Sentences with phrase «from gender bias»

Apart from gender bias in the workplace, the biggest impediment towards female success in the executive world is women's natural tendency to undervalue their skills.

The first finding isn't «new news», but it's still important: Facebook still appears to suffer from a gender bias, with 56 % of the platform's global account profiles set to «male» (we'll come back to why I'm saying «set to» in a moment).

Joan Williams, a co-director at the Project for Attorney Retention and one of the authors of the reports suggests that the disparity between men and women at the top results from gender bias in evaluation of lawyers.

Not exact matches

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.

«It's difficult to determine whether this is a symptom of unconscious gender bias in the hiring process or results from an ongoing cycle of women being underpaid, setting their salary expectations too low, and ultimately receiving less in subsequent roles,» the report reads.

From little girls on the playground to women in the workplace, Sandberg said there is a gender bias that women «aren't meant to lead.»

Use these tips to remove gender bias from your job ads.

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

While students who graduate from all - women colleges may later be exposed to gender biases, a rigorous undergraduate education unencumbered by common cultural stereotypes fosters lasting confidence.

One finding from the study's survey was that women felt their advancement was hampered by a number of factors, including informal interactions and mentoring with and by their male colleagues, as well as gender biases by entrepreneurs (who are mostly male) in their perception of investors.

So, what's to stop these fine folks from reestablishing racial and gender bias as well, both of which were once regarded as biblically - grounded?

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.

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.

Request from heads of International Andy Awards and Advertising Club of New York follows announcement from Cannes it was cautioning jurors to disregard ads with gender bias

Three commercially released facial - analysis programs from major technology companies demonstrate both skin - type and gender biases, according to a new paper researchers from MIT and Stanford University will present later this month at the Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

Institutionalized gender bias is likely the main reason women are underrepresented in the upper echelons of academic medicine, they write, and explanations involving women's choice can distract observers from unfair institutional practices.

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.

The plateauing or drop in female first authorship since 2009 may, they suggest, arise from «the subtle and unconscious gender bias that persists in the scientific community.»

If the men got more money from the same product, then that could stem from an unconscious gender bias on the part of the buyers.

Aside from research design biases, Fine also notes how social constructions of gender shape the situations people encounter, and their subjective meaning.

► «The top Democrats on three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives — all women — are concerned that «gender bias is inhibiting women and girls» from pursuing careers in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields,» Jeffrey Mervis wrote Tuesday at ScienceInsider.

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.

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.

From research and reports in the blogosphere there appears to be a gender bias with men experiencing more benefit and fewer side effects than women.

When getting to know an exciting new partner and going on your first date, it is helpful to understand dating from the different gender biases.

«The theme of this year's Crystal + Lucy Awards Gala is «Ignited,» referencing the tipping point we're living in and Women in Film's responsibility as a thought leader to keep the flame burning for a sustainable future — freed from the constraints of gender bias.»

The film, from co-directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore, explores the kinds of social inequities — gender, racial and class bias — they saw unfolding during production in the national conversation as police killings of African American men sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

Gender - based discrimination and substantitive and cultural biases continue to limit oprions that girls have in education and contribute to their prmature dropout from school.

The Big Picture Over the last year, Making Caring Common (MCC) set out to investigate gender bias in young people, conducting a large study of roughly 19,800 middle and high school students from a diverse...

As I read the sobering new report on gender bias in teens from HGSE's Making Caring Common (MCC), I realized anew that ways of thinking form early.

Student evaluations frequently reflect popularity or grading standards, rather than genuine instructional quality, and exhibit gender, racial, and ethnic biases, [v] while peer reviews are subject to «halo effects» resulting from evaluators» knowledge of a faculty member's research record.

This is the focus of a new report [published in the Australian Journal of Education] from researchers at the University of New England, which looks at different types of potential bias in grading including gender, race and physical attractiveness.

Teen Girls Face Leadership Bias CBS News, 8/28/15 «A new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Education uncovered this discouraging gender bias.

The biggest takeaways from the report are that girls, boys, and parents alike are guilty of unconscious gender biases, that these assumptions affect girls early on in life, and that they are preventable early on as well.

Setting out to determine whether there was racial or gender bias in online learning environments, researchers drew from several hundred actual student comments in massive open online courses and came up with a list of 32 generic comments that they could post in discussion forums.

With Gorky, West further came up with a masculine nom de brass «Michael West» in the late 1930s to shift the audience's attention to the merit of her work, free from the bias of her gender.

Unlike other gender - biased artistic traditions, women artists were leaders in the video medium from its origins in the 1960s and 1970s.

Eight years of preparation went into crafting «WACK,» the first comprehensive effort to correct modern art history's shameful gender bias, focusing on work that emerged from the feminist art movement of 1965 through the 1980s and organized by theme.

While Walker draws inspiration from sources like the antebellum South, testimonial slave narratives, historical novels, and minstrel shows, she generally conflates fact and fiction to uncover the living roots of racial and gender bias.

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

Now, in a separate action, Sullivan & Cromwell has sued Charney for leaking client confidences and a PowerPoint presentation about low associate morale (though, as I suggested in this earlier post, proof of low associate morale could help exonerate S&C from claims of gender bias by showing that S&C was an equal - opportunity mistreater).

If the «maternal wall,» or the mommy track, as we know it, is a form of gender bias, then women lawyers are, in fact, being precluded from higher earning potential because of their family obligations.

Results from Lucas County, Ohio, which adopted the tool in January 2015, found that outcomes did not show a race or gender bias.

She succeeded an executive director who also alleged gender bias after being terminated from the post.

Comprehensive scientific research from Yale, Princeton and the University of California has demonstrated that unconscious gender bias operates against female students and academics.

Our diversity initiatives are designed to: 1) foster mutual professional and personal respect; 2) create an environment in which individual contributions are valued and where biases based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or any other category do not exist; and 3) attract the best and brightest legal talent from all backgrounds.

These studies show that institutional practices and ingrained gender bias prevent most women from reaching the top.

My expectation was that the data would support a commonly held view that qualified women lawyers are being overlooked in the judicial appointment process and that the gender disparities we see in appointments is the result of discrimination or bias in that process (see, for example this op ed piece from June 2014.)

These aim to help hirers avoid unconscious bias by removing certain information such as name and gender from CVs.