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The significance of women’s health is increasingly acknowledged in the modern workplace

Workplace Insight

has seen a doubling of maternal mortality rates from 2002 to 2018, with a significant racial disparity affecting Black women. For example, a recent survey of companies in the UK found that 47 percent have no supportive policies for employees struggling with fertility ( FertilityFamily , 2023).

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Lab rats – how the UK life sciences sector is struggling to find space to work

Workplace Insight

It is striking how weighted Ireland’s export figures are to the life sciences, medical and pharmaceutical industries craved by the UK Just how significant is apparent when comparing the UK with Ireland. Its innovation, tested in human trials, targets tau tangles (abnormal clumps of protein that stick to neurons in the brain).

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The stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest bias

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These were especially common in countries like India and China; the latter’s one-child policy and old biases made families desperate for their one child to be a boy. In Japan, the shift has gone even further — as far back as 2002, 75 percent of couples who wanted only one child said they hoped for a daughter.

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