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In Game:

Historically, a courtesan was a woman who engaged in the activity of prostitution. During several historical periods, courtesans were a group allied with the Assassin Brotherhood or the Templar Order.

During the Renaissance, though courtesans were mainly based in brothels within a city, many were known to stand along the streets – usually in groups of four – to entice customers. Each possessed a standard style of dress and hairstyle, as was deemed appropriate for those in their profession at the time.

After the execution of Giovanni, Federico and Petruccio, Ezio Auditore da Firenze sought sanctuary with Paola and her courtesans, who taught him how to conceal himself in a crowd, pick pockets, and be "seen, but unseen" as they were.

Afterwards, Ezio hired courtesans to distract the guards and allow his remaining family to escape the city, and would continue to use their services from then on, usually instructing them to seduce a group of nearby guards in order to allow him to slip past unseen. Alternatively, they would follow Ezio along the streets, concealing him among them by walking around him in a diamond formation, in a similar manner to how Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad blended with scholars.

Upon traveling to Rome, Ezio aided the courtesans by funding the renovations for their main brothel, the Rosa in Fiore, as well as renovating smaller brothels throughout the city. After his sister took over Rosa in Fiore's administration, he volunteered to teach the girls several skills.

During the 18th century, courtesans were referred to as "dancers" who commonly worked at taverns and streets. They operated in a similar process as courtesans of the Renaissance by working as groups of four.

Prostitution and brothels were still popular by the mid and late 18th century. Women were sold in taverns or kidnapped to entertain rooms and even ships.

In 1757, Edward Kenway's daughter, Jennifer Scott, was kidnapped by mercenaries. The Templar Reginald Birch sold her to Turkish slavers and became a concubine in the Topkapı Palace. The palace included the Harem for raising and educating wives of future royalty. She was then transported to Damascus to serve under the Ottoman governor in charge, As'ad Pasha al-Azm. By her mid-40's, Jennifer worked as a servant for the concubines due to her age. Ultimately, her half-brother Haytham and a friend, Jim Holden, infiltrated the palace to find and rescue her.

By 1788, the Templar Élise de la Serre and a young girl named Hélène were saved from becoming prostitutes of the Middle Man by Byron Jackson, an English ship captain.

Due to poverty and the lack of jobs in Victorian England, many turned to prostitution as a way to earn a living. After assassinating Crawford Starrick and his Templar control over London, the twin Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye recruited initiates from child labor, orphans and prostitutes. A couple female initiates took upon the identity of courtesans who worked in a Whitechapel brothel owned by Olwyn Owers, as undercover agents.

In Real Life:

Prostitution has been practiced throughout ancient and modern culture. Prostitution has been described as "the world's oldest profession," and despite consistent attempts at regulation, it continues nearly unchanged.

Perceptions of prostitution are based on culturally determined values that differ between societies. In some societies, prostitutes have been viewed as members of a recognized profession; in others they have been shunned, reviled, and punished with stoning, imprisonment, and death. Few societies have exercised the same severity toward clients; indeed, in many societies, clients suffer few if any legal repercussions. In some cultures, prostitution has been required of young girls as a rite of puberty or as a means of acquiring a dowry, and some religions have required prostitution of a certain class of priestesses.

In ancient times, Mesopotamian religious practices gave birth to the prostitution trade, as women in Ishtar’s service would help men who offered money to her temples with the ‘sacred’ powers of their bodies. Achieving a priority of communication with the goddess from their fertility, only women enjoyed this religious position. Thus Ishtar temples became knowledge centers concerning birth, birth control, and sexuality. Priestesses became the nurses and sacred sex therapists of these early societies. Men of all rank could hire these women and, in turn, make an offering to the goddess from whose temple the prostitute came.

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The Greeks and Romans mandated that prostitutes wear distinctive dress and pay severe taxes. Sexual schools rose in the Greek city states, where girls would be purchased from slave markets and trained to provide revenue by selling sex. Many young slaves prostituted themselves to earn money, which meant that, being women or slaves, prostitutes consisted of those excluded from Athens’ Popular Assembly. Hebrew also law did not forbid prostitution but confined the practice to foreign women. Among the ordinances laid down by Moses to regulate public health were several dealing with sexually transmitted diseases.

In Europe during the Middle Ages, church leaders attempted to rehabilitate penitent prostitutes and fund their dowries. Nevertheless, prostitution flourished: it was not merely tolerated but also protected, licensed, and regulated by law, and it constituted a considerable source of public revenue. Public brothels were established in large cities throughout Europe. At Toulouse, in France, the profits were shared between the city and the university; in England, bordellos were originally licensed by the bishops of Winchester and subsequently by Parliament.

Italian courtesans knew freedom like no other prostitutes of the Renaissance period. While most women during this time were only truly able to educate themselves if they were sent to a convent, courtesans were able to study freely. Furthermore, courtesans were able to obtain the same security and stability as married women, and, unlike married women, they were actually able to embrace their sexuality. Widely considered the best educated and most cultured women of their time, these women were able to hold philosophical conversations and discuss poetry with their clients, in addition to providing sex services. Their influence became so great that they were actually able to affect politics by sharing their views with the politicians among their clientele.

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By the end of the 15th century attitudes began to harden against prostitution. An outbreak of syphilis in Naples during 1494, which later swept across Europe, may have originated from the Colombian Exchange. The prevalence of other sexually transmitted diseases during the earlier 16th century may have caused this change in attitude. By the early 16th century the association between prostitutes, plague and contagion emerged, causing brothels and prostitution to be outlawed by secular authority. Furthermore, outlawing brothels and prostitution was used to “strengthen the criminal law” system of the sixteenth century secular rulers. Canon law defined a prostitute as “a promiscuous woman, regardless of financial elements.” The prostitute was considered a “whore … who [was] available for the lust of many men,” and was most closely associated with promiscuity.

The Church’s stance on prostitution was three-fold. It included the “acceptance of prostitution as an inevitable social fact, condemnation of those profiting from this commerce, and encouragement for the prostitute to repent.” The Church was forced to recognize its inability to remove prostitution from the worldly society, and in the fourteenth century “began to tolerate prostitution as a lesser evil.” However, prostitutes were excluded from the Church as long as they continued with their lifestyle. Around the twelfth century, the idea of prostitute saints took hold, with Mary Magdalene being one of the most popular saints of the era. The Church used Mary Magdalene’s biblical history of being a reformed harlot to encourage prostitutes to repent and mend their ways.

Stricter controls were imposed during the 16th century, in part because of the new sexual morality that accompanied the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Just as significant was the dramatic upsurge of sexually transmitted diseases. Sporadic attempts were made to suppress brothels and even to introduce medical inspections, but such measures were to little avail. In some periods prostitutes had to distinguish themselves from other with particular signs. They sometimes wore very short hair or no hair at all, and sometimes they wore veils in societies where other women did not wear them. Ancient codes regulated the crime of a prostitute that dissimulated her profession.

In the late 19th century a variety of changes in Western societies revived efforts to suppress prostitution. With the rise of feminism, many came to regard male libertinism as a threat to women’s status and physical health. Also influential was a new religious-based moralism in Protestant countries. Antiprostitution campaigns flourished from the 1860s, often in association with temperance and woman suffrage movements.

History books and novels written during Victorian era portray a sophisticated and classy society, but in reality, there were more brothels than schools in London during this time. Prostitutes were considered “fallen women” because it was believed that women of the society would never opt to become a prostitute. In fact, the period between mid-1700 up to late 1800 is said to be the golden years of prostitution in London. They were termed as the ladies of the night.

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International cooperation to end the traffic in women for the purpose of prostitution began in 1899. In 1921 the League of Nations established the Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children, and in 1949 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a convention for the suppression of prostitution.

In the 21st century, Afghans revived a method of prostituting young boys, which is referred to as bacha bazi. Since the break up of the Soviet Union thousands of eastern European women have become prostitutes in China, Western Europe, Israel and Turkey every year. There are tens of thousands of women from eastern Europe and Asia working as prostitutes in Dubai. Men from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates form a large proportion of the customers. India's devadasi girls are forced by their poor families to dedicate themselves to the Hindu goddess Renuka. There are also hundreds of sex trafficking rings around the world.

Sources:

http://allthatsinteresting.com/history-of-prostitution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_prostitution

https://sabotagetimes.com/sex/a-history-of-prostitution-how-old-is-the-sex-trade

https://www.britannica.com/topic/prostitution

http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-ladies-night-prostitution.html

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❝ we are not the first who with best meaning have incurred the worst. ❞

-cordelia

king lear act v, scene iii

basic information

FULL NAME: catherine elisabeth daly PRONUNCIATION: cath-rin // ih-liz-uh-beh th // dey-lee MEANING & REASONING:

catherine (origin: france // meaning: pure, clear, innocent)

the last of the daly girls was the biggest surprise: tiny at birth (smaller than regina and grace) with bright blue eyes and hair of gold--the perfect contrast to her sisters. her parents were enthralled, her sisters were less so (because she was just another undeserving person to steal the attention, the gifts, the fawning). her gentle disposition earned her a loving nickname of principessa from her father and golden-girl from her sisters, but all was good for the mild-mannered catherine.

elisabeth (origin: greece // meaning: devoted to God; God is satisfaction)

she’s loved the cathedral for as long as she can remember, long before she learned of the underground business that runs rampant when the capulets think God is not watching. silly capulets, God sees all. even still, the place is still holy to her. her family’s pew (more hers now than ever) still gives her fond memories: sitting on her father’s lap with a grin or a head bowed fervently in prayer or asking for God’s forgiveness when she did wrong.

(Father, forgive me.)

daly (origin: ireland // meaning: one who is present at the assemblies; counselor)

catherine’s the angel on the shoulder to some, a pesky fly on the wall to others. regardless of how she’s viewed by her fellow capulets, she is ever-present (lest her absence be taken as an act of dissent) and always alert, always absorbing information that could be of some use later on. they may not think she always deserves to be in the room where it happens, but the littlest daly is as proud as she is determined; she’s hellbent on always trying to get her voice heard.

NICKNAME(S): santa, cat, daly three (by tiberius capulet), kitty-cat (by grace daly), catrina (by mikael falco), kitten (by easton craven), principessa (by louis daly), colomba (by valentina gallo) PREFERRED NAME(S): catherine, cat BIRTH DATE: march 7, 1998 AGE: 20 ZODIAC: pisces GENDER: female PRONOUNS: she/her ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: biromantic SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual, though she leans more towards the heterosexual end of the spectrum NATIONALITY: italian ETHNICITY: irish-italian CURRENT LOCATION: verona, italy LIVING CONDITIONS: incredibly comfortable; catherine has a home penthouse-apartment along one of verona’s most-coveted locations. she’s amassed a rather telling collection of decor that attests to her taste and who she is TITLE(S): la santa di verona, soldier

background

BIRTH PLACE: verona, italy HOMETOWN: verona, italy SOCIAL CLASS: upper middle class/upper class EDUCATION LEVEL: completion of upper secondary education (comparable to a university-prep school) at age 18; here, she focused on interior design FATHER: louis daly MOTHER: simona daly (née: moretti) SIBLING(S): grace daly, regina daly BIRTH ORDER: third CHILDREN: n/a PET(S): n/a for now, as she’s actively deciding what breed of dog she wants OTHER IMPORTANT RELATIVES: catherine considers the following to also be important family members--theodora moreau, bellamy santo domingo, maeve petre, easton craven, valentina gallo (in no particular order) PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS: a couple of long-term relationships while still in school which ended with not a bang, but a whimper; afterwards, short romantic flings with both men and women, though only a few ever included sexual acts ARRESTS?: n/a PRISON TIME?: n/a

occupation & income

PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME: capulet business; the littlest daly does what’s asked of her to the best of her abilities, and surprisingly, she succeeds enough for this to be her top breadwinner SECONDARY SOURCE OF INCOME: interior design; when she’s not involved in any underground crime, catherine is often sought out by people who need help with turning a house a home TERTIARY SOURCE(S) OF INCOME: louis capulet (which, again, is capulet money); she’s daddy’s little girl and though she’d never outstretch her hands in a display of greediness, she knows louis will make sure she remains comfortable and well-taken care of (should the need every arise, that is) APPROXIMATE AMOUNT PER YEAR: an incredibly comfortable amount; almost so much to where it’s uncomfortable for a woman like catherine CONTENT WITH THEIR JOB (OR LACK THERE OF)?: cat’s not content with her current job or the work she’s involved in, but she knows better than to be entirely ungrateful. the best way for her to reconcile her work sector and position would be to become an emissary. PAST JOB(S): babysitter; part-time secretary SPENDING HABITS: controlled and often more focused on others than herself; catherine considers herself a rather talented gift-giver and hardly bats a last at the price of things if it’s for someone she loves (because, of course, you can’t put a price on happiness) MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION: a gift from her mother, a moretti family heirloom; it is a dainty opal engagement ring passed down from generation to generation (x)

skills & abilities

PHYSICAL STRENGTH: 6/10--she’s more lithe than bulky; she is not built for war, but for civility. however, the capulets insisted on toughening her up, on turning catherine from porcelain, to ivory, to steel--to the best of their abilities, that is OFFENSE: 3/10--the saint of verona detests violence. because of this, her offensive skills are rather lacking--she certainly knows better than to get into fights unarmed (but even when armed, she’s, at most, ranked at 5/10) DEFENSE: 8/10--though she believes her strongest defense involves diplomacy, pens, and words, she’s not useless when it comes to physical defense; tiberius taught her to take hits best suited for using a pen and her words as her defense, catherine daly is, surprisingly, durable; SPEED: 9/10--cat be nimble, cat be quick; grazie a Dio for her innate speed, otherwise she’d be long gone INTELLIGENCE: 9/10--though others would vehemently say otherwise, catherine daly is a person to take note of, both in and out of violence; she’s terribly bright and quick to notice patterns in a person’s fighting style that she--if given enough time--can try to exploit ACCURACY: 5/10--practice makes perfect, but she wants no parts in being fine tuned into a machine of war; because of this stubbornness, her accuracy is lacking AGILITY: 7/10--she’s light on her feet, which is probably one of the best things she’s got going for her--from a soldier’s standpoint, of course STAMINA: 7/10--but constantly dodging and taking hits is taxing; though her stamina is much better now than it was two years ago, don’t expect her to evade her opponents every single time without exhaustion and missteps TEAMWORK: 10/10--it makes the dream work; catherine finds that she thrives in situations where she is not alone because there is always someone willing to dirty their hands with blood more so than displaying diplomacy TALENTS: creatively coming up with more civil ways of doing capulet business; it’s frowned upon, but revenue is the mob’s lifeline and she manages to pull her weight SHORTCOMINGS: aversion to fighting (armed or unarmed); bullheadedness LANGUAGE(S) SPOKEN: italian, english, conversational german, few spanish phrases (typically of endearment, only towards maeve petre) DRIVE?: yes JUMP-STAR A CAR?: barely CHANGE A FLAT TIRE?: no RIDE A BICYCLE?: yes SWIM?: yes PLAY AN INSTRUMENT?: yes; catherine learned how to play the piano as a young girl PLAY CHESS?: no; but if you’d like to play a game, she enjoys mancala and spades BRAID HAIR?: yes; now, you wonder what kinds of braids? french, dutch, fishtail, and waterfall TIE A TIE?: yes PICK A LOCK?: no

physical appearance & characteristics

FACE CLAIM: saoirse ronan (x)(x) EYE COLOR: blue HAIR COLOR: blonde HAIR TYPE/STYLE: medium length and wavy (x) GLASSES/CONTACTS?: n/a DOMINANT HAND: ambidextrous; however, she favors her right hand because when she was in grade school, a classmate told her that left-handedness was somehow connected to il diavolo and she was too scared to ask her parents if the claim was true HEIGHT: 5′6 WEIGHT: 134 lbs BUILD: soft hearts aren’t the first line of defense when it comes to business; catherine is more lithe and limber than she is toned and taut with muscles EXERCISE HABITS: training with tiberius capulet; SKIN TONE: fair-skinned with an almost-angelic glow TATTOOS: a few little ones that are artfully placed where no one can see them unless she wants them to--wouldn’t you love to know what they are? PIERCINGS: one set; catherine only has standard earlobe piercings MARKS/SCARS: various, minuscule scars alone her hands and other areas used for combat; birthmark on left hip NOTABLE FEATURES: bright blue eyes that are unusually welcoming in the world of gun trade USUAL EXPRESSION: an amicable demeanor; could range from a half-smile or genuine warmth from her gaze CLOTHING STYLE: comfortable and soft; she owns only a handful of black items (and she only wears them to funerals or on business occasions); she prefers chenille, lace, satin JEWELRY: opal ring as mentioned before; a pair of diamond studs; varying types of necklaces depending on her mood (a dainty diamond choker, a string of pearls, a silver pendent, etc) ALLERGIES: n/a BODY TEMPERATURE: typically 98.6 degrees fahrenheit...? DIET: pretty much anything except tofu; almond milk > cow milk PHYSICAL AILMENTS: n/a

psychology

JUNG TYPE: infj - the advocate

“INFJs indeed share a unique combination of traits: though soft-spoken, they have very strong opinions and will fight tirelessly for an idea they believe in. they are decisive and strong-willed, but will rarely use that energy for personal gain – INFJs will act with creativity, imagination, conviction and sensitivity not to create advantage, but to create balance. egalitarianism and karma are very attractive ideas to INFJs, and they tend to believe that nothing would help the world so much as using love and compassion to soften the hearts of tyrants”

ENNEAGRAM TYPE: type two - the helper

“twos are empathetic, sincere, and warm-hearted. they are friendly, generous, and self-sacrificing, but can also be sentimental, flattering, and people-pleasing. they are well-meaning and driven to be close to others, but can slip into doing things for others in order to be needed. they typically have problems with possessiveness and with acknowledging their own needs. at their best: unselfish and altruistic, they have unconditional love for others”

MORAL ALIGNMENT: neutral good

“these characters value life and freedom above all else, and despise those who would deprive others of them. neutral good characters sometimes find themselves forced to work beyond the law, yet for the law, and the greater good of the people. they are not vicious or vindictive, but are people driven to right injustice. neutral good characters always attempt to work within the law whenever possible, however”

TEMPERAMENT: phlegmatic

“someone with phlegmatic personality type is usually a people person. they seek interpersonal harmony and close relationships. phlegmatic people are loyal spouses and loving parents. they preserve their relationships with old friends, distant family members, and neighbors. people with phlegmatic temperament tend to avoid conflicts and always try to mediate between others to restore peace and harmony”

ELEMENT: water

"water signs are intuitive and sensitive, and they feel more intensely than the rest. they are emotional and nurturing, and like a river, they run deep. how things feel is what matters to these folks, and they base their actions on sense, rather than on logic or intellect. water is also about compassion and understanding, since the receptive talents of these individuals are remarkably high. water sign people can take in the feelings of others, process them, and put forth a plan or solution that will be conscientious to all”

PRIMARY INTELLIGENCE TYPE: interpersonal intelligence

“you might have observed that there are certain persons who have the seemingly unique ability to get along superbly with others. these “people smart” individuals, with the use of their interpersonal intelligence, interact with others in such a way that they are able to understand and communicate well. interpersonal intelligence makes it possible for a person to effectively communicate through verbal and nonverbal means, to distinguish among others, to sense the temperament and moods of people, and to consider various points of view”

APPROXIMATE IQ: 117 MENTAL CONDITIONS/DISORDERS: n/a SOCIABILITY: very; she’s hardly met a stranger she doesn’t know, as she’s all warmth and acceptance and peace EMOTIONAL STABILITY: 7/10--after the trial, catherine’s emotions have been twisted and conflicted; she’s not sure which ones are valid, are proactive rather than reactive. additionally, her relationships with both easton craven and alexander rallis shed light on the darker parts of her that she’s spent twenty years hiding; easton exposes her bleeding heart, squeezing and squeezing and squeezing, hoping to break it and catherine; alexander nurtures the innate part of the saint that she cant escape--the part of her that seeks retribution and thrives on being the judge, jury, and executioner OBSESSION(S): a bit of a strong word, but she’s incredibly fond of dogs COMPULSION(S): checking in on loved ones to make sure they’re alright; cleaning/redecorating/organizing when feeling overwhelmingly off-kilter PHOBIA(S): theophobia ADDICTION(S): love DRUG USE: slim to none; working so closely with theodora has lessened her desires to dabble in the world of man-made drugs (save for rare occasions like the trial), but every once in a blue moon, she can be convinced to consume an edible--preferably a brownie ALCOHOL USE: casual; she’s always open to a having a nice wine-night in with friends (or herself) and she’s also very receptive to drinking in social settings (i.e. -- parties, clubs) PRONE TO VIOLENCE?: absolutely not.

mannerisms

SPEECH STYLE: politely honest; somewhat cheeky ACCENT: italian HOBBIES: interior decorating; spending time with loved ones HABITS: caring for others at the expense of her own wellbeing; surprising loved ones with gifts NERVOUS TICKS: soft, minuscule movement of hands/fingers (i.e. -- gentle drumming of fingertips, absentminded twirling of hair); biting on her lower lip; pursing of lips; flushed cheeks DRIVES/MOTIVATIONS: hopes of changing mob tactics towards those that are more civil/peaceful; proving everyone wrong FEARS: losing herself (i.e. -- becoming more capulet than she is catherine); losing her family/those who she considers family; drowning POSITIVE TRAITS: devoted, honest, gentle, protective, creative NEGATIVE TRAITS: stubborn, hypocritical, proud, dogmatic, emotional SENSE OF HUMOR: a cheeky sense of humor; catherine’s honesty paired with her innate politeness often creates tongue-in-cheek responses in which she manages to convey her truths without coming off as too blunt DO THEY CURSE OFTEN?: somewhat; the saint of verona isn’t opposed to colorful language, but if she can effectively convey her emotions without it, she will CATCHPHRASE(S): n/a

favorites

ACTIVITY: interior decorating ANIMAL: fox BEVERAGE: hot chocolate BOOK: the great gatsby; deathless; wonder CELEBRITY: margot robbie; anne hathaway; lupita nyong’o COLOR: blush DESIGNER: elie saab; christian louboutin; ralph and russo FOOD: cheesecake, with strawberry topping on the side FLOWER: cherry blossom GEM: opal; pearl HOLIDAY: new year’s eve MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: plane; car (x) MOVIE: lady and the tramp; the perks of being a wallflower; lady bird; love & basketball MUSICAL ARTIST: amy winehouse; adele; QUOTE/SAYING: “i have to believe much in God because i have lost my faith in man” (x) SCENERY: a rooftop in tinos, greece overlooking the water where the sun’s vibrant orange rays dispel the previous darkness, give the ocean a golden sheen, and warm her cheeks (x); an irish countryside, idyllic and filled with the most stunning shades of green, with rocks gently sloping out and in of the crystalline streams (x) SCENT: chamomile SPORT: greyhound racing SPORTS TEAM: brielle king TELEVISION SHOW: the ellen degeneres show; the bridge (x); baking challenge shows WEATHER: fog; partly cloudy skies VACATION DESTINATION: tinos, greece; london, england; galway, ireland

attitudes

GREATEST DREAM: having the best of both worlds--being a capulet emissary to maintain family honor while also remaining true to herself and relying on her roots, her morals, her integrity MOST AT EASE WHEN: having movie nights with maeve; walking along the castelvecchio at dawn; alone in the cathedral; at home relaxing; pillowtalking with easton LEAST AT EASE WHEN: in the presence of rafaella; in the presence of grace; doing capulet business WORST POSSIBLE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN: being forced to kill or be killed BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT: surviving as innocently as she can while living in a world that demands violence, death, and destruction BIGGEST REGRET: saints don’t regret--they repent and move on BIGGEST SECRET: classified TOP PRIORITIES: family; integrity; morality; protection (in no particular order)

#toeing the line of treason [about]#/ *insert 'it's been 84 years...' gif*#/ guess who's tardy to the party again #/ meeeeeee #/ better late than never tho right #c: brielle/beatrice #c: maeve/miranda #c: easton/edmund #c: rafaella/roseline #c: theodora/titania #c: tiberius/tybalt #c: mikael/macbeth

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Women risk losing decades of workplace progress due to COVID-19 – here’s how companies can prevent that

Moms usually tend to maintain the children whereas fathers get to do their jobs. miodrag ignjatovic/E+ through Getty Pictures

American ladies have made strides within the office over the previous half-century when it comes to earnings, employment and careers – in no small half due to the efforts of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The COVID-19 pandemic dangers undoing many of those beneficial properties in a matter of months. With out concrete motion, I imagine a technology of ladies could by no means absolutely recuperate.

One group of ladies who’re at specific danger are these in skilled fields. Whereas lucky sufficient to have high quality jobs, many are being compelled by the elevated calls for of kid care to scale back working hours – or to cease working altogether. Moms have at all times dealt with extra of a family’s little one care than fathers have, however it has change into additional lopsided since lockdowns started earlier this yr.

Consequently, a couple of in 4 ladies are contemplating downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce fully, in keeping with a examine of 317 firms launched Sept. 30. And the newest jobs report out on Oct. 2 discovered that ladies’s participation charge within the labor market continues to fall sooner than for males.

With faculties throughout the nation struggling to open lecture rooms for in-person studying, many ladies can have little selection however to both proceed juggling the wants of their kids with the calls for of their jobs or surrender on the latter. The longer the pandemic goes on, the extra it threatens to trigger everlasting injury to ladies’s means to advance of their careers and earn extra revenue.

Nevertheless, this final result is just not inevitable. As an professional in enterprise ethics, I imagine firms have the flexibility – and responsibility – to forestall many of those unfavourable outcomes.

Baby care duties

The pandemic has uncovered the vulnerability of all working ladies.

Since April, for instance, ladies – particularly Black ladies – have misplaced jobs at a lot greater charges than males, largely as a result of they have an inclination to carry jobs in sectors which were most devastated by the pandemic, comparable to service, journey and retail.

On the identical time, ladies do a majority of the low-paid important jobs. Girls make up 77% of well being care staff, 77% of lecturers, 94% of kid care staff and 70% of cashiers – jobs that are typically underpaid and undervalued and likewise put them at larger danger of contracting COVID-19.

Nevertheless it’s skilled ladies, comparable to legal professionals, analysts, engineers and different executives, who’ve essentially the most to lose due to the good advances they’ve made of their careers in contrast with ladies a technology in the past – even when there’s nonetheless a methods to go to attain gender equality.

Since ladies are typically answerable for organizing little one care for his or her households, the calls for on their time have elevated considerably in the course of the pandemic. A examine wanting on the time frame previous to the primary widespread U.S. outbreak in February by the primary peak in April confirmed that moms with younger kids had diminished their work hours 4 to 5 instances greater than fathers, exacerbating the gender hole in work hours by 20% to 50%.

One other examine, which examined knowledge from the Census Family Pulse survey in late April and early Might, discovered that over 80% of U.S. adults who weren’t working as a result of they needed to care for his or her kids not at school or daycare had been ladies.

And with the varsity yr at present in full swing, ladies proceed to quote little one care at a a lot greater charge than males do as a motive that they don’t seem to be in a position to work. Administration consultancy Boston Consulting Group discovered ladies are spending 15 extra hours per week on home labor in the course of the pandemic than males. And Catalyst, a nonprofit centered on serving to firms higher serve ladies, reported that ladies are twice as doubtless as males to be answerable for homeschooling.

We all know that a part of the rationale for all of that is due to office norms and societal gender biases. A few of it, nevertheless, has to do with what’s most sensible for a household. If somebody wants to scale back hours, households will select the one that makes much less – and normally, that’s the lady. And since ladies additionally are likely to work fewer hours and usually tend to work part-time, their jobs are the decrease precedence when there’s a disruption.

Nevertheless it’s not simply moms. Girls with out kids are additionally extra prone to be in caregiving roles, much more so in the course of the pandemic. Two-thirds of caregivers within the U.S. are ladies, that means they supply day by day or common assist to kids, adults or folks with persistent sicknesses or disabilities – and are additionally susceptible to dropping job-related floor attributable to stress and burnout.

What firms can do

Fortuitously, firms can do quite a bit to melt the impression and offset disparities altogether.

It begins with communication. The very first thing firms ought to do is survey their staff to find out what they want. The outcomes can information the sorts of insurance policies that might finest handle staff’ distinctive considerations and conditions.

No matter administration modifications are made, it’s crucial that companies talk clearly and sometimes with all staff and set acceptable and cheap workloads. Given the elevated strains staff are beneath, it’s additionally very useful to prepare and distribute psychological well being assets and encourage staff to make use of them.

Elevated flexibility is one thing all ladies want proper now. Girls caring for younger kids particularly want extra flexibility to assist them juggle competing calls for on their time.

Versatile work can imply many issues, comparable to permitting staff to proceed working from house even after others return to the workplace, serving to them stability hours and scheduling key conferences and different duties at specific instances. For instance, many mother and father are driving their kids to highschool to keep away from the bus, so firms might help by merely not scheduling vital conferences at widespread pickup and drop-off instances. In my very own division, some shared their private calendars with administration to assist with this type of scheduling.

Different households could have their kids house on a regular basis due to on-line college or little one care points, so recording conferences and occasions for individuals who can not attend – or who’ve disruptions – will guarantee everybody has entry to vital data.

Nevertheless it’s not nearly offering flexibility to ladies. Males want flexibility too to allow them to deal with extra of the kid care duties – together with after having a child – permitting ladies to spend extra time doing their skilled jobs. Some males have been reporting that they don’t have the identical flexibility as ladies to handle household care even after they say they need or must tackle extra of the duties.

And when staff expect a child, providing equal go away to each moms and dads could make an enormous distinction in serving to ladies keep within the workforce and advance of their careers in the course of the pandemic. Most states and corporations have insurance policies which might be extra beneficiant to moms than fathers – usually twice as a lot.

Yet one more step firms can take is to extra actively help with little one care, whether or not by offering outright subsidies or just data and steerage about accessible assets.

Corporations also can right for a few of these points throughout efficiency opinions by adjusting unrealistic productiveness expectations.

Serving to ladies thrive

Corporations want to grasp how gender bias additional disadvantages ladies throughout instances of disaster. Girls are sometimes penalized for being “seen caregivers,” whereas fathers profit from a “fatherhood bonus.”

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And even when firms have supportive insurance policies in place, there’s usually a disconnect in how these insurance policies are applied and built-in.

That’s why I imagine the perfect and most vital technique for making certain ladies thrive and proceed to make beneficial properties in enterprise – and society – is to extend illustration and inclusion in any respect ranges of planning and decision-making.

Stephanie M.H. Moore doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or organisation that may profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their educational appointment.

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The coronavirus pandemic is forcing India’s children out of school and into farms and factories to work, worsening a child-labour problem that was already one of the most dire in the world.

Sixteen-year-old Maheshwari Munkalapally and her 15-year-old sister stopped attending lessons when virtually the entire economy was brought to a halt during the world’s biggest lockdown. Munkalapally’s mother and older sister lost their jobs as housemaids in Hyderabad, the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana. The younger girls, who had been living with their grandmother in a nearby village, were forced to become farmhands along with their mother, in order to survive.

“Working under the sun was difficult as we were never used to it,” Munkalapally said. “But we have to work at least to buy rice and other groceries.”

It’s difficult to quantify the number of children affected since the pandemic erupted, but civil society groups are rescuing more of them from forced labour and warn that many others are being compelled to work in cities because of the migrant labour shortage there.

Even before the outbreak, India was struggling to keep children in school. A 2018 study by DHL International GmBH estimated that more than 56 million children were out of school in India -- more than double the combined number across Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The cost to India’s economy, in terms of lost productivity, was projected at $6.79 billion, or 0.3% of gross domestic product.

Of those children not in school, 10.1 million are working, either as a ‘main worker’ or as a ‘marginal worker,’ according to the International Labour Organization.

Global Trend Global child labour had been gradually declining in the past two decades, but the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to reverse that trend, according to the ILO. As many as 60 million people are expected to fall into poverty this year alone, and that inevitably drives families to send children out to work. A joint report by the ILO and United Nations Children’s Fund estimates that a 1 percentage point rise in poverty leads to at least a 0.7 percentage point increase in child labour.

Indonesia, the world’s fourth most-populous nation, is another country that will see large numbers of children from vulnerable families drop out of school and into the workforce. The ILO estimates about 11 million are at risk of being exploited as child labourers under current conditions, especially in the less-developed eastern parts of the country, like Sulawesi islands, Nusa Tenggara and Papua.

Economic Loss

In India, home to more young people than any other country in the world, this lost generation of children will have substantial effects on Asia’s third-largest economy: lower productivity and earning potential, unrealized tax revenue, increased poverty levels and pressure for more government handouts.

“Even prior to the pandemic, numbers of children out of school in India and in child labour were high,” said Ramya Subrahmanian, the chief of research on child rights and protection at Unicef-Innocenti in Florence, Italy. “An even bigger issue will be for those children who are due to enter school during this time. If these children face delays in entering school, there may be an increase in the numbers of never-enrolled children, which could in turn push up child labour numbers.”

ALSO READ: ILO hails 'historic first' global convention to combat child labour

The Indian constitution provides free and compulsory education for all children in the age group of six to 14 years as a fundamental right. While Munkalapally and her sister are no longer covered by it because of their age, they are protected by the local law on child labour, which prohibits employment of adolescents between the age of 14 and 18 from working in any hazardous or dangerous occupations. The same law bars children under the age of 14 in any form of occupation except as a child artist, or in a family business. Forced labour

“At a household level, it’s hard to differentiate whether children are involved or not,” says Dheeraj, a program manager at Praxis: Institute for Participatory Practices, who uses only one name. The jobs may still be hazardous and against the law -- small-scale businesses such as matchbox-making can be run from home -- but the difficulty in identifying such labour leaves children open to exploitation.

Bonded labour, where people are forced to work for creditors to pay off their loans, is another avenue where families send their children to work.

A total of 591 children were rescued from forced work and bonded labour from different parts of India during the lockdown by Bachpan Bachao Andolan, a civil society group on children’s rights, founded by Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi.

“Once the lockdown is lifted and normal manufacturing activity resumes, factory owners will look to cover their financial losses by employing cheap labour,” the group said in a statement. NGOs point to the fact that the real spike in child labour is yet to come. When economic activity begins accelerating, there is a risk of returning migrants taking children along with them to the cities.

“When hotels reopen, construction work starts, the railways get back on track, when everything opens up, this community that has returned will be the main source that take our children to the cities,” said Abhishek Kumar, program coordinator at SOS Children’s Villages.

ALSO READ: Lockdown has hurt education of 247 mn school kids in India: UNICEF report

Children may be seen as a stop-gap measure to fill jobs left vacant by migrant labourers who fled cities for their rural homes during the lockdown.

“The burden has shifted to the poor households within urban areas,” said Rahul Sapkal, an assistant professor at the Centre for Labour Studies in the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.

While children aren’t exactly engaging in heavy labour usually carried out by adults, if parents take their children along for support in their jobs, even if it’s to avoid leaving them at home, a precedent is set, and such activity is normalized, he said.

Mukalapally mother, Venkatamma, is unhappy that her children are now forced to work, but cannot think of any alternative. The money they make is still not enough.

“Vegetables, rice, spices, soap, we still cannot afford these despite the four of us working,” she says. “It would be better if we could go back. In Hyderabad, even if the work is difficult, the pay is better.”

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Assignment 6 Final Draft:How can the responsibility for population control be balanced between more and less developed nations?

Figure 1. “Depicts 320,000 light bulbs, equal to the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the United States every minute from inefficient residential electricity usage (inefficient wiring, computers in sleep mode, etc.)” (Jordan 2008a).

“Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us” -Sir David Attenborough (Miller and Spoolman 2016, 119). Maybe the coronavirus is nature’s cry for help...

The world population is approaching 8 billion people (Worldometer 2020). As the population grows, we use more of the earth’s natural resources, our ecological footprints expand and degrade the natural capital that keeps us alive and supports our lifestyles and economies. Three major factors contributed to our oversized population:

Emergence of early and modern agriculture which increased food production

Additional tech helped humans expand into almost all of the world’s climate zones and habitats

Death rates dropped sharply with improved sanitation and health care (antibiotics and vaccines)

It’s unclear how many people the earth can sustain, but there has been rapid population growth in the past 200 years. The world’s population is unevenly distributed between the global north and south, with less-developed nations containing more people. The current view is that we have already exceeded some of the limits of population growth. This is clear in our extreme degradation of the environment.

Figure 2. “Depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river)” … “Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning” (Jordan 2008b). Chris Jordan has an interesting and effective approach to making meaning out of numbers.

However, our economic view has not come to agree with this. Our unnatural appetite for endless growth is insatiable. The economy cannot grow forever (New Economics Foundation 2020). This growth-based economy does not even prioritize human quality of life for most people. Instead, it relies on the efficiency of workers as cogs in the corporate machine to benefit the top 1%. If society focused on having a more meaningful life, our value systems would be altered (Koehler 2008). We need to invest in social and natural capital rather than just financial capital. We can follow the Netherlands in their Plenitude economy which focuses on well-being rather than efficiency and expansion. This model suggests we hire more workers who work less to increase the number of people in the workforce along with free time of those workers. Our current model does not support this type of change due to the increasing operational costs of labor (New Dream 2011). The Steady-state model, however, would support this type of change. This model suggests we halt the growth of wealth, population and therefore the economy. It was applied to ecological economics by Herman Daly, who recommended government regulate and implement this mode of economics. Measures already exist which lean towards this model, such as the limiting of consumption through plastic bag bans. A movement which represents the promotion of these types of economies is the Degrowth movement of the 1970s. Their 3 main goals were to:

Reduce the environmental impact of human activity

Redistribute income and wealth both within and between countries

Promote the transition from a materialistic to a convivial and participatory society.

The movement saw the model of sustainable development as an oxymoron, as any form of development was seen as unsustainable (Wikipedia, n.d.A).

The plenitude economy, steady state economy and degrowth movement prioritize the average individual rather than potential stakeholders, and we should use our voting power to vote people into office who advocate for our quality of life.

Educating and Empowering Women to Decrease Population Size

A key factor affecting birth and death rates is the average number of children born to women within a population. There are two types of fertility rates: replacement-level and total. Replacement-level is the average number of children that couples in a population must bear to replace themselves (2.1 children). Total Fertility rate (TFR) is the average number of children born to the childbearing population. TFR must equal replacement-level consistently to halt population growth.

The US population is third largest at over 329,000,000 and still growing due to baby boomers and longer life expectancy, immigration (legal and illegal). There is a net gain of one person every 24 seconds due to one birth every 9 seconds, one death every 11 seconds, and one international migrant every 44 seconds (United States Census Bureau 2020). Immigration has made this country more culturally diverse, which increases economic growth as these people work and start businesses. Migration is also a key factor affecting population, but discouraging immigration is not an adequate solution to the population issue.

The more adequate solutions are through reducing poverty through economic development, elevating the status of women and encouraging family planning. Women tend to have fewer children if they are educated, can control their own fertility, earn an income of their own and live in societies that don’t suppress girls and women. Currently, only about 30% of the world’s girls are enrolled in secondary education. Poor women who cannot read often have an avg of 5-7 children, compared with 2 or fewer children in societies where most women can read. This statistic outlines the global need for all children (regardless of gender) to get at least an elementary school education. As women in less-developed nations take charge of their lives and reproduction, populations will stabilize, human health will be improved, poverty and environmental degradation will be reduced and there will be more access to basic human rights.

In addition to educating women on a basic level, family planning can also aid in lowering TFR. Family planning provides education and clinical services that can help couples choose how many children to have and when to have them. Each dollar spent on family planning saves $10-$16 in health, education and social service costs by preventing unwanted birth. However, in many cultures, males dominate impoverished societies, which leads to early marriage of ⅓ of girls.

Women should be given the tools to limit family size such as access to education and birth control (and contraception), however I do not believe anyone has the right to tell a woman whether or not she can have children. It is important that children are not the only option made available.

Green Cities

Populations are especially dense in cities. More than half of the world’s population resides in urban areas. 3 major trends of urbanization include:

The percentage of urban global population has grown sharply and projected to continue growing

Then numbers and sizes of urban areas are increasing

Poverty is increasingly urbanized, mostly in less developed countries

Figure 3. Megacities with 10 million or more people (Miller and Spoolman 2016, 606).

Concentrating people in cities has helped protect biodiversity by reducing destruction and degradation of wildlife habitat. However, older cities have deteriorating services, aging infrastructure and carry beyond their intended capacity. Additionally urban sprawl – the growth of low-density development on the outskirts of cities and towns –has allowed people to live near, but not in cities. This lifestyle degrades natural habitats and forces people to drive almost everywhere. Dependence on motor vehicles for transportation results in high emissions, which contribute to climate change. Some solutions to discourage use of cars have been full-cost pricing of gasoline, tolls, and car sharing initiatives. Mayor Bloomberg tried to implement congestion pricing (a fee on cars entering Manhattan during peak hours) as part of PlaNYC, but it was cancelled due to many complaints from commuters. Additionally, it was criticized because the underlying assumption that people could use mass transit was incorrect; many subways were used to full capacity, and the tracks allowed no more room to add trains (Wikipedia. n.d.B).

The major urban resource and environmental problems in cities include high levels of resource use, waste, pollution and poverty. It is increasingly difficult to maintain sustainability in the face of growing population and higher resource use per person (large ecological footprints).

Figure 4. Natural Capital Degradation. (Miller and Spoolman 2016, 610).

People living in cities lack vegetation and green space, and don’t benefit from their ecosystem services (air purification, generation of oxygen, removal of atmospheric CO2, control of soil erosion and wildlife habitat). Pollution can be attributed due to the density and number of people found in cities. Poverty is also common, and impoverished city dwellers are subject to severe air and water pollution. A solution to poverty in Brazil and Peru was legal recognition and titles to land. This applied permanence has allowed impoverished groups to improve their living conditions and eventually become productive working citizens who contributed to tax revenues which pay for government programs which can assist the poor. I would argue, however, this is based on the assumption that all people in poverty have a desire to contribute to a system that has failed to serve them, which I’m not sure is entirely accurate.

Cities can become more sustainable and livable through citywide initiatives and lifestyle changes. If people chose alternative modes of transport, recycled or reused most waste, grew much of their food, protected biodiversity by preserving surrounding land, and generated carbon-neutral energy, we would be on a sustainable track. Cities should exist for people, not cars, and environmental justice must be considered through any sustainability initiative.

I believe cities have the potential to exist as sustainability hubs, due to city dwellers’ lack of reliance on cars. However, they should not be the only places where sustainability and sustainable business is supported. We need to balance the avoidance of urban sprawl with the fact that while people don’t want to live in cities, they tend to be the epicenters of success and flourishing economies.

The question of how social change occurs still remains. If we rely on the government too highly, we may end up with plans that don’t accurately address the problem. On the other hand, relying on grassroots community movements, like Transition Towns, put a large amount of ownness on individual action and self-sufficiency that this economy and society does not support (Wikipedia. n.d.C). The balance of both government and individual action is essential in this movement. Additionally, the global north needs to decrease the size of their carbon footprint, and give back to the communities we have drained of resources for too long.

Figure 5. “Depicts 92,500 agricultural plant seeds, equal to one hundredth of one percent of the number of people in the world today who suffer from malnutrition. To illustrate the entire statistic with 925 million seeds would require ten thousand prints of this image, covering more than eight football fields.” (Jordan, 2011).

Word Count: 2,200 words

Question: Do more-developed countries have a responsibility to aid sustainable development in less-developed countries? How can they balance doing so with the history of colonization?

Works Cited

Jordan, Chris. “Light Bulbs.” 2008. Running The Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. Online Collection. http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#light-bulbs.

Jordan, Chris. “Oil Barrels.” 2008. Running The Numbers: An American Self-Portrait. Online Collection. http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#oil-barrels.

Jordan, Chris. “Stone of The Sun.” 2011. Running the Numbers II: Portraits of Global Mass Culture. Online Collection. http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn2/#maya.

Koehler, Berrett. “More than Money- What is ‘The Good Life’ Parable.” YouTube video, 3:05. Posted August 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7JlI959slY.

Miller, G. Tyler, and Scott E. Spoolman. 2016. Living in the Environment: Nineteenth Edition, 119-616. Canada: Cengage Learning.

New Dream. “Visualizing a Plenitude Economy.” YouTube video, 4:51. Posted September 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HR-YrD_KB0M.

New Economics Foundation. 2010. “The Impossible Hamster.” Vimeo video, 1:10. Posted January 2010. https://vimeo.com/8947526.

United States Census Bureau. 2020. “U.S. and World Population Clock.” Accessed February 26, 2020. https://www.census.gov/popclock/.

Worldometer. 2020. “World Population.” Accessed February 26, 2020. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/.

Wikipedia. n.d. “Degrowth.” Last modified February 17, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth.

Wikipedia. n.d. “PlaNYC.” Last modified November 1, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlaNYC

Wikipedia. n.d. “Transition Town.” Last modified December 14, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_town

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The Artwork of Studying a brand new Activity Without the need to Go away Your property

Tend not to be scared to obtain help with a difficult issue. It's possible you'll discover that math just isn't your strong accommodate when teaching your son or daughter, which suggests you ought to search on homeschool local community message boards for help, or call on loved ones or friends. It can be ideal to locate somebody that can offer you a better knowledge with the materials and aid your child prosper.

Tend not to be expecting homeschooling to work seamlessly suitable in the get started. It could choose as many as a calendar year before you decide to settle into a good movement with homeschooling. While you may have educated you about the process in advance of beginning, the skill to help make all of it function efficiently can take some time to create. Workout persistence and you may be a lot more successful.

Should you house university your sons or daughters, it truly is vital they nevertheless get engage in time. Simply because they are really having schooled in the home will not signify they should be inside the entire time. The moment they may be carried out with their day by day education and get the job done, make it possible for them to go exterior and enjoy for any minor while.

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Involve your kid's hobbies inside their finding out. If they enjoy setting up design cars, get reference books for them to read through and include setting up an automobile being a venture. Educate them regarding how an engine performs, how automobiles impact the ecosystem and also utilize the speed and length a vehicle goes in math classes.

Any time you have a selection of ages as part of your homeschool ecosystem, you should use more mature students to show the younger kinds. This can be very true of reading through, wherever those that examine effectively can read through to the young young children, mentioning text they might not manage to study on their own possess nevertheless.

Just because you abide by a curriculum from a further source, isn't going to indicate you need to follow it to your letter. There are actually usually going to be pieces of a curriculum that don't match your child's finding out model or routine. Be adaptable with a curriculum and do not be scared to fall people areas that aren't fitting for the academic program.

Find out what your state has in position in terms of homeschooling restrictions. Some states have quite rigid policies with a lot of hoops you will need to bounce via, so that you must find out what your state involves of you before you start. Some states are more lax, so start out exploring now!

Assign your sons or daughters chores with the thirty day period. In the event you give out assigned chores for the entire thirty day period, they know what is expected of them to the future 30 days. For those who use a day by day or perhaps a weekly chore sheet, they could very easily turn into bewildered on precisely what is their obligation to take care of for that point.

When you house faculty your child, you take on over the part of trainer. Really, you may also have to be the cafeteria employee, bodily education and learning mentor and possibly even a counselor. Take into consideration the responsibilities just about every title carries while you prepare out your every day routine and regimen. Prepare lunches in advance, timetable out of doors time and make oneself accessible for psychological assistance and determination.

Decide what motivates your kids. A similar issue will likely not motivate all kids, so find a motivational software for every boy or girl and use it. Preserve your benefits age correct and reward your kids for accomplishing every single in their school plans with the calendar year. They're going to work hard for your things that make them happy.

Are you able to pay for to quit your career and homeschool? Have you designed a budget to understand? Draft a spending budget within your recent earnings and expenses. Now, get rid of the revenue of the individual who is going to be keeping household. Also, consist of the expense of supplies, this kind of as lesson resources, producing devices, paper, and so forth. Is it possible to pay for it now?

When you want your house schooled student(s) to find out just as much or maybe more as their customarily schooled counterparts, remember that you do not have to stick to any guidelines when you find yourself the trainer. Try diverse educating and finding out methods to determine what functions finest for the student. Also, take into account employing a reward plan to produce learning additional fascinating.

When you homeschool your young ones, quite a few fiscal hurdles will likely have to generally be get over. Is it possible to afford for one particular mum or dad to stay dwelling instead of work? How will you shell out for all the provides, lesson product and outings vital to provide an excellent studying ecosystem? Think carefully prior to deciding to engage down this route.

Set aside time for family entertaining. Positive, you invest all day long extended with each other operating on faculty do the job and keeping the house as a way. But, would you ever truly have fun collectively? Setup each day and time and energy to have motion picture night or even spouse and children sport night and that means you can love some time you expend collectively.

When instructing preschoolers with more mature small children make an effort to put aside time for one particular on a single. Have a region with crafts and particular toys for them to perform with. Have the more mature young children also assist instruct the young little ones. This may help them both to know, plus the more mature youngsters will value your self-assurance of their skill to show.

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Many mothers and fathers are nervous and insecure regarding their ability to effectively home-school their little ones. To bolster your self-confidence, take into consideration the amount of you might have previously taught the child you propose to household college. Chances are; they have uncovered everything they know from you, like critical instructional fundamentals like vocabulary.

After you go on holiday vacation, just take your lesson system along with you. Involve your getaway in your home classroom in order that your youngsters can genuinely enjoy their schooling. Have them continue to keep a scrapbook in the event, or take a video which they change into an awesome loved ones experience afterwards. Acquire them to cultural spots and train them with regards to the place, then have them reenact wars or vital historic conditions. There is certainly a lot of to understand around the environment, don't enable it go them by!

When teaching your kids, offer them with hands-on lessons. For instance, if they are learning a few foreign culture, want to create recipes from that area. For instance, when discovering about Stalin they might cook dinner perogies and cabbage rolls. If finding out about Planet War II, you can have them cook schnitzel, pasta and sushi as they experience the assorted Axis nations around the world within their understanding. When 1 learns with all of their senses lively, they will take in additional facts.

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‘When It Starts Getting Into Your Local Hospital, It Becomes Real’

The folding chairs outside the windows appeared late last month, after the maintenance staff at St. James Parish Hospital labeled each window with a patient room number so families and friends could at least see their loved ones battling COVID-19.

Yet even this small solace the Louisiana rural hospital can offer is tainted for clinical nurse educator Leslie Fisher. She has to remind the family members to take shifts to properly social distance from one another — even when their loved ones could be in their final moments.

The difficult conversations feel unceasingly cruel, she said, but she feels she has an obligation to protect these people, too. All she can do is look them in the eyes and say, “I’m so, so sorry.”

Folding chairs outside the hospital’s windows allow families and friends to see their loved ones battling COVID-19.(Courtesy of St. James Parish Hospital)

This is the new normal for St. James Parish Hospital, a 25-bed rural hospital about 45 minutes from pandemic hot spot New Orleans. Its county — or parish, as they’re called in Louisiana — of 22,000 residents had confirmed more than 175 cases and six deaths as of Tuesday. That earns it the horror of being one of the hardest-hit counties nationwide for cases per capita, placing its rural hospital that sits just blocks off the east bank of the Mississippi River onto the front lines with a continuous swell of patients.

Previously battered by hurricanes and a flood, the hospital is used to more than its fair share of disasters. But, in the aftermath, they have historically been able to rally help from around the country, CEO Mary Ellen Pratt said by phone.

Now, communities nationwide must fight their own battles, leaving St. James Parish Hospital to make do with limited staffing, testing, personal protective equipment and mechanical gear. Although working with limited resources is something rural hospitals know how to do, Pratt said, this is something entirely different.

Before the pandemic, the hospital housed about eight inpatients a day. Almost overnight, it’s up to 20 inpatients some days, the majority of them with suspected COVID-19. Dozens of positive cases, with many more feared, have passed through its doors.

To add to the challenge of the crush, the patients’ conditions are more severe than those of typical patients, especially for a hospital without an official intensive care unit.

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Although the hospital has had two ventilators the staff can use before transferring patients to more advanced facilities, the wait times to transfer patients to other hospitals continue to lengthen. Pratt said she is dismayed at how often she’s had to use the ventilators so far.

“We’re intubating every single day, several patients a day, when we maybe do it on a monthly basis,” she said. “It’s crazy.”

The hospital is planning to bring five more ventilators online in the next few days — three are rentals, one is a converted anesthesia machine, and a staff member drove six hours round trip to pick up one from another rural Louisiana hospital.

The bigger hospitals 45 minutes away continue to be packed with their own COVID-19 patients. If those hospitals begin to deny transfer requests, Pratt and her staff may be forced to make unthinkable decisions about rationing care.

Fisher can hardly speak of the possibility.

Jared Olivier, an MRI technician at St. James Parish Hospital, drove six hours round trip to pick up a ventilator from another rural Louisiana hospital.(Courtesy of St. James Parish Hospital)

“My biggest fear and the fear of the entire hospital is that we’re going to have to end up choosing who we are going to ventilate,” she said. “I want to ventilate everyone. I want everyone to live.”

An Onslaught Of Patients

Community member Maitland John Faucheux III — who goes by “Spuddy” — didn’t think there was much to this whole coronavirus thing at the beginning of March, which feels like an eternity ago now to him. The 62-year-old owner of Spuddy’s Cajun Cooking, which is about 18 minutes from the hospital, said that in retrospect he was a bit hardheaded about the whole thing.

But then the Rev. Leon Franklin, a 60-year-old Baptist pastor in St. James and a “jolly” customer for years, died at St. James Parish Hospital of COVID-19 in mid-March.

“When it starts getting into your local hospital, it becomes real,” Faucheux said.

The hospital, on the other hand, had been preparing since January. As soon as it had its first suspected case, a patient who arrived on March 13, it activated its emergency operations. As more people of all ages came in complaining of a fever, cough and respiratory symptoms, Pratt ratcheted down the hospital’s five entrances to three. Anyone who enters now is checked for fever. Hospital staff also redesigned the internal layout to offer more separation from COVID-19 cases.

Elective surgeries, therapies, tests and labs — which provided about 80% of the hospital’s revenue — were canceled. Pratt said she’s been too busy dealing with the crush of patients to even think about the implications for the hospital’s bottom line. That’s a real concern because even before the virus struck, many rural hospitals nationwide limped along financially, with more than 120 closing in the past decade.

Typical days in the emergency room start by triaging suspected coronavirus patients by measuring the oxygen saturation of their blood, the hospital’s emergency room medical director Dr. Will Freeman said. For those patients in better shape, hospital staff must spend a fair amount of time convincing them it’s safer to be at home.

Top of mind is how to manage the diminishing amounts of personal protective equipment: Nurses are each given one N95 mask a day and put a protective mask on top of it.

Testing has been another frustration.

“We’re still limited,” Freeman said. “Not every person is getting tested, for darned sure.”

Freeman urged other rural hospitals nationwide to start planning today.

“If you’re one of the fortunate areas that doesn’t have many cases — that doesn’t think it’s coming — it’s going to come,” he said. “One day, it’s going to be there.”

The Underlying Fear

The surrounding community has stepped up — sewing cloth mask protectors and making a big sign outside the hospital that says “HEROES WORK HERE.” Using Facebook, a resident raised thousands of dollars to buy the staff food and snacks.

Using Facebook, a county resident raised thousands of dollars to buy the staff food and snacks.(Courtesy of St. James Parish Hospital)

But the personal toll and sacrifice have been heavy for staff. They’re working all hours of the day, in enhanced roles — techs who normally assist with surgery are working as aides in the COVID-19 unit, Pratt said. Employees are being repurposed to clean rooms for infection control.

Fisher’s face is another marker — she has a bandage across her nose from the constant digging of her goggles into her skin.

Every day, it seems, someone else’s family member or a member of the community needs treatment, Freeman said.

“We take care of all of our patients like they’re our family, because they are our family,” he said.

Which is one of the staff’s greatest concerns: what they’re bringing home. Fisher sent her kids, ages 7 and 11, away to her parents’ house and now FaceTimes her girls each night, which she said is incredibly difficult.

“My child asked me the other day why am I a nurse,” she said. “And my answer was God called me to be one.”

Laurie Webb, the hospital’s cardiopulmonary director and a registered respiratory therapist, started sobbing when talking about her own 4-year-old and 9-month-old. She isn’t able to send them away because of their ages. Her nightly routine involves stripping naked in front of her patio — “it’s pretty humiliating” — putting her clothes in a bag, Lysol-ing her shoes and heading straight for the bathroom.

“I’m completely terrified of what I’m bringing to my children and husband, but I can’t stay away from my family,” she said through tears.

As of Tuesday, 16 of the hospital’s more than 200 employees had tested positive for the coronavirus.

During one call with KHN, Pratt, the CEO, coughed.

“I am feeling OK,” she said. “I’m just tired.”

On her mind, always, is what happens if more and more and more patients keep coming — and the hospital runs out of ventilators.

“I can’t imagine. I don’t want to think about it,” she said. “I pray that we don’t get there.”

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‘When It Starts Getting Into Your Local Hospital, It Becomes Real’

Folding chairs outside the hospital’s windows allow families and friends to see their loved ones battling COVID-19.(Courtesy of St. James Parish Hospital)

To add to the challenge of the crush, the patients’ conditions are more severe than those of typical patients, especially for a hospital without an official intensive care unit.

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“We’re intubating every single day, several patients a day, when we maybe do it on a monthly basis,” she said. “It’s crazy.”

Fisher can hardly speak of the possibility.

Jared Olivier, an MRI technician at St. James Parish Hospital, drove six hours round trip to pick up a ventilator from another rural Louisiana hospital.(Courtesy of St. James Parish Hospital)

An Onslaught Of Patients

But then the Rev. Leon Franklin, a 60-year-old Baptist pastor in St. James and a “jolly” customer for years, died at St. James Parish Hospital of COVID-19 in mid-March.

“When it starts getting into your local hospital, it becomes real,” Faucheux said.

Top of mind is how to manage the diminishing amounts of personal protective equipment: Nurses are each given one N95 mask a day and put a protective mask on top of it.

Testing has been another frustration.

“We’re still limited,” Freeman said. “Not every person is getting tested, for darned sure.”

Freeman urged other rural hospitals nationwide to start planning today.

“If you’re one of the fortunate areas that doesn’t have many cases — that doesn’t think it’s coming — it’s going to come,” he said. “One day, it’s going to be there.”

The Underlying Fear

Using Facebook, a county resident raised thousands of dollars to buy the staff food and snacks.(Courtesy of St. James Parish Hospital)

Fisher’s face is another marker — she has a bandage across her nose from the constant digging of her goggles into her skin.

Every day, it seems, someone else’s family member or a member of the community needs treatment, Freeman said.

“We take care of all of our patients like they’re our family, because they are our family,” he said.

“My child asked me the other day why am I a nurse,” she said. “And my answer was God called me to be one.”

“I’m completely terrified of what I’m bringing to my children and husband, but I can’t stay away from my family,” she said through tears.

As of Tuesday, 16 of the hospital’s more than 200 employees had tested positive for the coronavirus.

During one call with KHN, Pratt, the CEO, coughed.

“I am feeling OK,” she said. “I’m just tired.”

On her mind, always, is what happens if more and more and more patients keep coming — and the hospital runs out of ventilators.

“I can’t imagine. I don’t want to think about it,” she said. “I pray that we don’t get there.”

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‘When It Starts Getting Into Your Local Hospital, It Becomes Real’

Folding chairs outside the hospital’s windows allow families and friends to see their loved ones battling COVID-19.(Courtesy of St. James Parish Hospital)

To add to the challenge of the crush, the patients’ conditions are more severe than those of typical patients, especially for a hospital without an official intensive care unit.

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“We’re intubating every single day, several patients a day, when we maybe do it on a monthly basis,” she said. “It’s crazy.”

Fisher can hardly speak of the possibility.

Jared Olivier, an MRI technician at St. James Parish Hospital, drove six hours round trip to pick up a ventilator from another rural Louisiana hospital.(Courtesy of St. James Parish Hospital)

An Onslaught Of Patients

But then the Rev. Leon Franklin, a 60-year-old Baptist pastor in St. James and a “jolly” customer for years, died at St. James Parish Hospital of COVID-19 in mid-March.

“When it starts getting into your local hospital, it becomes real,” Faucheux said.

Top of mind is how to manage the diminishing amounts of personal protective equipment: Nurses are each given one N95 mask a day and put a protective mask on top of it.

Testing has been another frustration.

“We’re still limited,” Freeman said. “Not every person is getting tested, for darned sure.”

Freeman urged other rural hospitals nationwide to start planning today.

“If you’re one of the fortunate areas that doesn’t have many cases — that doesn’t think it’s coming — it’s going to come,” he said. “One day, it’s going to be there.”

The Underlying Fear

Using Facebook, a county resident raised thousands of dollars to buy the staff food and snacks.(Courtesy of St. James Parish Hospital)

Fisher’s face is another marker — she has a bandage across her nose from the constant digging of her goggles into her skin.

Every day, it seems, someone else’s family member or a member of the community needs treatment, Freeman said.

“We take care of all of our patients like they’re our family, because they are our family,” he said.

“My child asked me the other day why am I a nurse,” she said. “And my answer was God called me to be one.”

“I’m completely terrified of what I’m bringing to my children and husband, but I can’t stay away from my family,” she said through tears.

As of Tuesday, 16 of the hospital’s more than 200 employees had tested positive for the coronavirus.

During one call with KHN, Pratt, the CEO, coughed.

“I am feeling OK,” she said. “I’m just tired.”

On her mind, always, is what happens if more and more and more patients keep coming — and the hospital runs out of ventilators.

“I can’t imagine. I don’t want to think about it,” she said. “I pray that we don’t get there.”

from Updates By Dina https://khn.org/news/inside-louisiana-hospital-on-front-lines-of-coronavirus-pandemic/

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No doubt about it, these women, with their diverse backgrounds and different career trajectories, are powerhouses in the cybersecurity field.

Dawn Beyer senior fellow, Lockheed Martin

Dawn Beyer didn’t know it when she left her Florida home at age 17 some 30 years ago to go into the Air Force, but she was about to embark on a long career in the military, intelligence and cyber.

Over a 24-year career in the Air Force, Beyer says the military helped pay for four degrees, culminating with a doctorate in information systems from Nova Southeastern University.

Beyer says her first job in security was as a terminal area security officer where there might be an office of 10 people and only one or two desktop computers available to the staff. She says the job mostly entailed running checklist items, but gave her a background in IT security that the military put to work for more than two decades.

“I had experience in IT security, and was also trained to handle sensitive information, which fit in well with my work in IT,” Beyer says.

Then in 1998 there was a security event with an advanced persistent threat (APT) involving a nation-state that heightened Beyer’s interest and awareness in security. From that point, Beyer recognized how important the field was becoming and how important it was to national defense.

When asked about being a women in a male-dominated field, she says for most of her career, she would go into a meeting thinking about the points she wanted to make in a meeting – and never noticed that the room was all men.

“Some of my best supervisors were men. They would always support my goals and would let me work on the type of projects I was interested in,” she says.

Then in the past year Beyer was in a meeting with one of her leaders and was asked how many women participated in a recent cyber event. She said that there was only one.

“From that point on I made it more of a goal to help women work through the challenges of working in a male-dominated field,” Beyer says. “In many ways it’s not about a women’s technical capabilities, they are often brilliant. The best thing we can do is encourage women to take risks in their careers and build up their confidence.”

Beyer says Lockheed Martin works closely with local high schools, community colleges and universities to attract women into the IT and cybersecurity fields. She tries to expose interested candidates to the broad number of opportunities in cybersecurity. Beyer says many people assume cybersecurity personnel work mainly on incident response, but there are many jobs in the field, including analysts in a security intelligence center, threat research, forensics, embedded security, privacy and risk analysis and management.

“People are often limited about what they know about the field,” Beyer says. “But once I point out all the possibilities, they often say they didn’t realize cybersecurity was so broad.” – Steve Zurier

Jadee Hanson CISO, vice president of information systems, Code42

Jadee Hanson’s cybersecurity bonafides are clearly recognizable – CISO at Code42, Target’s senior director of information security – but it’s the numerous activities in which Hanson is involved that push her to Power Player status.

In her role at Code42, Hanson serves as a mentor and advocate for women, but that is only the tip of the iceberg. She often participates in speaking with local security groups on the issue of boosting the role of women in security and discusses the issue in outlets like WeAreTheCity. This organization was started in 2008 as a centralized site that houses a multitude of career development resources helping women gain new skills, grow their networks and ultimately progress in their careers, including cybersecurity.

“Jadee is not only committed to putting the protection of our customers’ data first, but is also an advocate for women in technology and drawing on diverse viewpoints to solve business challenges,” says Joe Payne, Code42’s president and CEO.

Hanson was behind having Code42 work with the Girl Scouts. In the past year Code42 has hosted two events with the Girl Scouts at which more than 150 girls earned STEM and Cybersecurity badges.

“We have to start encouraging participation at the next generation of workers. One of the ways we do this at Code42 is through a partnership with Girl Scouts. We house Girl Scouts here to get their STEM Badge or Cybersecurity Badge. In fact, we’re the first company within the River Valley region of Girl Scouts to host the Cybersecurity Badge. They’re not all going to choose a career in cybersecurity, but the thing that we’re trying to do is make sure that the younger generation knows and believes that if they do want to choose this career path, there’s a place for them,” Hanson said in a GRA Quantum article.

“The active role Jadee takes in developing her team, supporting professional networks and championing educational events with children is paving the way for women to make a bigger impact on the security industry in the future,” Code42 said about her actions.

In addition to numerous extracurricular efforts to boost the number of women in security, Hanson has also worked tirelessly internally to improve her Code42 team. This includes crafting a vision statement for the security department with a philosophy that the team should be a collaborative service organization that enables innovation rather than a mysterious, feared entity – one that says yes instead of no.

Hanson’s efforts to help others also extends outside the tech field. She is the founder of Building Without Borders, a non-profit started in 2015 with the mission to serve those in poverty-stricken locations around the world through housing services. Since April 2015 it has built 42 homes in the poorest areas of the Dominican Republic. – Doug Olenick

Priscilla Moriuchi director of strategic threat development, Recorded Future

Asia is home to some of the world’s most sophisticated state-sponsored hacking groups, but just because they share a continent doesn’t mean they operate by the same playbook.

That’s what makes Priscilla Moriuchi’s expertise so valuable: she has that unique combination of government background, cybersecurity knowledge, and geo-political experience that allows her to develop a keen understanding of foreign cyber operations.

As director of strategic threat development at cybersecurity company Recorded Future, Moriuchi serves as a preeminent expert on Asian cyber activity, with in-depth knowledge of China and North Korea. Moriuchi joined Recorded Future in April 2017 after spending 12 years at the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), most recently as its enduring threat manager, leading the agency’s East Asia cyber threats office. Among her responsibilities at the time was assessing whether China was adhering to its 2015 agreement to refrain from stealing intellectual property and trade secrets from U.S. corporate firms.

Earlier this year, Moriuchi authored a paper released during the annual RSA show revealing how China exploits social media platforms to sway the opinions of Westerners and portray China in a more sympathetic light. According to the report, Chinese state-run news agencies use social media to spread biased, English-language content that favors China’s stance on global issues such as the ongoing trade war with America.

As part of Recorded Future’s Insikt Group research team, Moriuchi has also recently investigated how China and Russia manage their respective national vulnerability databases. The team found that China is on average much faster than the U.S. at reporting the latest confirmed product vulnerabilities in its National Vulnerability Database (CCNVD). However, Recorded Future also accused China of manipulating CCNVD records to cover up evidence that the Ministry of State Security withheld public disclosure of certain vulnerabilities while it evaluated the viability of exploiting them in offensive cyber operations.

Meanwhile, research into Russia’s vulnerability database, the BDU, found it to be far less comprehensive than its American counterpart, omitting many critical bugs while focusing heavily on flaws that appear to be specifically relevant to Russian state information systems.

Moriuchi also collaborated on research into the digital behavior of North Korea’s most senior leadership. The investigation revealed that the country’s ruling elite are technologically savvy and use the internet to circumvent international sanctions, as well as generate revenue through means such as cryptocurrency theft.

Moriuchi has become a prominent voice in the cyber industry, speaking out on the need to recruit more women as skilled talent, while openly acknowledging the challenges these women can face when entering the field. – Bradley Barth

Eve Maler vice president of innovation and emerging technology, ForgeRock

A strategist and innovator in the digital identity, security and privacy space, Eve Maler has been assigned quite a few of her own “digital identities” over an accomplished 34-year career.

For starters, she earned the nickname “XMLgrrl” for her work as a co-creator of Extensible Markup Language (XML), which debuted in the late 1990s. She was later called “SAML Lady” for her role in the invention of the Security Assertion Markup Language standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties.

And she has referred to herself as “chief UMAnitarian” for founding and leading the User Managed Access Work Group that’s been developing UMA, an OAuth-based access management protocol standard. The group operates under the auspices of the non-profit Kantara Initiative, whose website describes the group’s mission as developing “specs that let an individual control the authorization of data sharing and service access made between online services on the individual’s behalf, and to facilitate interoperable implementations of the specs.”

Currently vice president of innovation and emerging technology at identity and access management provider ForgeRock, Maler drives advances in privacy and consent that enable user-controlled and compliant data sharing across web, mobile, and Internet of Things contexts.

She also directs the company’s engagement in interoperability standards such as Health Relationship Trust (HEART), which is a set of profiles that gives health care patients the power to specify how, when, and with whom their clinical data is shared. In fact, Maler co-founded and co-chairs the OpenID Foundation’s Health Relationship Trust Work Group.

Additionally, she serves as a trusted advisor to public and private forums specializing in key initiatives such as open banking, which requires strong authentication protocols.

Prior to ForgeRock, Maler was a principal analyst at Forrester Research, where she consulted with clients on such topics as emerging identity and security solutions, consumer-facing identity, distributed authorization, privacy enhancement and API security. Before that, she was named distinguished engineer of identity services at PayPal, which followed a long stint with Sun Microsystems, where she served as technology director and XML standards architect. Other key stops along her journey included Arbortext and Digital Equipment Corporation.

“Even is an extremely bright and quick technologist with deep insight into standards and politics surrounding them,” said Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at LogMein, in a recommendation posted on Maler’s LinkedIn page.

“I consider her to be one of the leading figures in user-centric identity, having contributed to many internet standards, adds John Bradley, senior architect at Yubico, in another recommendation. – Bradley Barth

Lisa Monaco partner, O’Melveny

Two years ago at the Council on Foreign Relations, Lisa Monaco, then counterterrorism advisor to President Obama, called out compromised data integrity as a serious threat going forward and stressed that the U.S. was open to using every tool in its arsenal to battle nation-state cyberinterference, noting the country just need to be nimbler and quicker on the draw.

Well-known for her work with the White House and as the assistant attorney general for mational security in the Justice Department, Monaco regularly drew praise for making cybersecurity a priority, including her leadership in the U.S.’s response to a number of security risks, cyber and otherwise, both domestically and internationally.

As the chair for the Homeland Security Principals Committee, she helped develop and coordinate policy and response to cyber threats, terror attacks and other crises. Her latest gig as a partner with O’Melveny, heading the Data Security and Privacy group with partner Steve Bunnell, leverages her 15 years of experience at Justice and stint in the Obama administration to guide clients through security-related sensitive governance, legal, regulatory and policy concerns.

A Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University Law School and at NYU’s Center on Cybersecurity, Monaco also serves as co-chair for the Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity Group, a public-private forum that includes industry leaders, former government officials, Capitol Hill leaders, and members of academia and journalism aimed at bringing cybersecurity to the forefront and putting action to words.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center on Science and International Affairs and a senior national security analyst at CNN.

After graduating Harvard and the University of Chicago Law School, Monaco clerked for Judge Jane R. Roth on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Her dedication to public service has garnered her a number of awards, including the Justice Department’s highest hone – the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service – as well as the Edmund J. Randolph Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the department. – Teri Robinson

Malini Rao vice president, information security, Deutsche Bank

With more than 18 years in cybersecurity, Malini Rao has extensive experience and expertise working globally for Fortune 500 clients in various areas of cybersecurity such as application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, security operations, governance, risk and compliance management, cyber risk management, IOT security and identity and access management.

Malini has managed large multimillion dollar projects and large teams globally. She has rich experience working in various industry verticals like financial services, retail, consumer goods, energy as well as for oil and gas industry clients globally. She has worked as a program manager, CISO and a global practice head in the various roles she has taken on over the years. – Teri Robinson

Lisa J. Sotto managing partner, New York office, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

In the 20 years since Lisa Sotto started building what eventually became the storied privacy and cybersecurity practice at Hunton Andrews Kurth, she’s helped prominent clients like Hudson’s Bay Company and Yahoo! navigate thorny privacy issues as they try to recover from massive breaches.

Sotto’s influence has been felt on boards around the country and across industry sectors that she advised on information governance issues surrounding privacy and safeguarding data. She’s worked side by side with organizations to develop and enhance formal privacy programs compliant with an array of legal and regulatory requirements worldwide, encompassing technologies such as facial recognition, wearables, retail tracking and geolocation as they emerge.

Sotto spent the better part of 2018 preparing more than 50 U.S.-based multinational clients like PepsiCo, Tiffany & Co., The Western Union Company and Proctor & Gamble to meet GDPR requirements, which took effect in May 2018. Her more recent work included helping organizations like Verisk and Rite Aid comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 by its January 1, 2020 deadline.

In 2017, she was tapped by the U.S. Department of Commerce to aid in its first joint review with the European Commission (EC) of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework for data protection compliance. Sotto brought her voluminous expertise to bear during testimony before the EC, various U.S. regulatory agencies and several EU Data Protection Agencies (DPAs).

For the Judicial Reform and Government Accountability Project funded by USAID, Sotto advised the Serbian government on the legalities of global data protection and has been invited by other governments in China, Thailand and Myanmar to inform them on global privacy and data security law. She is currently working on Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand’s lawyers’ committee and has briefed candidate Pete Buttigieg on privacy and security issues.

For the past 13 years she has been a member of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, where she is now the chairman. Sotto has worked closely with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on its global data breach notification laws report – she and FTCD Chairman Noah Phillips presented the report in Brussels last October.

She is also editor and lead author of the best-selling Privacy and Cybersecurity Law Deskbook, a treatise to guide those tasked with managing privacy and cybersecurity law issues. The book includes a roadmap for compliance with global data protection laws as well as state breach notification requirements. – Teri Robinson

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Old traditions can’t dictate the new earning model

Last week, an NRI friend rushed back to India after a parent was hospitalised. While a critical task at work needed his attention, he was apologetic about being so far away. He had been the centre of attention when he had secured grad school admissions and a high-paying job abroad.

Much has changed about the way we study, work, earn, save and invest money and how we manage our assets and wealth across generations. Yet, there is a lot that has not changed in our attitudes and beliefs. When a family ran a business, for example, being rooted to a place was traditionally important. Local clientele developed through personal relationships nourished by the head of the family. Then male children took over the business, and the patriarch’s power only fortified as he aged, in a property that was large enough to house the entire family.

The business and the property provided everything the family needed—shelter, security, support and a source of wealth and income. The rules of wealth transfer were determined in the context of that joint holding, and girls took their share as streedhan which was theirs to own and use. We have moved away from such patriarchal systems and all the above practices seem ancient and obsolete. But, we still have people building large houses for their children. It is still common for parents to marry their daughter off with gold and wealth, even if the girl is a fully qualified professional whose future income will be substantial.

Today, families spawn multiple cultures, languages and geographies. We can argue about the good old times and the bonds of tradition, but returning to those systems of joint families and businesses is not practical anymore. Many business empires have been split acrimoniously to failure and we have moved on to accepting the limitations of the traditional model in business. Public ownership of large global businesses is now the norm.

So, when we do not recognise and accept the consequences of the changed system, we create stress of the kind our NRI friend suffers. It is not uncommon to paint those who went abroad to study and work, as selfish chasers of money. But, if we accept that the asset of the modern times is not the land or the business, but the human brain and the combination of knowledge, skill and attitude it holds, it has to be mobile for being efficiently deployed to earn an optimal income. Whether we seek the most efficient use of that capability, or decide to compromise is a matter of personal choice.

Some educated women choose to quit their jobs after a child is born; retired individuals choose a new profession and continue to earn money; salaried employees quit and turn entrepreneurs; the employed moonlight in another job to enhance their incomes; housewives seek the Internet to teach math and music across the world for an hourly fee; and grandmoms have come out of the woodwork to earn sizeable ad revenues from their You-Tube channels. These are not examples of greed that discard traditions and customs. We would see these as personal choices that utilise the human asset. It is therefore important to think about how our attitudes and beliefs will need modification in the new free world of human assets, or knowledge workers who encash the brain for income and wealth.

We need conversations around the constraints and compromises these choices involve, without derisively undercutting the luxuries that money brings as not being substitute enough for love, care and attention. The locus of activity changed years ago when the erstwhile child became an earning member, thousands of miles away. The extended family understands the trade-offs and may not be able to dictate its emotional needs at a later date. The stories of children living too far away are heart-wrenching. But yearning for traditional solutions are impractical, given how much has changed in the earning model. If modern parents are seeking assisted living, building their own networks of friends and determined to not depend on anyone, including their children, they are moving with the times. Their children have not abandoned them, but care in the manner they can efficiently do, even if they cannot rush to hold their parent’s hand at short notice.

There is no golden rule about what is the right choice. There is also no scope for judgment or apology. As for the persistent foolhardiness of buying gold for the accomplished daughters’ wedding, that needs a column of its own.

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