Research suggests women account for only 26% of data and AI positions in the workforce; Increasing representation and diversity in AI development is crucial to producing better products of value to more people and avoiding biases; From supporting STEM education…
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How This Woman Is Cleaning Up the Janitorial Industry, 1 Job at a Time By Kevin J.Ryan, Staff Writer INC.
27 August 2021Views: 436Carolina Alvarez spent 13 years working in the male-dominated janitorial industry, where she encountered discomforting sexism and shady business practices, and struggled to get the credit she deserved. Janitorial is a very male-dominated industry. All the crew were men; all…
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This Film Examines the Biases in the Code That Runs Our Lives By Sidney Fussell
7 January 2021Views: 466Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya says women and people of color look at technology from the outside—and have felt the negative impacts.”What I came to learn is that the people who are leading the data, the scientists and mathematicians and journalists and…
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Second lockdown left women feeling worn out – while men complained of boredom By Bobby Duffy and Rosie Campbell
18 December 2020Views: 590Among the quarter of the UK who said they’d found it harder to comply with the rules recently, 27% of men said boredom was a key reason, compared with 19% of women. Read more in conversation Second lockdown left women…
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5 steps to make sure women aren’t left behind during the pandemic By Arianna Huffington:
21 October 2020Views: 505The demands on home life now are simply too great and too complicated to wing it, or approach each day in an ad hoc way. As women know all too well, when that’s the system, which is to say, when…
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Are women at higher risk to online scams? Online harassment statistics By Aimee O’ Driscoll
12 August 2020Views: 555By discussing a range of studies and statistics we will demonstrate the different experiences of online culture based on gender. We’ll also reveal how attitudes to online harassment can vary between men and women. Read more in Comparitech Are women…
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The tech industry is a sector dominated by men. You’ve probably heard about well-known tech giants like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg, but you might not know about the equally impressive female tech gurus. Research shows that almost…
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The Gender Gap Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg for Black Women By Sonya George
25 June 2020Views: 1,061In our study of Women in the Workplace, we found that African American or Black women face larger hurdles to advancement compared to their Caucasian or White counterparts. In fact, they are the least likely group to feel included in…
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Closing the Gender Gap in Sales Leadership By Frances Brooks Taplett , Roger Premo , Marina Nekrasova , and Maegan Becker
4 January 2020Views: 1,063Sales leadership has a gender gap problem. Even though women meet their sales quotas as well as or better than men, there’s a dearth of women in top sales roles. Indeed, there are fewer women leaders in sales than in…
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Women Score Higher Than Men in Most Leadership Skills By Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman
5 October 2019Views: 841Women are perceived by their managers — particularly their male managers — to be slightly more effective than men at every hierarchical level and in virtually every functional area of the organization. That includes the traditional male bastions of IT,…