Sentences with phrase «for gender bias»

For example, this year, Niki Black criticized the Blawg 100 for gender bias, and last year, Scott Greenfield called out one legal technology blog for buying votes.

Given that Google has already come under investigation for gender bias in the workplace, it needed to take this very seriously, so I believe the correct outcome has been reached.

Government Art Collection in the UK criticised for gender bias The shadow arts minister, Kevin Brennan, has criticised the UK government's art collection of «institutional bias» against female artists, reports the Guardian.

«I am asking that you stand with me and boycott Netflix for gender bias and color bias.»

Yes, there are plenty of opportunities for gender bias elsewhere, but the expectation of equal length leaves could only help.

Not exact matches

The endorsement came despite lingering questions about safety and effectiveness, but also followed a high - stakes pressure campaign in which the manufacturer accused the Food and Drug Administration of gender bias, since several pills were already approved for men with sexual problems.

Leaders have to be intentional about eliminating bias by ensuring that their hiring and promotion practices have clear policy and guidelines against it, and that there are checks and balances in place where salaries between genders are regularly reviewed for parity.

It's time for any organization with more than a perfunctory interest in gender parity to acknowledge the biases — often unconscious — that might be keeping qualified women from positions that ultimately go to men.

Like pollsters and data scientists have been doing for decades, we normalize our data against U.S. census data, ensuring that our panel of millions accurately matches the U.S. population to remove any age or gender bias (though urban geographies are slightly over-represented in our panel).

For some women engineers, data confirmed their suspicions of gender bias at the social networking company.

When the VCs learned about the findings, the researchers write in the HBR article, «the VCs reacted with a mixture of emotions: despair for being involved in creating bias, denial of being part of it, becoming upset with the facts, and feeling relief about the fact that gender bias was finally becoming transparent.»

When talking with business - minded millennial women who fear gender bias, I often share two recommendations: Look for a mentor who will not only support your career ambitions but who will also help you reach your goals.

Pao says she sees salary negotiations as inherently perpetuating that gender bias, given that women are often too intimidated to ask for more.

Yesterday, Kristen asked what you thought about the New York Times story on the backlash against gender equality in Silicon Valley — and specifically for your thoughts on how to tackle the discussion of these kinds of false and biased beliefs without lending them credibility.

Marlene Williamson, CEO of Watermark, a Silicon Valley organization dedicated to women in leadership, said not only will Kalanick's resignation help Uber get back on track — his departure will have ramifications for other Bay Area tech companies struggling with their own issues of gender bias and sexual harassment.

«ACT for America has never, and will never, tolerate any bias, discrimination, or violence against anyone, based on their religion, gender, race, or political persuasion,» Act for America told Newsweek in a statement.

Didn't you just rage at me in another post about being gender biased for using the same word.

While the soldiers of the radicals» class conflict changed from proletarians to people of color and victims of gender bias, the structure of the radical paradigm was maintained: the division of society into the «people» and those identified as the «enemies of the people,» into «us» and «them» — the prescription for cultural and political war.

Topics are focused on the unique issues and opportunities facing women working in the alcohol beverage industry, including why gender diversity is good for business, mentoring to empower the next generation of leaders, understanding unconscious bias, thriving in the male - dominated alcohol beverage industry, and others.

I am also curious how you and your spouse accommodate for the implicit bias each of us carries around gender (as we are products of our culture).

NYC teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.

Pew also tested for hidden gender bias, often called the Bradley Effect or Wilder Effect.

The IWD platform calls for a «pledge of parity campaign that challenges conscious and unconscious biases; gender - balanced leadership; value women and men's contributions equally; and create inclusive flexible cultures» starting from awareness raising to concrete actions.

He said: «It is an open fact that the successive democratically elected governments in the State since 1999 have been totally committed to democratic principles, rule of law, strengthening of democratic institutions as well as implementation of programmes and policies that would enhance the wellbeing of all Lagosians, without bias for tribe, religion, political belief or gender.

Those who disagree with what she has fought for — namely equal marriage, the campaign against FGM and work to reduce gender and racial bias — are merely taking an easy shot at a political opponent.

Teachers union president Michael Mulgrew took shots at the de Blasio administration on Monday for the second time in two weeks — this time charging city leaders with gender bias over their handling of paid parental leave.

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.

«Study finds gender and skin - type bias in commercial artificial - intelligence systems: Examination of facial - analysis software shows error rate of 0.8 percent for light - skinned men, 34.7 percent for dark - skinned women.»

For example, they had to monitor such issues as racial, gender, socioeconomic, and ethnic biases in the text and photographs, plus lab safety concerns.

Please pardon the gender bias; the Babylonians were not known for their sensitivity to gender equality:

Research has revealed that gender biases limit the opportunities for women within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

A new study out today in Psychology of Women Quarterly examined a well - known space for candid sharing of thoughts — the comments sections of online articles — and found that men are much less likely to agree with scientific evidence of gender bias in STEM than women.

In her essay for this feature, Tyler turns the spotlight on gender biases and her dawning realization that, as a woman, she may one day be obliged to choose between career and family.

Gender bias is something that she never experienced herself, other than the occasional assumption when she came back from the United States that it was to work for her husband rather than heading her own lab.

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.

However, they note that the age at which the female own - gender bias emerges and possibly diminishes has not yet been thoroughly investigated, although one study reported that, for older women, no own - gender bias was observed for either own - or other - age faces.

Absences such as these cost the state an estimated $ 276 million annually, and many of the cases involve bias against students for their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability or sexual orientation.

The study found that female babies in West Africa were more likely to die, perhaps due partly to a gender bias and preference for sons.

«This research by no means blames women for gender inequality but rather uncovers a novel environmental factor that might contribute to inequality, beyond the well - documented effects of gender biases and discrimination,» said Stephen Garcia, U-M associate professor of organizational studies and psychology.

When you look at criteria used in science to hire people — for example, recommendation letters, number of citations, and teaching evaluations — all these metrics have been empirically found to be biased by gender, she says.

Given the weak evidence for the IOC's policy and its potential for fostering gender hysteria, the problem here isn't one of unfair advantage but of bias and discrimination.

It is important for organizations wishing to hire more women in leadership roles to evaluate the gender bias in their organization, with a first step being an audit of the compensation practices for women and men.

The underlying reasons for these gender and race differences are unknown, though researchers suggest that it may relate to access issues, denial of care or provider bias.

► Critics worry that this message may make girls and young women less prepared for bias they are bound to encounter and may undercut support for continuing efforts by institutions to attain gender balance in math - based sciences.

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.

Gender bias in hiring is not blatant, the authors found, but gender - associated differences in productivity, postdoctoral experience, and institutional prestige of degree - granting institutions — which are likely due to bias against women during the training process — largely account for the observed gender imbalance in computer science faculty hiring netGender bias in hiring is not blatant, the authors found, but gender - associated differences in productivity, postdoctoral experience, and institutional prestige of degree - granting institutions — which are likely due to bias against women during the training process — largely account for the observed gender imbalance in computer science faculty hiring netgender - associated differences in productivity, postdoctoral experience, and institutional prestige of degree - granting institutions — which are likely due to bias against women during the training process — largely account for the observed gender imbalance in computer science faculty hiring netgender imbalance in computer science faculty hiring networks.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

Walden believes much of the hardship for women pursuing careers in science comes down to the small things, including the gender stereotypes and the unconscious biases that make the white male «look more like a scientist» than the female, regardless of experience or performance.

After accounting for potential bias, the researchers concluded that the gender gap for drinking fell by 3.2 percent with each successive five - year generation, but was steepest among those born from 1966 onward.

After the researchers adjusted for age, gender, race, and BMI, they found that women who scored in the top half for weight - bias internalization were three times more likely to have metabolic syndrome that those in the bottom half.