emerita

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While the Chamber of Commerce and other business groups fiercely opposed the bill, its supporters felt raising pay stimulated economic growth and eliminated unfair competition, ultimately benefiting men as well as women, says Rutgers University history and labor-studies professor emerita Dorothy Sue Cobble, author of “For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Plenty of time and circumstance” to allow “these animals to perfect staggering biological feats unlike any we see on land,” writes Ms. Harvell, a professor emerita at Cornell University and a science envoy for the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal

Summers courted him to help fund an online poetry project being developed by his wife, now an emerita Harvard literature professor.

From The Wall Street Journal

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who worked closely with Newsom to secure funding for the Prop 50 campaign in California, said she expects some Republicans may actually be relieved.

From Salon

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi announced she will not seek re-election at the end of her current term in 2027, ending a nearly 40-year career in Congress — and welcoming a potentially robust retirement package, too.

From MarketWatch