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Summers said last night he agrees that the 80-hour workweek for academic scientists is “a social convention” and “that it clearly has the effect of favoring men.” He said he hoped his comments would prompt researchers to consider ways to make academic careers more compatible with family life...
...while Summers said in his remarks Friday that mothers are often unwilling to devote the 80 hours per week necessary to achieve tenured posts at elite academic institutions, Shauman said that the 80-hour workweek is itself a social construction that discriminates against women...
...Back To Work French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin announced a relaxation of the country's controversial 35-hour workweek, lifting the ceiling on annual employee overtime from 180 to 220 hours...
...form, and I stand on a bench on a deck in the dark and talk to 80 people shivering in the cold like boat refugees, and I excoriate and extol and exhort in uplifting cadences about this evil war, the miserable economy that is bringing back the 60-hr. workweek and the folks who don't mind this war so long as their kids don't have to fight it. Afterward we hobnob in the kitchen and enjoy a little solidarity around coffee and fudge bars, but as I drive home, the car wants to head west out across...
...finished. Last month he moved to waive inheritance taxes on sums below €100,000 per estate, suspended a 3% corporate tax, and withstood stiff protests from unions to lay the groundwork for the partial privatization of Electricité de France. He also deplores France's 35-hour workweek, and says it must be changed to allow those who want to work more to do so. And consider the blatant interventionist. Sarkozy brokered the €2 billion state bailout of engineering giant Alstom, angering E.U. members who called it an unfair protectionist subsidy. He also coerced Franco-German pharmaceutical giant...