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Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science, & Technology. Explicit stereotypes or attitudes are opinions that people consciously think about and assess.

Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science, & Technology

These can be shared verbally. Implicit stereotypes [1] are automatic and involuntary associations that people make between a social group (i.e. “men”) and a domain or attribute (i.e. “science” or “math” ). A person can have different implicit and explicit stereotypes. Download as a .pdf Women are underrepresented among working engineers [2]. Working female engineers feel less committed to their job and less valued by their organization compared to their male counterparts.

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To be filed. Case Study: Boeing 737. The typical Amazon employee makes less than you think. Amazon (AMZN) disclosed in a filing Wednesday that the median pay for its employees was just $28,446 in 2017. Put another way: half of Amazon's employees earned less than that amount. The underwhelming figure was made public as part of a new rule put into effect this year by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring companies to disclose the pay ratio between their CEOs and overall employees. Jeff Bezos, Amazon's CEO and the world's richest man, received a total compensation of about $1.68 million last year -- or 59 times the median Amazon employee compensation. Call it a tale of two Amazons: those who work in technical roles and those who work in warehouses and grocery stores.

Amazon said in a statement provided to CNN that the median pay includes "part-time, full-time, and seasonal jobs in over 50 countries. " Amazon also stressed additional benefits like health plans, job training and "generous parental leave. " Related: Amazon reveals it has more than 100 million Prime members.

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How an ethnic-sounding name may affect the job hunt. You may have a string of prestigious degrees and years of experience in Canada, but potential employers may never get that far into your résumé if your name sounds foreign, a new study has found.

How an ethnic-sounding name may affect the job hunt

An underlying reason appears to be subconscious discrimination, the researchers suggest. "What we think is happening is recruiters have to go through piles of résumés very quickly. If they see an unfamiliar name, they may get an initial first reaction that they have concerns about whether the person has the social and language skills the job requires," said Philip Oreopoulos, assistant professor of economics at the University of Toronto and co-author of the study.

Story continues below advertisement Even if the résumé clearly addresses such concerns of hiring managers, "sometimes they can't shake that first reaction," he said. The study (titled "Why do some employers prefer to interview Matthew, but not Samir? ") It's a dilemma with no easy solutions for job applicants, Dr. Millennials Are at Higher Risk for Mental Health Issues. This May Be Why. Millennials are experiencing higher levels of anxiety, depression, and thoughts of suicide than generations past.

Millennials Are at Higher Risk for Mental Health Issues. This May Be Why

Many reasons have been offered but none definitive, until now. A new study finds that this generation carries much higher levels of perfectionism, and that these elevated expectations may be to blame. British researchers came to these conclusions, which were published in the journal Psychological Bulletin.

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(1) Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim. Scandals suggest standards have slipped in corporate America - Corporate crises. Harassment in Canadian workplaces. College admissions scandal: How will their kids be affected? They're facing questions about the fates of students involved and whether they knew about their parents' alleged acts.

College admissions scandal: How will their kids be affected?

And, at a time of year when colleges are whittling down the mountain of applications and sending out acceptance letters, they're having to look for prospective students who might be connected to the scandal. William Rick Singer, the plot's accused mastermind, allegedly told prospective clients that he created a "side door" for wealthy families to get their children into top US colleges. Singer was paid roughly $25 million by parents to help their children get into the schools, the US attorney said. While the names of the students involved have not been released, universities are distancing themselves from coaches identified in the scandal and scrambling to contain the fallout from a scandal that raises questions about whether qualified students were denied entry to accommodate children of the rich and famous.

"The investigation found that Mr. University of San Diego. Wells Fargo timeline: Bank's 20-month nightmare. Wells Fargo may face an angry crowd at its shareholder meeting Tuesday in Iowa.

Wells Fargo timeline: Bank's 20-month nightmare

Investors are pushing proposals to rein in Wells Fargo (WFC), and activists are organizing protests slamming the bank for countless consumer abuses. They have a lot to complain about. Over the past year and a half, the bank has admitted to creating fake accounts, hitting customers with unfair mortgage fees and charging people for car insurance they didn't need. When Money Gets in the Way of Corporate Ethics. The two-year Wells Fargo horror story just won't end. Wells Fargo can't wake up from the nightmare that began exactly two years ago.

The two-year Wells Fargo horror story just won't end

What sounded at first like a run-of-the-mill bank settlement — a $185 million payment to atone for "sales practices" — has morphed into a cascade of scandals that has rocked one of America's most storied banks to its core. It started in September 2016, when Wells Fargo shocked the nation and announced it had fired 5,300 workers over several years for creating millions of fake accounts. Wells Fargo (WFC) has since replaced longtime CEO John Stumpf, discarded the wildly unrealistic sales goals that led to the bad behavior and apologized for mistreating workers. The bank hired the respected Elizabeth Duke to lead its board, installed fresh directors and pledged in a splashy marketing campaign to clean up its act. New CEO Tim Sloan vowed to uncover mistakes of the past. Yet America's third-largest bank remains in turmoil from the fake-account controversy — and other scandals keep emerging.

Eight scandals that ended college presidencies. College admissions scandal: How will their kids be affected? Where Our Ethics Come From. Each individual's set of ethics provides the fundamental principles or beliefs by which that person distinguishes, consciously after some thought or unconsciously and seemingly by instinct, between morally acceptable and morally unacceptable behavior in that person's eyes.

Where Our Ethics Come From

If every person's ethics sprang from the same principles or rested on the same source documents—perhaps the Bible or the Koran for ethical principles governing their personal lives, and the Uniform Commercial Code or a global code of business ethics promulgated by the United Nations—then there would be much wider consensus on what is ethically good and ethically bad conduct in any given specific situation. This commentary surveys—unfortunately but necessarily very briefly—each of these types of sources of ethics. Our survey of the ethical landscape is quite general—hopefully relevant to all, not specifically targeted to the many ethical challenges that often confront insurance or risk management practitioners.

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