Amy Bhatt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Dillon Mahmoudi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Amazon, like the entire tech sector, has suffered from a lack of diversity in its workforce. This trend is likely to continue when it opens a second headquarters in one of 20 cities.
Hernán Galperin, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Sexism has long been an unfortunate feature of the workplace, but is male privilege still a problem when the gig economy makes most of our office interactions virtual?
Companies have long tended to protect rather than punish high-profile harassers. That may change as the #MeToo movement inspires more women to speak out.
Introspection won’t necessarily reveal what’s going on in there.
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Prejudice and stereotypes are part of why social inequality persists. Social scientists use tests to measure the implicit biases people harbor and see how much they relate to actions.
Attendees chat during Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network conference in 2014.
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Republicans rewriting the tax system have a rare opportunity to fix a major problem: most women-owned companies can’t take advantage of key provisions designed to help small businesses like theirs.
Cities aren’t just a male creation, but women’s contributions have been sidelined. There are ways we can rediscover and restore these women to their rightful place in the stories of our cities.
Five years after a major sexism scandal, Silicon Valley’s misogynist culture remains strong and pervasive – and history reveals the stakes could be as high as the entire US tech sector.
Healthcare workers tend to think that women are better than men at the job and that there is a bias in favour of women.
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The effect of gender quotas on an organisation’s performance depends on employee’s attitude towards quotas, which in turn depends on the labour market environment.
Lisa Gerrard performing in Budapest, 2012. She is one of Australia’s few successful female composers for screen.
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Just 13% of those composing music for screen are women, according to membership figures from APRA AMCOS, the organisation that looks after copyright for songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia…
Original content made by subscription and on demand platforms such as Netflix and Amazon is taking off – but what does that mean for women screenwriters and producers?
Why do we think of a firefighter as a man and a nurse as a woman and not the other way around?
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Recent incidents reveal more than just men behaving badly. They show the consequences when corporate cultures are driven by hyper-masculine personalities at the top.
The clash over South Africa’s Traditional Courts Bill is essentially about custom and constitutionalism. The government is often seen as pandering to traditional leaders’ whims.