Innholdsfortegnelse for 6/4-6/1/2021 i Newsweek

1973 “With his survival now plainly in the balance, President Nixon stated his case in the Watergate scandals,” said Newsweek, “and still failed to stem the tide of accusation battering at his government.” Just months later, the House of Representatives began the formal impeachment process against Nixon, who was still under immense public scrutiny as more and more abuses of power came to light. Less than a year after that, he resigned. To this day, he is the only United States president who has resigned from office, and one of only four to face official impeachment proceedings—including Donald Trump. 1986 According to Newsweek, “dire statistics contained in a new demographic study confirms what everybody has suspected all along: many women who seem to have it all will never have husbands.”…

> 4.5 MILLION The net number of jobs women have lost since February 2020 57.2% Women’s labor force participation rate (April 2021). Prior to the pandemic, the last time the rate was this low: October 1988. 28 MONTHS How long it will take women to regain the jobs lost during the pandemic at the current rate of recovery 44.2% The percentage of unemployed women who have been out of work for six months or longer 2 MILLION The net number of women who have left the labor force entirely since the pandemic began SOURCE: National Women’s Law Center…

AS WARM WEATHER DESCENDS UPON US, AND SOME of us prepare to venture back outside to enjoy parks and beaches, what better companion is there than a delicious summer read? This season’s titles include a hefty dose of books about books and white collar business tales that read more like thrillers than nonfiction. This list will keep you entertained long after summer ends. Fiction Revival Season By Monica West MAY | SIMON & SCHUSTER | $26 Every year, the Horton family travels across the South for revival season, where the family patriarch, a prominent Baptist preacher, uses his healing powers. Young Miriam, his daughter, is thrown into crisis by something she witnesses on one of those trips in this intricate story of growing up. Bewilderness By Karen Tucker JUNE |…

MILLIONS OF WOMEN HAVE LOST JOBS OR dropped out of the labor force due to COVID-19, but an end to the pandemic won’t by itself repair the economic damage that’s resulted. Instead, experts say, it will take systemic changes on the part of employers and the federal government, as well as some smart strategizing from women themselves (when possible) to get them back to work and strengthen their long-term financial security. Here are 10 steps experts recommend. WHAT INDIVIDUALS CAN DO 01 Keep your hand in. Research shows that employers view job candidates who have career breaks on their resumes less favorably than those who were steadily employed—especially if the time out was for taking care of children. If you can, help close the employment gap by taking on an…

FIFTEEN MONTHS INTO THE COVID-19 pandemic, the statistics that reflect its toll on women’s employment continue to astonish. Women’s participation in the labor force has dropped to levels last seen in the 1980s. A May 2021 analysis from the National Women’s Law Center identified a net loss of 4.5 million jobs held by women since February 2020; nearly 2 million women have left the labor force altogether. And those sobering big-picture numbers obscure the outsized impact on women of color: The employment rate for Black and Hispanic women has taken a bigger hit than that of any other demographic group. Early signs of the post-COVID recovery suggest the negative effect on women won’t disappear any time soon. Research by McKinsey suggests the employment recovery rate for women will lag men’s…

01 Area 51 Groom Lake, Nevada Perhaps the most famous spot associated with UFOs and extraterrestrial life, this highly classified military facility has fueled many conspiracy theories due to its secrecy. It is rumored to hold a crashed alien ship and the bodies of its passengers and even other alien technology. 02 Giant Rock Mojave Desert, California This massive freestanding boulder in the middle of the desert used to be the location of UFO conferences. In the 1950s, a UFO enthusiast lived in a mined-out house under the rock. He claimed to have heard alien communication from an antenna on top of the boulder and even to have entered a spaceship. 03 San Clemente UFO Trail San Clemente, Chile Considered to be the unofficial UFO capital of the world, researchers say that hundreds…

BEFORE REPRESENTATIVE RAUL RUIZ WAS THE chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, or became a member of Congress in 2012, he was a doctor in California. Ruiz sat down with Newsweek recently to talk about being a physician and a lawmaker during a pandemic, the ins and outs of getting Biden and Congress to move on immigration, the Latino vote, disinformation campaigns and more. You grew up in Coachella, California, the child of farmworkers, and achieved your dream of becoming a physician. How does your life experience and background inform your work? Growing up in a trailer park, son of farm workers, and being the first generation to graduate from high school and go to college, I understand from my own life story the hardships and struggles that many of…

ONLY ABOUT 35 TO 40 PERCENT OF THE MONEY THAT A TYPICAL WOMAN MAY LOSE over her lifetime due to being out of work during the pandemic comes from the current income she is missing out on. The rest is due to the loss of some future earnings (since women who interrupt their careers usually make less when they return to work) and also to reductions in their retirement savings and Social Security benefits. As these projections show, the longer a woman is out of work, the greater the financial damage is likely to be. KEY: NOTES: Calculations are for a hypothetical woman, age 30, based on 2019 BLS wage data; lost future wages were calculated using a formula that takes into account years of experience and data from the National…

IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, ISRAELI ACTRESS SHIRA HAAS HAS DELIVERED career-defining performances in a number of projects, including her Emmy-nominated performance in Unorthodox and the international hit series Shtisel (both available on Netflix). The kicker is, she’s only 25. “I sometimes felt mature for my age. I’m not saying it to compliment myself, but that’s why I was drawn to acting. I could show stuff within me that I couldn’t necessarily show in my daily life.” Now she’s showing even more range in the film Asia. Haas plays Vika, a teen facing her own mortality because of an illness while also finding a connection with her mother, Asia (played by Alena Yiv), before it’s too late. “I’m excited to finally talk about Asia, because it’s one of the projects—if…