Sentences with phrase «address gender bias»

Head of the mining practice Otsile Matlou praised her «excellent technical acumen and the unique insight she has gained due to her unparalleled practice experience» and noted that the hire would help to address the gender bias within the mining sector.

Pratt hosted the first annual Pratt Art and Feminism Edit - A-Thon in the Pratt Library on the Brooklyn campus this spring to address gender bias on Wikipedia, which has become the go - to information resource for millions...

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Identifying ways to address inequalities like those presented at the briefing, including evidence of a persistent gender - based wage gap and bias in NIH R01 grant proposal evaluation, is crucial for supporting female academics» career aspirations.

In 1996, I started to organise a women's forum to address gender - bias issues faced by women in the company.

Despite a considerable volume of research on the topic of facial recognition, most studies to date specifically address facial recognition from the perspective of various known biases for race, age, and gender.

AAAS, too, has repeatedly addressed this issue, including at symposia on the exploration of the early underpinnings of gender bias in the scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical fields for elementary age girls, and on new ways to expand the numbers of underrepresented groups in those fields — both held at its 2016 Annual Meeting in February.

The panel discussion, comprised of local science and healthcare industry leaders, addressed identifying gender bias in today's workplace and strategies of how to change it in the future.

Key measures include strengthening the delivery of STEM education, addressing unconscious bias and gender stereotyping, and ensuring the development of skills that meet employers» needs.

Student Teachers Get «Real World» Practice Via Virtual Reality (Education Week) Chris Dede weighs in on how we can recognize biases through virtual reality simulations where you can easily change students» race and genders, and how training programs can help to address how teachers practice responding to challenging behaviors and stereotyping.

Specifically, PSEL defines effectiveness in this area as ensuring that students have equitable access to effective teachers and supports, developing policies that fairly address student misconduct, and confronting biases and «low expectations associated with race, class, culture and language, gender and sexual orientation, and disability or special status,» among other tenets.

REALITY: Despite state laws and district policies that prohibit discrimination and address bullying based on sexual orientation and gender identity, many LGBTQ and gender non-conforming youth are experiencing verbal and physical discrimination and harassment, are not able to identify adult supporters, and are not learning accurate information about gender, sex, and sexual orientation; and teacher - preparation programs in Illinois are not adequately preparing teachers to address such bias based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Funded by an ambitious IndieGoGo campaign that exceeded its original $ 50,000 goal, App Camp for Girls is a way to break down some of the gender bias in the industry while also addressing the common perception that software technology is a «boy hobby.»

could change this unfair bias by bringing together well - respected names like Michelle Grabner and Hank Willis Thomas to explore America's rabid love for sports, specifically addressing, according to the press release, issues like «identity, power, heroism, nostalgia, popular culture and gender.»

Then follows «mental health of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero - population - growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment of the Climate Wars.

Cultural, gender, geographic, and cognitive biases were also addressed by various panellists in the fascinating discussion.

The panellists shared their views and recommended solutions to address unconscious bias, from the gender and from the broader scope of diversity.

In our first year compulsory curriculum, faculty address in a variety of ways issues related to power structures and gender biases and assumptions.

While I applaud firms for addressing a lot of the organizational issues (GLASS CEILING) impacting gender diversity (implicit bias training, flexible work arrangements, on and off ramps, etc.) I don't see firms doing enough to support women with what we refer to as STICKY FLOOR issues: the stuff that holds us back or causes us to Lean Out because we can't see a place for ourselves in the firm.

And that's exactly what we're trying to address here... The tech industry is seeing the results of the education system having a gender bias.

Similarly to appearance, name, age, gender or address could also trigger a subconscious bias from the recruiter.

Students explore how race, ethnicity, gender etc. play out in real life and challenges them to acknowledge and address their biases.