| Workers may not have the power to eliminate hostile workplaces, but in the woke era, they are naming and shaming them. Consider the SoftBank Vision Fund, known for throwing billions of dollars at startups. Behind the scenes, workers alleged they've seen "harassment, compliance issues and an abnormally high tolerance for risk—all wrapped in a casing of general weirdness." How weird? There's the executive accused of telling a Mormon employee to "go back to Utah to get more wives." Then there's the boss known for alternative bouts of rage and charm, and a managing partner who allegedly claimed he supports female CEOs—but faulted #MeToo for limiting his ability to maneuver. Not that Wall Street is much better. If there are fewer headlines about wrongdoing in the finance capital, Bloomberg Businessweek reports it may just be evidence of an effective corporate machine, one that uses forced arbitration, captive human resources departments, high-priced lawyers and a culture of fear to silence employees. The only good news for finance workers though is that, at least in those jobs, harassment and retribution aren't televised like they are on "Survivor." —Philip Gray Did you see this? Another Google employee says she was fired for supporting labor rights. Once famous for openness, Google has become known for a crackdown begun under CEO Sundar Pichai. The latest worker said she was suspended, interrogated and terminated, bringing to five the number of employees fired for what they said were legally protected activities. Indians are protesting a widely condemned law that would single out Muslims for discrimination in applying for citizenship. Australia achieved its goal for women to hold 30% of board seats at the nation's largest public companies and a record number of women were elected to Parliament in the U.K. The workplace gender gap is closing, albeit slowly. For employment equality, the world has 99 years to go, says Bloomberg Surveillance. The retail apocalypse is costing a lot of CEOs their jobs, and women are well positioned to fill those spots. Where would Xena sleep? If the warrior princess were in Washington, maybe at this new feminist boutique hotel. We love charts Not all U.S. counties are created equally. Just 31 of them represent almost one-third of the nation's economy. Call it inequality in a bottle The vanilla trade encapsulates a wildly volatile supply chain that begins in some of the most remote territory of Madagascar, one of the poorest nations in the world, and leads to the globe's richest markets. One corner of the island nation supplies 80% or more of the world's vanilla. Small farmers grow it, sleeping in fields to protect the precious beans and finally carrying them to market on foot. Getting it from there to grocery aisles is where the chaos happens. Globalization, it turns out, tastes like vanilla. | 
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