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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 …


My Paper, "The Wto's Blind Spot: Dispute Resolution In The International Food Industry", Was Recently Listed On Ssrn's Top Ten Download List For: Sustainable Technology Ejournal., Gabriela Steier Jun 2013

My Paper, "The Wto's Blind Spot: Dispute Resolution In The International Food Industry", Was Recently Listed On Ssrn's Top Ten Download List For: Sustainable Technology Ejournal., Gabriela Steier

Gabriela Steier

My paper, "The WTO's Blind Spot: Dispute Resolution in the International Food Industry" was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Sustainable Technology eJournal. Please click on the document to the SSRN Top Ten List. This paper has been on the Sustainability Law & Policy eJournal Top Ten List for a month now.


Getting Published: Striving For The Byline, Lauren Gailey May 2013

Getting Published: Striving For The Byline, Lauren Gailey

Gabriela Steier

Article by Lauren Gailey. For more issues of Duquesne Juris please visit: http://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/law/publications-and-blogs/juris-magazine/recent-issues


My Paper Makes Ssrn Top Ten List, Gabriela Steier May 2013

My Paper Makes Ssrn Top Ten List, Gabriela Steier

Gabriela Steier

My paper, "THE WTO'S BLIND SPOT: DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE INTERNATIONAL FOOD INDUSTRY", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Food Law & Policy eJournal, PSN: Politics of the WTO (Topic), PSN: Politics of the WTO (Topic), SRPN: Agribusiness (Topic), SRPN: Biotechnology (Topic), SRPN: Politics of Food (Topic) and SRPN: World Trade Organisation (Topic).


The Wto's Blind Spot: Dispute Resolution In The International Food Industry, Gabriela Steier Apr 2013

The Wto's Blind Spot: Dispute Resolution In The International Food Industry, Gabriela Steier

Gabriela Steier

This paper analyzes the importance of the WTO’s role and its dispute resolution process within the international food trade system based on a discussion of the WTO’s dispute resolution of American genetically modified (GM) crops that were forced into the European market. In order for public policy and economic aspects to coexist in the legally binding decisions that originate from the WTO dispute resolution process, the panels should acknowledge their protective function toward the trading partners on the one hand, and the public and the global ecologic sustainability on the other. The resulting precedent, in turn, would induce behavioral changes …


Womenomics For Nursing Growth: Making The Case For Work Time Flexibility And Mother-Friendlier Workplaces, Gabriela Steier Jan 2013

Womenomics For Nursing Growth: Making The Case For Work Time Flexibility And Mother-Friendlier Workplaces, Gabriela Steier

Gabriela Steier

Gender bias at work often coerces breastfeeding working mothers to choose between their baby or their job. The forced choice between private and work life irreconcilably separates motherhood from a woman’s career, giving rise to the Mommy Wage Gap and the Maternal Wall. Consequently, the separation of work and family life has negative impacts on both the mother and her child. These negative impacts also bear on public health and the economy on a large scale. The more unaccommodating workplaces are, the stricter the separation between work and family life and the more permanent the choice a working mother has …


Cibus, Lex, Commercium: Food Law And Plantenomics In World Trade, Gabriela Steier Jan 2013

Cibus, Lex, Commercium: Food Law And Plantenomics In World Trade, Gabriela Steier

Gabriela Steier

Large food producers in some of the most-powerful trading nations attain so much influence through international trade and outsourcing, that they become leaders in corporate governance and the World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only international body capable of regulating the international trade that feeds globalization. This paper analyzes the importance of the WTO’s role and its dispute resolution process within the international food trade system based on a discussion of corporate governance in the food industry and the Cartagena Protocol. Important examples discussed in this paper are the WTO’s dispute resolution of American genetically modified (GM) crops that were …


Dead People Don’T Eat: Food Governmentenomics And Conflicts-Of-Interest In The Usda And Fda, Gabriela Steier Jan 2013

Dead People Don’T Eat: Food Governmentenomics And Conflicts-Of-Interest In The Usda And Fda, Gabriela Steier

Gabriela Steier

Conflicts of interest permeate the governance of the federal advisory committees that issue recommendations to consumer protection agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and, therefore, American consumers need a federal solution to protect their health from biased recommendations. In order to promote a business-friendly food pyramid, agribusinesses and food industrialists lobby for dietary guidelines to adapt the dietary guidelines illustrated by the food pyramid to boos their sales. The resulting guidelines cause great damage to public health, environmental pollution, and loss of democratic freedoms. As a result, the FDA …