TOKYO —Hideko Kunii, 66, a technology expert, will join the board, and Issao Mizoguchi, a Brazilian of Japanese ancestry, who has worked with Honda’s South American operations for nearly 30 years, has been appointed an operating officer, Honda said Monday. The appointments need shareholder approval at a meeting set for June.
PARIS — President François Hollande, who had been strongly urged for more than a year to add more women to those awarded the honor of burial in the Panthéon, named two women on Friday — but also two men.
The Panthéon, a huge building in one of the oldest parts of Paris, has been the nation’s monument to worthy historical figures since the French Revolution. Of the 73 people honored there, 71 are men and include figures like the philosophers Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as Louis Braille, who invented a system of reading for the blind. Marie Curie is the only woman to make it on her own merits.
The face of corporate America is gradually being remade as women and professionals educated abroad enter into the top ranks of the largest corporations, according to a study in the latest Harvard Business Review.
Although senior executive ranks remain dominated by men, women now occupy nearly 18 percent of the top slots at Fortune 100 companies, according to the article, “Who’s Got Those Top Jobs,” which examined the career trajectories, education levels and diversity among the 1,000 top-tier executives in 2011. That is a notable change from 1980, when none of the Fortune 100 companies had women in the corner office and is also up from 2001, when 11 percent of the top-ranking jobs were held by women.
Over the years, Barefoot College members have realized that young men who learn new skills often want a certificate which will enable them to take those skills elsewhere, giving them a chance to earn what Bunker calls a market wage. Grandmothers, on the other hand, have no intention of leaving their villages and families, yet they have enormous incentive to become skilled workers, improve their villages, and earn a living wage. Barefoot College welcomes them exuberantly. Now, village grandmothers are training women from other countries to follow similar paths.
Today, according to census data, in 64 percent of U.S. marriages with children under 18, both husband and wife work. There’s more gender-fluidity when it comes to who brings in the money, who does the laundry and dishes, who drives the car pool and braids the kids’ hair, even who owns the home. A vast majority of adults under 30 in this country say that this is a good thing, according to a Pew Research Center survey: They aspire to what’s known in the social sciences as an egalitarian marriage, meaning that both spouses work and take care of the house and that the relationship is built on equal power, shared interests and friendship. But the very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages, as one sociologist calls them, may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples’ sex lives.
Đến thăm "thư viện mi-ni" của Thanh Thuận vào ngày cận kề năm mới, chúng tôi may mắn gặp được ngay "ông cụ non mê sách cổ" tại tổ ấm của mình nằm ở phường 4, TP Cao Lãnh (Đồng Tháp). Chàng trai 8X cho hay, ngoài những giờ làm việc ở Bảo tàng Đồng Tháp thì Thuận dành nhiều thời gian cho việc đi săn sách cổ nên ít ở nhà. Riêng hôm nay, do cuối năm, Thuận ở nhà để "chăm sóc" những "người bạn cao niên" của mình, trước khi tết đến xuân về.
FRANKFURT — For the first time, German public schools are offering classes in Islam to primary school students using state-trained teachers and specially written textbooks, as officials try to better integrate the nation's large Muslim minority and counter the growing influence of radical religious thinking.
In victory, Li collected her second Grand Slam singles trophy; raised her standing as the most accomplished Chinese tennis player; and closed the gap on the No. 2 ranking, held by Victoria Azarenka, to 11 points. She also collected 2.65 million Australian dollars in prize money, or roughly $2.31 million.
In Vietnam the hoopla of school groundbreakings—the dragon dancers, party officials, educators and assorted dignitaries—are commonplace, along with investors willing to pour millions of dollars into projects that often fail to launch. One reason is that a byzantine system of approvals at different levels by conflicting agencies are required not just from the MOIP but also from local People's Committees, national and local ministries of education, and others. To get these licenses you have to provide detailed plans down to the square meter per student/per classroom, and the number and nature of computers, for starters. Beyond the multi-million-dollar initial project investments, all this costs money.
Jack Monroe, a 25-year-old single mother who changed her name from Melissa because "I'm just not a Melissa," is an unlikely ambassador for the growing ranks of Britain's poor — and now one with a $40,000 book contract. Her sudden slide into poverty two years ago and her plucky online diary, A Girl Called Jack, chronicling the reality of life on the bread line have turned her into a celebrity in Britain. She is now courted by politicians, charities and even supermarket chains, and people regularly ask for her autograph.