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But again, her tough upbringing gave her the skill to deflect decades of gender bias in the industry.

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.

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.

One of the more intriguing results of that analysis, however, was the identification of gender biases in the texts on which the machine translations systems were trained.

«But a complete closing of the gap was unexpected, especially given recent evidence of gender bias in science mentoring,» Wai said.

The author of a new book, Doing Harm, argues that a pattern of gender bias in medicine means women's pain may be going undiagnosed.

The summit's agenda was to «drill into the systemic causes of gender bias in the industry and craft solutions,» a spokesperson said in a statement.

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.»

The resulting rumors of gender bias in Wellington's case led the MLGBA to write its letter demanding a «full written accounting.»

Studies of gender bias in the courts document how courts too often disbelieve credible evidence of domestic violence and discount its seriousness.

Not exact matches

The elimination of gender bias is difficult, otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation in 2018.

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.

«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.

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).

It's hard to believe that a gender bias still exists in the workplace, more than 50 years after the passage of the Equal Pay Act.

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.»

«Parenting daughters reduces the bias that one has towards women, which leads to more female hires,» the researchers wrote, noting that firms with a greater number of daughters over the age of 12 also lead to even greater gender diversity in firms.

While women typically face gender - discrimination or bias in traditional sources of funding like venture capital or banking, crowdfunding «enables and empowers far more female decision - makers — as project backers and «micro-VCs» — than within traditional finance,» the report argues.

Getting rid of negotations is an extension of Pao's ongoing campaign against gender bias in Silicon Valley.

But it seems like a step in the right direction, even if only to increase the visibility of workplace gender bias.

As Bloomberg reported earlier this summer, a «sea of dudes» climate among AI developers has some concerned about gender bias cropping up in AI programs even before those programs start interacting with users.

The woman behind a high - profile gender bias lawsuit against a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm testified Monday that a male colleague was «relentless» in his pursuit of her and cut her out of email chains and meetings when she broke off their affair.

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.

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In short, social impact framing reduces the discriminatory effects of gender bias.

Examine if gender and / or geographical biases are part of venture capital decision - making process, and do more to seek out early - stage, women - led businesses, including those in states across the country

Theresia Gouw, managing partner at Aspect Ventures, and Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, founder of Joyus, discuss gender bias in the VC industry with Bloomberg's Emily Chang...

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.

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.

As a result of the gender bias prevalent in the media, women are likewise frequently ignored or presented as stereotypes.

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.

«Choice sets, gender, and candidate choice in Brazil (gated)» contends that, even though women are under represented in elections throughout Latin America — and Latin America has a reputation as being the home of «machismo» there is a universal bias in favor of female candidates in Brazil.

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.

However the Gender Balance variant of the system could achieve a better balance of male and female MPs without electoral bias, but with a built in self correcting mechanism.

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.

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Democratic lawmakers yesterday called on the Republican - controlled House to follow the Senate in passing a hate - crime bill that targets gay and gender bias on the eve of the 31st Annual...

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.

Most of us think we don't have any gender and race biases, but there is no shortage of unconscious bias in the classroom, and those people, too, thought they were beyond such things.

The tone of the letter was not affected by the writer's gender, reaffirming that both male and female evaluators have gender biases that disadvantage women when they are pursuing traditionally male - dominated roles, says Molly Carnes, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, who was not involved in the study.

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.

Be aware of gender and race biases — as well as other biases — in the classroom.

«The fact that women are capable of contributing to the nation's scientific and engineering enterprise but are impeded in doing so because of gender and racial / ethnic bias and outmoded «rules» governing academic success is deeply troubling and embarrassing,» wrote the authors of a 2007 report on women in academic science and engineering issued by the National Academies [7].

«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.»

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.