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1 week ago | 
forbes.com | Michelle Travis
Netflix pulls back the curtain on social media child stardom in its latest buzzworthy documentary, Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, which premiered on April 9, 2025. The three-part investigative series follows Piper Rockelle’s rise to fame as a YouTube child influencer starting at age nine. The series not only shines light on the hidden reality of child content creation.
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2 weeks ago | 
forbes.com | Michelle Travis
Ten former officials of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission set the record straight on the legality of employers’ diversity, equity and inclusion practices. These experts felt compelled to respond after Andrea R. Lucas, the EEOC’s Acting Chair appointed by President Trump, issued a guidance document titled, “What You Should Know About DEI-Related Discrimination at Work,” on March 19, 2025.
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3 weeks ago | 
forbes.com | Michelle Travis
Andrea R. Lucas, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Acting Chair appointed by President Trump, sent public letters to 20 law firms on March 17, 2025. The letters ask the firms to provide the EEOC with extensive information about their diversity, equity and inclusion practices. In response, seven former EEOC officials sent Lucas an open letter via electronic mail on March 18, 2025. The former EEOC officials rebuked Lucas’ actions as an illegal abuse of power.
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3 weeks ago | 
forbes.com.br | Michelle Travis
Entre os afastamentos recordes por questões de saúde mental em 2024 no Brasil, as mulheres foram as principais afetadas. Dados do Ministério da Previdência Social mostram que elas representaram 63,8% das 472 mil licenças concedidas por transtornos mentais no ano. As mulheres relatam níveis mais altos de burnout do que os homens há anos, e essa disparidade de gênero aumentou desde a pandemia.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Michelle Travis
At the same time that reproductive health access has become highly politicized, the majority of U.S. workers rely on employers for their health insurance coverage. That means that many women depend on employer-provided reproductive health benefits to cover basic healthcare needs.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Michelle Travis
JUST Capital released its list of large companies that score highest on workplace policies supporting women workers on March 6, 2025. While many lists of “best places to work” rely on surveys of current employees’ perceptions or on employer applications, JUST Capital’s list focuses on specific workplace policies. This approach is valuable because of the challenges that both employees and employers face in identifying and comparing company policies.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Michelle Travis
JUST Capital released its list of large companies that score highest on workplace policies supporting women workers on March 6, 2025. While many lists of “best places to work” rely on surveys of current employees’ perceptions or on employer applications, JUST Capital’s list focuses on specific workplace policies. This approach is valuable because of the challenges that both employees and employers face in identifying and comparing company policies.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Michelle Travis
Employers may be confused about their legal obligations in the face of the Trump Administration’s campaign against transgender individuals. Legal experts are reminding business leaders that it is still unlawful for most employers to discriminate against transgender employees because of their gender identity. Neither executive orders nor EEOC policy shifts can change federal or state gender identity discrimination laws governing private sector employers.
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1 month ago | 
forbes.com | Michelle Travis
Women have reported higher levels of burnout than men for years, and this gender gap has increased since the pandemic. In a survey of 5,000 working women, nearly one in four report feeling job burnout, according to Deloitte’s Women @ Work 2024 report. The World Health Organization defines burnout as a state of physical and mental exhaustion caused by chronic workplace stress. Burnout leads to feelings of energy depletion, reduced professional efficacy, and job detachment.
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2 months ago | 
forbes.com | Michelle Travis
Four out of ten women reports being subjected to sex discrimination during a job interview, according to a 2024 survey of 1000 women conducted by The Muse and RecruitmentMarketing.com. That’s just the gender bias that women experience firsthand. Sex discrimination also operates to prevent qualified women from landing job interviews in the first place. Gender bias often impacts the initial stage of the hiring process when decision makers review applications to select finalists for a job.
