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Law and Gender

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2013

Employment

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Thinking Win-Win: Boosting Profitability Through Gender-Balanced Flex-Time, Gabriela Steier Aug 2013

Thinking Win-Win: Boosting Profitability Through Gender-Balanced Flex-Time, Gabriela Steier

Gabriela Steier

Setting working mothers free from the gridlock of inflexible “all-or-nothing” workplaces1 can unleash the tremendous potential of female leadership qualities and create win-win2 situations for both employers and employees. When human resources managers create such win-win situations, they can boost efficiency, productivity, profitability, and ultimately increase their company’s bottom line. The key to this strategy consists of attracting and maintaining female talent in the market by implementing mother-friendlier time management. This article analyses the business case for women in terms of gender-balanced leadership, and evaluates flex-time block-schedules as a corporate management strategy to achieve the goals of boosting the bottom …


New York Law Of Domestic Violence, Deseriee Kennedy Dec 2012

New York Law Of Domestic Violence, Deseriee Kennedy

Deseriee A. Kennedy

NEW YORK LAW OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 3rd ed., is a comprehensive 2-volume, 7-chapter, hardbound treatise published by West (Thomson-Reuters). The treatise is the seminal authority on domestic violence in New York State covering New York State laws and relevant U.S. Supreme Court cases. The authors of the book are Professor Breger (Albany Law School, Albany, NY), Professor Kennedy (Touro School of Law, Central Islip, NY), Jill M. Zuccardy, Esq. (New York City), and now retired Judge Lee Hand Elkins (formerly Brooklyn Family Court). The treatise and its authors have been cited as authority repeatedly by trial and appellate courts, as …