Grandparents are thrust into the role for many reasons.

In some cases, parents have died, become incapacitated by illness or injury, overdosed on opioids, or been locked in prison for committing a crime.

BEIJING, Nov 2 (Reuters) - TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will step down as its parent ByteDance's chief financial officer (CFO) to focus on running the short video platform full time, according to an internal memo the company shared with Reuters.

'It's often when something hits the country, like the opioid epidemic, or the Covid pandemic, and people have to turn to relatives,' said Donna Butts, executive director of Generations United, an advocacy and support group.

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This was up from 44.9% the prior year. HSBC - already one of the most unequal banks in Britain in terms of gender pay - reported a wider mean average gap for the year, disclosing women were paid 45.2% less than men.

World Cup holders France have a long list of injuries that coach Didier Deschamps must take into consideration over the next few days although the preliminary list is long enough to include players in a race against time to be fit for Qatar.

Asked if the 2024-25 season was the earliest the failed project could start up again, Reichart told the PA news agency: 'That might be the first reasonable and realistic call but there are so many variables that I can't actually foresee.

ByteDance's Chinese products, including Douyin, news aggregator Toutiao, video-streaming platform Xigua, will be folded into the Douyin unit, which will take over all "information and service" operations in the Chinese market.

Liang also said that Dali, which has undergone layoffs and product closures after China issued rules barring curriculum-based tutoring for profit website would provide services for education stakeholders such as artificial intelligence-powered learning, education for adults and smart hardware.

World football´s governing body will not publish the preliminary lists but some countries might choose to do so, signaling their intentions and potentially putting to bed some of the early debate about team selection.

The launch of the European Super League in 2021 quickly collapsed after Premier League clubs Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham pulled out in the face of criticism from their own supporters in addition to other key figures across the sport.

Life had other plans.

Her daughter, Michelle, was murdered in a domestic-violence attack, leaving behind six-month-old Justin and two-year-old Julien. The father went to prison, nobody else could look after them.

FIFA said in June the decision to expand squads was made "given the need to retain additional flexibility due to the unique timing" of this year's competition, which will interrupt the European club season.

Further tragedies befell the family, and Gentry took on responsibility for more children. She moved from Detroit to Washington, DC, and low nurtures her great-granddaughter Jada, 12, and 17-year-old Tay Sean. 

LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - HSBC, Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley and Standard Chartered reported a widening in the gap between what they paid women and men in 2022, according to data reviewed by Reuters.

ByteDance will also be reorganised into six units - TikTok and its Chinese version Douyin, work collaboration unit Lark, business services unit BytePlus, gaming unit Nuverse, and education tech unit Dali Education, Liang said in the memo.

"Organisations think and say they're doing the right thing to advance gender equality in the workplace - but when it comes to taking action ... they are failing to deliver," said Ann Francke, CEO of the Chartered Management Institute.

Where pay gaps were further broken down by ethnicity, they showed the largest pay disparities were between Black and white employees.

The widest gap was Deutsche Bank's at 38.4%, though this narrowed slightly on the prior year.

'Of course the situation of the English clubs and the Premier League is a strong example of how attractive a club-run competition could actually look like and what difference it makes if you have the best playing each other week after week in a way.

Experts say that while the gender pay gap data is a blunt tool for measuring disparities - as it does not reflect gaps at the same level of seniority, for example - it can capture broad inequities and affect change.