Meet Urvashi Sahini who fought patriarchy by imparting gender-sensitive education
YOURSTORY.COM October 30, 2017 By Sneh Singh Study Hall Education Foundation, started by Urvashi, educates over 6,000 students and trains over 8,000 teachers directly. It works with over 1,50,000 students, teachers, young women. In India, gender discrimination begins at home. In large parts of the country, the female child is still seens as a burden, and is unsafe both at …
Computer Science: Reprogramming Bias
Princeton Alumni Weekly June 7, 2017 By Josephine Wolff As imperfect creators, can humans keep prejudice out of artificial intelligence? One goal of artificial intelligence (AI) is to make computers better able to imitate human reasoning and tasks — but there are downsides to teaching machines to mimic humans too closely, according to a paper published in Science in April …
Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were
The New York Times July 21, 2017 Susan Chira It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers. The impact of gender is hard to pin down decisively. But after years of biting their tongues, believing their ranks would swell if they simply worked hard, many senior women in business are concluding that the barriers are …
WOMEN AREN’T NAGS—WE’RE JUST FED UP
Bazaar Magazine September 27, 2017 By Gemma Hartley Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don’t understand. For Mother’s Day I asked for one thing: a house cleaning service. Bathrooms and floors specifically, windows if the extra expense was reasonable. The gift, for me, was not so much in the cleaning itself but the fact that for once I …
From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories
Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive. The New Yorker October 23, 2017 By Ronan Farrow This story was first published on newyorker.com on October 10, 2017, at 10:47 A.M. The version below appears in the October 23, 2017, issue. 1. Since the establishment of the first studios, a century ago, there have …
Does ‘radical economic transformation’ include closing the gender pay gap?
Mail & Guardian October 10, 2017 By Mondli Zondo Last week Friday, the Norwegian Football Association announced that their men’s national team will be taking a wage cut in order for their female counterparts to earn the same. This will come into effect in 2018 and has been widely lauded as a step towards true equality. Currently, the women’s team …
Closing gender gap could boost economy
The San Diego Union-Tribune May 21, 2016 By Kate Morrissey If San Diego were to shrink the gender gap in its workforce even moderately, the metro area could increase its gross domestic product by about $23 billion by 2025, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute. That’s about a 9 percent boost to the current estimated growth, …
Child abuse and neglect linked to gender inequality
Phys.org July 27, 2017 Children growing up in societies that experience high levels of gender inequality—irrespective of whether these are developed or developing countries—are more likely to be maltreated. This is according to a cross-national analysis of data from 57 countries worldwide, conducted by Joanne Klevens and Katie Ports of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US. …
Sheryl Sandberg Just Nailed A Subtle Way Men Hold Women’s Careers Back
FAIRYGODBOSS By Alex Wilson Every time Sheryl Sandberg speaks at an event, she makes us want to stand up and cheer. She consistently raises awareness for women in the workplace and challenges the world to do better. In a recent interview with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Sandberg pinpoints a subtle way women are held back at work: by not being …