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Home vs office: What is the best hybrid work mix for workers?

Most US employees on average want to work from home at least two days per week after the pandemic ends, research finds.

The current patchwork of the 'great return' to the office models has many questioning whether there’s an optimal hybrid approach - for workers and the bottom line [File: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg]

Study: Anti-LGBTQ laws cost Caribbean up to $4.2BN a year

Report finds the Caribbean suffers billions in lost tourism and productivity each year due to anti-LGBTQ laws.

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Counting the economic cost of anti-LGBTQ laws

Economists estimate countries are losing billions of dollars a year due to homophobia and anti-LGBTQ laws and practices.

By limiting a person’s access to jobs, education and healthcare - and by erecting other barriers - anti-LGBTQ laws prevent people from fully participating in a nation’s economy, which is a drag on economic growth, to the detriment of the entire nation [File: Craig Ruttle/AP]

Do woker workplaces await mothers who quit jobs due to pandemic?

Though the US economy is recovering, the pandemic may have cost women years of progress in the workplace.

Dawn Morgan Neary, mother of two, quit her job in November due to the demands of looking after her young children [File: courtesy Dawn Morgan Neary]

The epidemiologist and her fight to prevent the next pandemic

New York City Health + Hospitals’s Syra Madad on the women who inspired her at home and in her work in public health.

[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Al Jazeera]

The revolutionary and the shoulders upon which she stands

Civic change agent Sarah Williams tells the story of the grandmother who inspires her to fight for racial justice.

[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi and Muaz Kory/Al Jazeera]

‘No stopping us’: The Black women fighting for Breonna Taylor

A cadre of Black women in Louisville is honouring Taylor’s legacy by giving back to their communities.

'Before they said activist revolutionaries don’t make good politicians. We’re turning that [notion] on its head,' said 44-year-old Shameka Parrish-Wright, who plans to run for Louisville mayor in 2022 [Chris Kenning/Al Jazeera]

COVID crisis underscores need for ‘fundamental’ US housing reform

It will take more than stimulus aid and moratoriums to solve a housing crisis that hits Americans of colour hardest.

United States housing activists say the federal eviction moratorium and state and local protections are important but don't go far enough in safeguarding tenants [File: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters]

The Trump business backlash: Corporate ‘woke-washing’ or new era?

Dozens of businesses took action against US President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers after the Capitol riot.

Trump has long boasted about his business acumen and corporate connections, but company after company cut ties with him following the violent siege at the US Capitol by his supporters [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]

In 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement shook the world

Local BLM organisers reflect on a year that rocked the United States and chart their priorities for 2021.

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