Quotes About Workforce

Feminist scholarship has documented that the positive benefits masses of women have gained by entering the workforce have more to do with increased self-esteem and positive participation in community. No matter her class the woman who stayed at home working as a housewife was often isolated, lonely, and depressed.

As many black women and other women of color saw white women from privileged classes benefiting economically more than any other group from reformist feminist gains in the workforce, it simply reaffirmed that feminism was a white woman thing.

She's a social worker." What else? Dan quipped to himself, thinking of the vast sea of unemployed and unemployable Californians. Half the state stood in welfare lines while the other half stood behind the desks ministering to them. Maybe they take turns at it, he thought, one week in line and one week running the system

Today we produce only 60,000 to 70,000 engineers per year, 40 percent of whom are foreigners, while China produces over 400,000 engineers per year.

Industrial conscription is, of course, rigidly enforced. Every man and woman has to work, and slacking is severely punished, by prison or a penal settlement.

The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education.

I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

We need to wake up to the fact that it is not immigrants who are causing economic dislocations. It is technology and an evolving economy that is pushing more and more Americans to the sidelines.

Lots of migrants live in our country, and they make a significant contribution to our economy.

The U.K. and the U.S. are quite similar in that they have high-productivity, English-speaking workforces who don't mind working long hours. Working in those countries is not a problem.

We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Jobs are changing. Jobs will be about the blending of the digital and industrial capabilities.

I think calling for more women in every aspect of this industry is a sensible thing.

The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.

The business world needs the best talent from both genders to compete in an ever-changing environment and drive innovation.

In just my interaction, I go to factories, and I talk to our employees. And in Canada, they have had a least a year or two more education. It's like, almost, I never run into anybody who hasn't finished high school. And in the United States, you have a lot who dropped out of 11th grade or whatever.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

millennials are a median age of twenty-seven. There's seventy-five to eighty million of us. We are now the biggest group of employees in the workforce. There's more of us than boomers or gen X. We're also approaching peak spending years. And so as a foundational part of the economy, millennials are by far the most important group for the next forty years. And so, as a business, that's the group you want to build your audience around.