Weekly News Update – Corporette.com

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BBC News visited the “Shein village” in Guangzhou and found that “the beating heart of this empire is a workforce sitting behind sewing machines for around 75 hours a week in contravention of Chinese labor laws.”
Axios listed the companies that have abandoned or rolled back their DEI commitments or programs (*sigh*), including Amazon, Ford, Lowe’s, and Toyota. Companies that have publicly defended their policies include Apple, Costco, and a few airlines.
ESPN noted that women’s basketball teams will finally be paid for NCAA tournament games each March, just like the men have for years.
In The Wall Street Journal [gift link], the author of Malibu Burning: The Real Story Behind L.A.’s Most Devastating Wildfire reflected on the Los Angeles wildfires and explained how to plan for future disasters.
NPR shared that an international committee of scientists has proposed that to measure obesity, BMI be augmented by person’s waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, or waist-to-height ratio and/or DEXA scan.
The Washington Post [gift link] reported that in the wake of states’ restrictive abortion laws, interest in tubal ligations and vasectomies has skyrocketed.
The New York Times [gift link] reported that more Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently.
The Cut looked at startups trying to address the loneliness epidemic, including one founded by Thinx co-founder Radha Agrawal.
Your Laugh of the Week comes from Points in Case, with “Book Club Analyzes Character Arc of Member Who Missed the Meeting.”