A long way to go, baby.
Byline: Robert Z. Nemeth COLUMN: ROBERT Z. NEMETH When Worcester City Manager Michael V. O'Brien tried to justify pay increases for top administrators, he said women in those jobs were making considerably less money than their male counterparts. Stressing the need to be "fair and...

Deaths of 14 OFWs unsolved a[euro]" Migrante.
Byline: RAUL V. GONZALES Migrante yesterday said the mysterious deaths of 14 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) abroad remain unsolved. In a press conference, Migrante International Secretary General Maita Santiago said that from Ivy Bautista to Isla Gwen, the OFWs were mostly women employed as domestic...

A strike report from the shop floor.
Around 500 women workers struck at the Tanashin Indonesia factory in February 1995. The strikers demanded food money in lieu of lunch during Ramadan,(6) which the bosses had replaced with packaged snacks. All the workers disagreed with what the bosses offered, since it was not in accordance with the labour...

The best of both worlds? Fatherhood and gender equality in Swedish paternity leave campaigns, 1976-2006.
This article explores how men's identity, capacity and responsibility as parents were understood and communicated in Swedish, government initiated, paternity leave campaigns, 1976-2006. Images of the "new father" are analyzed in relation to Swedish equal status policy, emphasizing men's and women's mutual responsibility for child care as well as...

Sugar workers get P108.3-M bonuses.
The Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) yesterday said that its Bureau of Rural Workers (BRW) distributed P108.3 million to 295,719 sugar workers in social amelioration bonuses to augment their income and cope with the economic difficulties caused by the crisis that hit the sugar industry. In...

Working with Class: Social Workers and the Politics of Middle-Class Identity.
By Daniel J. Walkowitz. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxvi + 413 pp. The goal of this study--to show changes in middle-class identity in the United States throughout the twentieth century--is carried out by analysis of the perceptions and actions of social workers...

The Bulletin.
Byline: The Register-Guard Services, events and people Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Open house from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the church, 525 N. 66th St., Springfield. Local church members will explain programs for children, teens, young adults, men, women...

EDITORIAL.
International Womens Day THE turn of the 20th century gave women a greater opportunity to participate in the political, economic, cultural, and social life of their respective nations. Their participation in international forums on practically all issues has allowed them to consolidate actions based on principles of...

Sladjana Sl: Stojanovic: Jutarnji hlad.
Nis, Yugoslavia. Kulturni Centar 2000. 129 pages. ID 89904396 "MORNING CHILL" IS a collection of fifteen short stories and one personal, poetically reflective piece by Sladjana Stojanovic (b. 1958). She has published both poetry and prose in the leading Serbian literary magazines, and the volume's opening selection,...

Two visions of paradise.
Mario Vargas Llosa El Paralso en la otra esquina. Ediciones Alfaguara, 485 pages, $19.95 In Peru in the 1950S when he was a student, Matio Vargas Llosa read Flora Tristan's selfrevealing Peregrinations d'une paria (1838), with its vivid and often scathing impressions of Peruvian society,, a book...