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Turkish toil brings new form of faith

In the Turkish city of Kayseri, Saffert Arsalan proudly shows off his furniture-making factory.

In little over a decade, Mr Arsalan's business has grown from a small enterprise to a multi-million pound international ( Read more... )

SOCIETY: The number of women on the job is beginning to drop ( Read more... )

Chinese nanny state takes root in US

China's emergence as an economic superpower has been well-documented.

Western business leaders are said to be gearing up for all the changes to come, but they are not the only ones keen to get a head start.

An increasing number of families in the United States is looking to ( Read more... )

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RIYADH, 30 August 2005 - The Ministry of Labor has warned institutions in the private sector that women should not work during the evening. An exception is made for those in the medical field where their job requires them to work at night or that they are in a continuous working shift in a hospital that requires them to stay all day.Muhammad Al- ( Read more... )

TALL women may aim higher in their careers and be less focused on having children.Researchers at the University of Stirling and the University of St Andrews in Scotland asked 679 women aged 20 to 29 about their desire for children and 541 women aged over 45 when they had given birth to a first child and how many children they had had ( Read more... )

The path for women in science remains a "difficult trek", according to a group of US researchers writing in the latest edition of Science magazine.They say that although there have been major advances, academic institutions are still not making full use of the pool of women scientists available ( Read more... )

Even though he was never given a dress code, rising Syracuse University junior Michael Swartz knew enough not to turn up on the first day of his summer internship on the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette design desk wearing sandals and iPod earbuds. Yet by the second week the sandals were on and the earbuds were in - and no one seemed to mind ( Read more... )