Following a new report that found disconcerting levels
of gender bias among teen boys, teen girls, and even the mothers of teen boys and girls, HGSE's Making Caring Common project has now released a toolkit for educators [PDF] who want to spur discussion about gender stereotypes and discrimination in their school communities.
«I remember talking about this with other women my age when I was much younger,» says Linda Bartoshuk, a full professor of psychology at the University of Florida in Gainesville who has seen her share
of gender bias among scientists.
Not exact matches
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.
Many U.S. universities have no women at all
among their physics faculty, and when people talk about
gender equity in physics, this fact is often cited as evidence
of a hiring
bias.
And researchers, reacting to the apparent prevalence
of autism
among males, may have unknowingly created a
gender bias in the science itself — by conducting their research predominantly on autistic boys and men, and then forming conclusions about the condition that have been applied to girls and women as well.
Among them were public funding, decentralization, the separation
of church and state, an open and forgiving structure, and a lack
of gender bias.
At a time when women in the hotel sector comprise just 5 %
of CEOs and 9 %
of presidents, Marriott and Hilton are
among the hotel companies aggressively working to reverse
gender bias through mentoring and networking.