BBC November 1, 2017 Participants in Peru’s Miss Universe Pageant broke with tradition and recited statistics detailing violence against women rather than give their body measurements. The organisers also joined in showing news material of prominent cases of gender-based attacks. The 23 aspiring beauty queens were hoping to get through to November’s Miss Universe Competition in Las Vegas. Last year …
Above the Law April 6, 2017 By Kathryn Rubino It’s a tale as old as time — no, not the tale of Stockholm Syndrome sweeping the box office — the reality every woman in the workplace knows: men interrupt women. And now there’s a study by Northwestern School of Law Professor Tonja Jacobi and law school student Dylan Schweers that …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
