Mentors, School
"BEST Academy student Gs3 Harris told ABC
News he had no idea what to expect when he walked off the bus on August 1.
The graduating senior said his first
reaction when seeing the dozens of men cheering was, "Oh snap! All these
people came here to see us?"
Harris, 17, said one man even pulled him
aside and said, "You look like you're going somewhere. You'll be famous
soon."
"That was kind of special because
not too many people think that of me," said the student, who plans to
study mechanical engineering at Georgia State University when he graduates.
"It was a boost in morale."
Ray Singer, the program director for 100
Black Men of Atlanta and the liaison for the school, said the morning also
benefited the mentors.
"At the end of the day, all of our
volunteers walked away with just as much as experience as the student," he
told ABC News. "It gives them an opportunity to have some real dialogue
with students about careers ... and they walk away feeling uplifted.""
Work, Life Balance
"Starting in July 2018,
Oregon will require big companies in retail, hospitality, and food service to
give employees schedules at least a week ahead of time, and offer stress pay to
workers who don’t get a 10-hour break between shifts. By 2020, employers
covered by the law will have to hand out schedules two weeks in advance.
Oregon is the first
state to pass such a law, which grows out of a vibrant municipal movement to
humanize low-wage fast food and mall jobs that can no longer be thought of as
stopgap positions, if they ever were. The median age of a retail employee, for
example, is 39. According to a New York state study, most retail workers are
breadwinners. It's hard to
spend time with your family if you never know when you get off work.
San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City all
have similar policies in place. The Oregon bill may be a sign that the movement
is about to jump from cities to states. In December, the Illinois attorney
general announced that
a group of large retailers including Aeropostale and Disney would stop using
on-call scheduling after an investigation. A handful of other blue-state AGs
are also looking into it. In 2015, Elizabeth Warren introduced a
fair scheduling bill in the Senate."
Women,
War, Peace & Security
"Mary Raum, a national
security affairs professor at the war college, said she's trying to amplify
their agenda so they don't lose traction, and she'd like to see reform in
higher education so there's a solid curriculum for women, peace and security
issues.
"It's imperative
for global peace and security," said Raum, who planned the conference.
Rosa Brooks, a professor
at Georgetown Law, said empowering women is not about "helping
women."
"It's about helping
all of us," she said. "It's about winning wars instead of losing,
having peace instead of conflict. It's about succeeding instead of
failing."
Research shows that the
likelihood that peace agreements will last longer increases when women
are involved in
negotiating them, and gender inequality is one of the top predictors of
conflict within and between states, said Brooks, an expert on national security
and the changing nature of warfare."
Women,
Technology
"Hidden Figures, the historical drama about three black women who worked at NASA in the 1960s, has many plaudits to its name.
The critically acclaimed film
starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe was nominated for
Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars. It was a box office hit, earning more than $230 million worldwide on a budget
of $25 million. Its recounting of how Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and
Mary Jackson broke racial and gender barriers during the height of the civil
rights movement to help send mankind into space has been lauded for its deft
portrayal of an important true story.
And now it has broken a barrier of
its own by inspiring the US State Department to launch a first-of-its-kind,
publicly funded educational exchange program for women.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a
new program called #HiddenNoMore will invite 50 women from 50 different
countries to participate in a cultural and educational exchange aimed at
cultivating the efforts and achievements of women in the science, technology,
engineering, and math fields."
Business, Leadership
"The more we
influence ourselves to be ourselves, the more people like us. And we like
ourselves more, too.
Leadership is about influence. The most
important person to influence is yourself. Because that’s true, the question
is, How can we best influence ourselves?
Here are five ways the smartest
people do this."
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