New study documents gender disparity in computational research publications
Women are consistently underrepresented in scientific research positions—a disparity that is particularly egregious in computational fields.
Women are consistently underrepresented in scientific research positions—a disparity that is particularly egregious in computational fields.
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Oct 16, 2017
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The racial biases of Whites in a community predict how many African-Americans are killed by police in a given area, according to results of a paper published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
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Jul 27, 2017
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As the number of white residents in a neighborhood declines, noise rises. But noise pollution is inescapable in segregated cities, where noise pollution is worse for everyone, according to the first breakdown of noise exposure ...
Environment
Jul 25, 2017
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The first systematic analysis of police body camera footage shows that officers consistently use less respectful language with black community members than with white community members, according to new Stanford research.
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Jun 5, 2017
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Despite some progress, significant racial inequities have stagnated, and in some cases grown worse, in Chicago since the civil rights movement, according to a new report by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers.
Social Sciences
May 15, 2017
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Once-formidable disparities between black and white families living in subsidized housing have largely vanished, and black and white children who grew up in such housing fared similarly in school, jobs and earnings, a new ...
Social Sciences
May 8, 2017
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America's society and education system have a tendency to claim they are "color blind" or that they don't see race. Doing so tells young people their race and identity don't matter, encourages ignorance and ultimately leads ...
Social Sciences
Jan 24, 2017
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African-Americans are more likely than whites to experience the loss of a parent during childhood and more likely to be exposed to multiple family member deaths by mid-life, according to a study by the Population Research ...
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2017
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The racial health gap in the United States is well-documented. The gap starts with the infant mortality rate (11.1 blacks vs. 5.1 whites per 1,000) and extends to almost any health domain. Compared to whites, blacks live ...
Social Sciences
Jan 6, 2017
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Efforts to relieve the human and financial toll of prison overcrowding often rely on predictive tools that estimate how likely an inmate is to reoffend based on such risk factors as criminal history, education or employment ...
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2016
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