Legally protected characteristics such as race, gender, or sexual orientation cannot be used by companies to discriminate against job applicants. However, regardless of the presence or absence of formal protections, many ...
Economics & Business
Sep 10, 2021
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New research focused on college students training to become K-12 teachers emphasizes the need to recruit and enroll more diverse students in teacher education programs.
Education
Sep 9, 2021
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Decision-making that overrides one's personal views and self-interests, also known as bias suppression, is often touted as an essential institutional objective. Accountability is a common strategy for discouraging stubborn ...
Economics & Business
Sep 8, 2021
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Half of women questioned in a survey said that taking maternity leave had hurt their careers, new research says.
Social Sciences
Sep 1, 2021
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Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole is one of the most distinctive and least studied aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system. A new study analyzed seven years of federal sentencing data to investigate ...
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2021
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A city's street names can provide a glimpse into its cultural value system and a way to quantify cultural indicators, according to a study published June 30, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Melanie Bancilhon from ...
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2021
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Election outcomes are notoriously difficult to predict. In 2016, for example, most polls suggested that Hillary Clinton would win the presidency, but Donald Trump defeated her. Researchers cite multiple explanations for the ...
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2021
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Scientists have leapt over the emerging problem of publication bias within genetic research by performing a meta-analysis of publicly available databases of 'transcriptomes," or the full range of messenger RNA molecules produced ...
Biotechnology
Jun 9, 2021
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A study examining gender bias and family-owned businesses found daughters were rarely encouraged and received little support to pursue entrepreneurship education while sons mostly did.
Economics & Business
Jun 7, 2021
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It won't come as a surprise to anyone that women are underrepresented in leadership roles in many industries. This has led to a proliferation of women-only mentoring programs designed to challenge industry standards for female ...
Social Sciences
May 24, 2021
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