10 Career Paths to Explore After Graduation

10 Career Paths to Explore After Graduation10 Career Paths to Explore After Graduation10 Career Paths to Explore After GraduationWhich career path is right for you?You did it Degree in hand, head held high, youre ready to take on the world. Butwhat will you do? The world is filled with opportunities, but youre not sure where a passion for, say, sociology and literature and the environment might collide into a career.Never fear theres a career for you, ready for the taking. Read on to figure out how to determine where your skill sets and passions can lead you.Here is an infographic fromenchancvshowing the different career paths you can explore after graduation.Note This article originally appeared in TheJobNetwork

New research shows how A Day Without a Woman will affect global economies

New research shows how A Day Without a Woman will affect global economiesNew research shows how A Day Without a Woman will affect global economiesLook around your office today. How many women are in it and how many of them are missing?On March 8, the organizers of the Womens March on Washington are holding A Day Without a Woman, a one-day demonstration to raise awareness of the economic injustice faced by women and people of nonbinary gender.Women are encouraged to take the day off from their jobs and take to the streets. If you cant participate in the strike, youre asked to refrain from shopping and to wear red - the color they say signifies love and sacrifice- in solidarity.Organizers said they were inspired by the success of the bodega and taxi strikes in New York City and the Day Without an Immigrant strike held last month. By showing how global economies need women to function, the organizers want to shine a light on the seen and unseen labor of women and gender-nonconforming p eople everywhere.Here are a fewfacts you can bring up today to show how women around the world are vital, significant economic force to be reckoned with- and why women at work still have far so far to go.Without women, almost half of the global workforce disappearsNew Pew Research Center analysis shows how a global day without women could crash economies. Using labor force statistics from 114 nations with data from 2010 to 2016, the Pew Research Center found that women are at least 40% of the workforce in mora than 80 countries.Sub-Saharan African countries have the most working women- but their jobs can leave them more at riskZimbabwe, Malawi, the Gambia, Liberia and Tanzania all had the highest female participation rate with at least 50% of their workers being women. But women in sub-Saharan African countries were also more likely to be doing informal employment like unpaid family work that leaves them more vulnerable.Without female educators, schools in the U.S. cannot functionSc hool systems in North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia are being shut down today because large numbers of their female staffers are striking. In Prince Georges County alone - a suburb of Washington - around 700 teachers requested the day off. It makes sense why schools in particular are feeling the hit.A Time study found that 84% of preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers were in the U.S. are women.Education is not the only industry where women overwhelmingly dominate. Health professions are a stronghold for women, with 91% of all registered nurses and 96.3% of all dental assistants, according to U.S. census data. And nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers in America are women.The gender pay eu-agrarpolitik could close by 2044 for some women, but right now its alive and wellWhite women earnabout 79 centscompared to every dollar earned by men, while black women make 66 cents and Latinasearn only59 cents. But for some women, theres hope on the horizon.For yo ung women in developed markets, Accenture said in a report on Tuesday that they could achieve pay equity by 2044. For this to happen, young women would need to be savvy about their careers and focus on digital fluency and tech immersion, the report outlined. Until then, women will keep marching and protesting and negotiating for that better future.

3D Printing Houses

3D Printing Houses 3D Printing Houses 3D Printing HousesPolygonal doodads in plastic, obscure medical devices, one-off parts, jokey chess pieces, and unregulated handguns these are the things that pop into the mind at the mention of 3D printing. But long before any MakerBot had come into existence, Dr. Berok Khoshnevis, a professor of multiple engineering disciplines at the University of Southern California and director of theCenter for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies, dreamt up a way to print things of larger size and, arguably, importance. His company, Contour Crafting has, or will have soon enough, the capability to quickly print out walls, houses, buildings, and, conceivably, entire neighborhoods. The technology is not unlike the additive machines on the job today for smaller tasks. But instead of plastic, it uses a special cement we formulate, says Khoshnevis. A trowel shapes that special cement as it emerges from the printers nozzle. That and a hardener added to the ce ment allow each layer of a wall to be applied without the usual drying delays. Khoshnevis says that with his process, a 2,500-square-foot custom-konzepted home could be printed in a matter of 20 hours. That includes the walls, floors, and roof as well as conduits for electricity and plumbing. The speed and simplicity of production make the technology ideal for the erection of houses for the needy at disaster sites, and slums around the world.A 3D-printer nozzle printing a corrugated cement wall. Image Contour Crafting. The machine also means that those houses could be produced at an extremely low cost. Quick production lowers the need for financing labor costs are next to nothing and few materials will be wasted. And the emissions and energy usage of printing a house would be a tiny fraction of that used to build houses today. But the advantages of a 3D printed home extend far beyond the humanitarian and the sustainable. The brick, the cinderblock, the glass pane, the two-by-four an d even the log, lend themselves to the right angle. The architect on a budget tends to design in terms of boxes. Deviations from 90 degrees tend toward angles more oblique or acute, but rarely curved. But with Khoshneviss system, the curved wall is as simple and inexpensive to produce as any other. Architects are crazy about those exotic designs, but they are expensive to do, says Khoshnevis. To the printer, the task is not harder or easier. Using CAD/CAM, the architect can make structures that are as swervy, complicated, and structurally sound as any structure in history. In fact, curved walls are much stronger than straighta major benefit for earthquake-prone locales. But even without a curve the printed walls are a good three times as strong as the walls of houses today.Potential applications of contour crafting technology include constructing lunar structures. Image Contour Crafting Locales far from local will benefit as well. Khoshnevis has been working NASA to come up with a p rinter for building structures on the moon or Mars. Instead of taking material from here to there, take our machines and use in situ material, he says. In the water-free environments found on the moon and Mars that means melting extraterrestrial soils to make a kind of lava that would be extruded through the machines nozzles. Khoshnevis has made a machine that can print a wall layer by layer. With a nicht unter amount of research and development, the process can include the addition of rebar and the automatic installation of plumbing and electrical and communications wiring. Long before its used to build structures on orbs other than Earth, its likely to be put use not only with terrestrial buildings, but also with bridges, towers, and other civil engineering needs. Michael Abrams is an independent writer. For Further DiscussionArchitects are crazy about those exotic designs, but they are expensive to do. To the printer, the task is not harder or easier.Dr. Berok Khoshnevis, direct or, Contour Crafting