Big firms are failing to reduce unconscious bias against disabled people, finds study
Working for a big company or in an HR role does not lower the likelihood of showing unconscious bias against disabled people at work, a new study finds.
Working for a big company or in an HR role does not lower the likelihood of showing unconscious bias against disabled people at work, a new study finds.
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2023
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A researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has explored how the gender gap has evolved in two American academies: the National Academy of Science (NAS) and the Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2023
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In early March, France's first minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced that French companies failing to enforce the country's gender equality criteria would be denied access to public contracts. The news adds yet another line ...
Social Sciences
Mar 9, 2023
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Gender diversity experts at the University of South Australia are urging governments to rethink their approach to gender targets as new research by UniSA scholars shows that they do not lead to expected improvements in gender ...
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2023
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Gender equity continues to be a significant problem in business globally. We all know the story: the gender pay gap is a persistent issue and female-dominated industries tend to be lower paid.
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2023
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A new study from MIT and Harvard University suggests that the brains of the seemingly simple zebrafish are more sophisticated than previously thought. The researchers found that larval zebrafish can use visual information ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 18, 2022
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The Bureau of Statistics has just released a new set of data from the 2021 census. The first set—released in June 2022—covered topics including age, sex, religion, unpaid work and country of birth.
Social Sciences
Oct 17, 2022
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Capturing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) deep underground can help combat climate change, but long-term monitoring of the stored CO2 within a geological storage site is difficult using current physics-based methods.
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2022
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A report that scientists have begun tests on a 300-year-old "mermaid mummy" to identify its origins, has stimulated an interest in the existence of mermaids in Japanese folklore.
Archaeology
Mar 17, 2022
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The narrative of film and television series has represented LGBTQ+ people (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans) in various ways. It has gone from complete invisibility (where there was no representation of these groups, or they ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2022
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