Psychology, Edge Hill University There was a time, just a couple of decades ago, when researchers in psychology and health always had to engage with people face-to-face or using the telephone. The worst case scenario was sending questionnaire packs out to…
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Planning to take a degree taught in English when it’s not your first language? Here are some tips for success
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Una Cunningham, Professor emerita, Department of Teaching and Learning, Stockholm University fizkes/Shutterstock Every year, millions of students from all parts of the globe study for a degree through a language other than their first, usually English. In 2023, 25% of all higher education students in the…