Tag: Kindergarten

By Nelson Belen and Ciara Long, Contributing Reporters RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Though sixteen year-old American expatriate Christian Billman has lived in Recife, Brazil, for six years, in that time he has been able to fulfill all the educational...

By Lucy Jordan, Senior Contributing Reporter BRASÍLIA, BRAZIL – Brazilian working mothers earned, on average, eleven percent less than women without children in 2009, according to new research. The ‘motherhood penalty,’ as sociologists call it, has increased considerably in recent...