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 …
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 …
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 …
Why Do Women Bully Each Other at Work?
Research suggests that conditions in the workplace might be to blame. The Atlantic September 2017 Issue, updated on August 3, 2017 Olga Khazan The bitches, as Shannon saw it, came in three varieties. She categorized them on her personal blog, in a post titled “Beware the Female BigLaw Partner.” First was the “aggressive bitch”—a certain kind of high-ranking woman at …