People often argue that most Western societies have achieved gender equality – women have all the same legal rights as men, and workplace discrimination based on gender is illegal. Despite this, feminists continue to argue ...
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2018
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Coastal marine organisms are hit hard by pollution and global climate change stress. Perhaps a result of publication bias, studies often focus on species that are negatively impacted. However, to better understand how the ...
Ecology
Mar 6, 2018
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Artificial intelligence could emulate human bias, including sexism, if there is no oversight on data used to create it, experts at the world's largest mobile phone fair in Barcelona warned Thursday.
Robotics
Mar 1, 2018
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College-bound women are not less likely to enter specific fields because more math or science is required, but rather because of the gender discrimination they are likely to encounter in those fields, finds a new nationally ...
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2018
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As much as we'd like to think we've refined the hiring process over the years to carefully select the best candidate for the job, bias still creeps in.
Social Sciences
Jan 3, 2018
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At a time when many companies are feeling pressured to report on and improve gender inequality within the workforce, a Stanford sociologist is finding success with a new method for reducing the kind of bias that leads to ...
Social Sciences
Dec 20, 2017
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At first glance, the movie "Frozen" might seem to have two strong female protagonists—Elsa, the elder princess with unruly powers over snow and ice, and her sister, Anna, who spends much of the film on a quest to save their ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 13, 2017
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A number of strategies used by the police to proactively prevent crimes have proved to be successful at crime reduction, at least in the short term, and most strategies do not harm communities' attitudes toward police, finds ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2017
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A discovery that bees have individual flying direction preferences could lead to strategies for steering drone aircraft fleets.
Plants & Animals
Nov 2, 2017
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When most people think of bias, they imagine an intentional thought or action – for example, a conscious belief that women are worse than men at math or a deliberate decision to pull someone over because of his or her race. ...
Social Sciences
Oct 30, 2017
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