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A Nanny Got 15 Minutes of Fame. An Industry Remains in the Shadows.

Liliana Melgar made a cameo appearance in Shakira’s latest music video, putting a spotlight on domestic workers and their struggles.

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Louise Meriwether Dies at 100; in 1970, a New, Black Literary Voice

Writing of life in Harlem, she emerged at the same time as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou but never achieved…

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Behind the Most Famous Men in Economics There Have Always Been Women

When the Nobel Committee awarded its prize in economics on Monday to the Harvard professor Claudia Goldin — the first…

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New Novels Brimming With Mystery, Mayhem and Quite a Bit of Murder

Glory Broussard, the star of Danielle Arceneaux’s fabulous debut mystery, GLORY BE (Pegasus Crime, 257 pp., $26.95), differs from most…

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‘What About Us?’ Strikes Leave Other Hollywood Workers Reeling

The lives of hundreds of thousands of crew members have been upended, and even a deal between the actors and…

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Follow This Music to Joy

Music is universal among humans, typically used for immediate benefits: aesthetic pleasure, accompaniment to ritual, dance or work or even…

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Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-Winning Research Shows ‘Why Women Won’

The winner of the Nobel in economics has demonstrated how gender gaps in work have shrunk, and why some remain.

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Family of Thai Farmworker in Israel Worries About His Fate

Kiattisak Patee, a chicken-farm worker, is feared to be one of 14 Thai citizens abducted during an attack in Israel…

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G.M. Workers in Canada Go on Strike

More than 4,000 members of the Unifor union went on strike at General Motors after the two sides failed to…

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Here’s What We Do and Don’t Know About the Effects of Remote Work.

Three years into a mass workplace experiment, we are beginning to understand more about how work from home is reshaping…

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