No growth in film jobs for women: report
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LOS ANGELES  - Women working in the entertainment industry have yet to break through the "celluloid ceiling," making up just 15 percent of those in powerful behind-the-scenes roles, according to a study released Thursday by San Diego State University.
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A national women&#39;s screening programme for cervical cancer is failing to reach women, particularly Maori women, an audit has revealed.
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Increasing female feticide in India could spark a demographic crisis where fewer women in society will result in a rise in sexual violence and child abuse as well as wife-sharing, the United Nations warned.
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Seven thousand fewer girls are born in India each day than the global average would suggest, largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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In the history of motion pictures not many women directors have made an impressionable mark during the last one hundred-plus years.
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Most diversity training efforts at American companies are ineffective and even counterproductive in increasing the number of women and minorities in managerial positions, according to an analysis that turns decades of conventional wisdom, government policy and court rulings on their head.
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LOS ANGELES  - Minority actors, with  the exception of Native Americans, saw their share of  television and film roles continue to decline last year,  mirroring the overall trend of actors losing jobs to reality TV  and runaway production, according to statistics released  Wednesday by SAG.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Female scientists, engineers and product developers still face barriers in climbing the career ladder due to a lack of role models, mentors and access to networks, according to a new study.
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Most producers refrain from releasing their films in the last week of the year.
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Nearly half of all U.S. businesses are   run from home, and most companies owned by women are   home-based, according to a government report released on   Wednesday.
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NEW YORK, Feb 14  - Female scientists, engineers  and product developers still face barriers in climbing the  career ladder due to a lack of role models, mentors and access  to networks, according to a new study.
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Private employers likely added 38,000 jobs in August, far fewer than analysts had expected and the slowest rate of growth in four years, a report by a private employment service said on Wednesday.
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EXETER, England  - Women are increasingly breaking  though the glass ceiling to get seats on company boards but  only to find themselves teetering on the edge of the glass  cliff, a leading psychologist said on Monday.
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Goals set a decade ago to cut world population growth and ensure women&#39;s rights could be missed without greater resources and political will, a UN report says.
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More women are working than ever before, but most are stuck in low-wage jobs and virtually all are paid less than their male counterparts, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Thursday.
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Women are even less likely to be on the board of AIM listed companies than FTSE 100 giants, says Deloitte.
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Top women executives do slightly  better at U.S.-based healthcare and pharmaceutical companies  than in other industries, but 35 percent of big drug companies  do not have a single female director, according to a new  survey.