Would You Tip for an Early Paycheck? | Learning From South Africa

www.ozy.com [OZY.COM]( [VIEW ONLINE]( 10 MUST READS TODAY [Daily Dose]( Wednesday May 08, 2019 1 [Fast Forward]( [Fast Forward]( [The Rise of Digital Tipping — From Music to Your Own Paycheck]( This Chinese system has generated millions in revenue for streaming platforms, and now the U.S. is at the tipping point. Chinese pop singer Hua Chenyu once made $17,000 in five hours, and he wasn’t even famous yet. In 2014, Hua posted a single on Chinese microblogging site Weibo and charged 2 yuan (30 cents) per download. He also allowed tips. The 23,000 payments made within those five hours included an average tip of 2.5 yuan each. In China, Hua wasn’t breaking fresh ground with his financial model. Tipping video producers, podcasters and musicians online for their work has been the norm since 2013, when online payments really took off there. Tencent Music’s three streaming apps — QQ Music, KuGou and Kuwo — and its karaoke app WeSing, allow fans to tip artists any amount through the apps. Writers can be tipped for their stories through WeChat and podcasters for their episodes on Ximalaya, China’s biggest spoken-word audio platform. Now, digital tipping is beginning to catch on in the U.S., with Americans who are used to tipping bartenders, baristas and hairstylists loosening their purse strings for other services and creative professionals. [READ MORE]( 2 [Rising Stars]( [Rising Stars]( [She's Bringing Mexico City's Domestic Workers Out of the Shadows]( As Mexico City’s new employment secretary, Soledad Aragón is fighting for more than 200,000 home workers. When Soledad Aragón was offered the job of employment secretary for the recently installed Mexico City government, she was seven months pregnant and about to take maternity leave from the International Labor Organization. But the city’s first female mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum, wasn’t put off — au contraire. Her choice of Aragón, she said at the time, made the point that women’s rights and protections were going to be a focus of her administration. Aragón, who has been in the job since early this year, has taken that pledge to heart. As we talk in her downtown office, a nanny sits in the back room with her infant son. This is her first position in public office; she is not a career politician — her efforts to integrate the demands of mothering with her new responsibilities are genuine. They are also a logical extension of her academic interests since entering university, where she earned an undergraduate degree, followed by a master’s and a Ph.D. in employment-related studies. [READ MORE]( 3 [Acumen]( [Acumen]( [Can South Africa Teach Us a Lesson in Fixing Educational Gender Gaps?]( After little improvement in decades, the country now hopes dedicated support networks can encourage female leadership. Dr. Mala Apparaju estimates that she went to more than 100 different job interviews before she was finally appointed principal of a school in a rural district of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. It took 40 interviews just to become the head of a department. Sometimes, she remembers, she would arrive for the interview and face a panel of seven men. “Needless to say,” she says, “I didn’t get those jobs.” Finally, around 2002, she got the gig. Around the same time, Agnes Mazibuko — who’d been rising through the teaching ranks for 24 years — managed to land a job as principal of Ifalethu Primary School in rural Mpumalanga, the first woman in her district to hold the job. She was, she says, the best-qualified candidate, with a stellar track record during her eight-year tenure as deputy principal. Still, she describes it as “a miracle” that she got the job. Mazibuko’s and Apparaju’s stories of perseverance are inspiring, but even today, they are all too rare. 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