Workplace Buzz: Today's Headlines

What Once Was
If you like the cable channel AMC’s clever series Mad Men, about Madison Avenue in 1960, you will love a current exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It features the work of Al Parker, a leading illustrator for Ladies’ Home Journal, Women’s Home Companion, and other women’s magazines of the period. In Parker’s oeuvre, one finds pony-tailed secretaries, dressed in their perky shirt-dresses, just the type that might work for the ad agency featured in Mad Men, as well as a look-alike of the beautiful suburban wife of the series’ protagonist. National Review

City Women and Their Paycheck
If you can make it here, you'll make it anywhere, as the old tune goes. For young women in New York City, a new refrain could be emerging: If you can make it anywhere, it's here. That's one possible interpretation of a new study that found that while men continue to out-earn women in the workforce both locally and nationwide, New York City women in their 20s are for the first time earning more than their male counterparts. Staten Island Advance

Looking at Labor Day
Vacations, 40-hour work weeks and a safe workplace environment are par for the course today. Employees get to take their lunches and go home at 5 p.m. What now are common rights in the workplace once were unheard of luxuries. People fought, children starved and working men and women died for what we now take for granted. To celebrate those people and their sacrifices, the country gets a whole day to party Labor Day. AlamoGordo Daily News