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How Women Leaders Are Designing A Workplace Equitable For All
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How Women Leaders Are Designing A Workplace Equitable For All

Join us for an enlightening Tweet Chat session on "How women leaders are designing a workplace equitable for all". Our panel of esteemed female leaders will share their experiences, insights, and strategies for creating an equitable work environment. We'll explore topics such as leadership styles, and women empowerment in male-dominant industries like tech. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from the best and be a part of the conversation. Join us on 7th March 2023 at 11:00 am EST using the hashtag #LeadingWithChange. See you there! #GenderEquality #RewritingRulesm Start Your Free Outgrow Trial Now!
Helping Make Society More Respectful And Equitable – Nurturing Dads Raise Emotionally Intelligent Kids
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Helping Make Society More Respectful And Equitable – Nurturing Dads Raise Emotionally Intelligent Kids

Kevin Shafer, Brigham Young University When my oldest son, now nearly 13, was born in July of 2008, I thought I could easily balance my career and my desire to be far more engaged at home than my father and his generation were. I was wrong. Almost immediately, I noticed how social policies, schools and health care systems all make it difficult for dads to be highly involved and engaged at home. Contradictory expectations about work and family life abound. As a fatherhood researcher with four kids of my own, I am convinced that fathers are transformative figures for children, families and communities. But a man’s mere presence, paycheck and willingness to punish misbehaving children is not nearly enough. Many of the benefits of fathering for children come from dads being nurturing, lovi...
A Big Problem For Equitable COVID-19 Vaccination – The Cold Supply Chain Can’t Reach Everywhere
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A Big Problem For Equitable COVID-19 Vaccination – The Cold Supply Chain Can’t Reach Everywhere

To mitigate health inequities and promote social justice, coronavirus vaccines need to get to underserved populations and hard-to-reach communities. There are few places in the U.S. that are unreachable by road, but other factors – many rural hospitals can’t afford ultralow-temperature freezers or might not have reliable electricity, for example – present challenges. However, with government will and resources, these could be overcome. That is not true for much of the rest of the world. One of us, Tim Ford, is a global health researcher who has done a lot of international work on water and health where the cold supply chain cannot go, most recently in rural Haiti. The other, Charles Schweik, studies how the spread of innovations – both digital and physical – can solve pressing societal ...