‘When a return to the office is a return to sex-discrimination’
Gleb Tsipursky at The Hill
A recent Organization Science study analyzed “everyday gender discrimination” and found that “women experience far fewer gendered offenses when working remotely,” says Gleb Tsipursky. “As employers roll out return-to-office rules, the risk is clear: Mandates are not neutral. They can recreate the exact conditions that drive women out of roles, teams and entire fields.” The “core takeaway is not that remote work is perfect — it is that location changes exposure to bias.”
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‘There’s a reason Europe is so obsessed with immigration’
Anton Jager at The New York Times
Immigration worries in Europe “outstrip objective reality,” says Anton Jager. “The topic has become a prism through which all the continent’s ills are viewed.” The continued flow of “outsiders” into European capitals is “held responsible for a gamut of problems, from poor social services to wage stagnation to crime.” But while “migration is assailed as a threat to Europe’s identity,” that identity is hazy. It “falls to migration to fill the void at the center of Europe’s self-image.”
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‘We’re ignoring the cause of homelessness, and how to solve it’
Michele Steeb at USA Today
“What if Americans judged success not by whether people had housing, but by whether they discovered — or rediscovered — who they were created to become?” says Michele Steeb. The federal government’s “Housing First approach” made “housing placement the primary intervention and measure of success, while removing expectations for treatment, sobriety, employment or progress toward self-sufficiency. In doing so, it too often treated the symptom of homelessness” while “leaving the deeper human crises that frequently accompany and perpetuate it unaddressed.”
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‘Can a party be leftist and Zionist?’
Tamam Abusalama at Al Jazeera
“Can a party or an individual be both leftist and Zionist?” says Tamam Abusalama. The “short answer” is “no.” Touted in “Israel and beyond as a legitimate ideological belief,” it’s a “political technology designed to shield Zionism from any critique while preserving the structures of oppression.” Whatever “position early Zionists staked out on the political spectrum, what the movement ultimately produced — the state of Israel — was in direct contradiction with the anti-colonial, anti-racist politics the left was supposed to stand for.”
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