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In the US, black children wait longer to be adopted and cost less to adopt than white children.
In examining and addressing opportunity gaps for racialized students in schools, school boards must learn to account for present-day and historical inequities.
A decade ago, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the latest legislative effort to close the persistent gap between how much women and men earn. Here’s why it hasn’t made much of a difference.
Muslims have long been unfairly stereotyped in films and on TV.
The recent controversy, sloganeering and protests about Sabarimala temple in the Indian state of Kerala obscure the way that the media have used stereotypes of women and caste again and again.
Strategies to support a diverse workforce can be beneficial – but may have unintended consequences.
From romance to job interviews, people living with obesity are less likely to be successful.
In the last year, workplace culture faced major upheaval for working women. We at The Conversation put together our reporting on that very topic from 2018.
Two-thirds of people who report workplace sexual harassment say they lost their jobs or are retaliated against in other ways. Most never receive any money.
What have Gypsies ever done for the UK? There’s metalwork, art, music, boxing, equine expertise, skilled labour … food bank donations.
A survey done of transgender people right after they read a story on the government’s move to deny transgender identity shows the emotional impact that denying that identity can have.
Researchers from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS share the latest research on HIV prevention, treatment and stigma.
American anti-Semitism took an organized form in the 20th century. The German American Bund and the Silver Legion developed a unique culture of hatred for Jews that persists today in alt-right groups.
Chinese researcher, Jainkui He claims to have created the world’s first genome-edited twins. Such action would pose unknown risks to the lives of these children and to humanity as a whole.
For the first time the UK has a working definition for Islamophobia.
Australia’s parliament will soon decide on a bill to try to regulate facial recognition technology, but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
More and more countries are relying on the approach of transparency rather than regulation. Depending on local specificities, the results to date remain mixed.
The marriage equality debate brought the rights of LGBT Australians to the fore - now we need to turn our attention to the ways they are still discriminated against.
Expecting algorithms to perform perfectly might be asking too much of ourselves.
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