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Until now, researchers and the public knew very little about how well women were represented outside the federal government.
The latest update to ChatGPT includes a voice assistant that sounds like Scarlett Johansson. The use of the “eerily similar” voice reflects a longstanding gender issue with technology.
Working from home resulted in a rebalancing of housework and childcare responsibilities – but not all couples were affected evenly.
Could it be that girls aren’t pursuing jobs in computer science and engineering because society has told them that’s not what they want to do? Three scholars weigh in.
Why the government’s post-Brexit immigration proposals are particularly bad for women.
Research shows water restrictions can mean well-off households have to cut down on leisure and luxury. For disadvantaged households, and particularly women, it is a different story.
Here’s what research actually says about differences between males and females – and the question of what’s innate and what’s acquired.
As the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society urges the government to consider “compensation” for surrogacy, we need to talk about the implications of this rhetoric for women.
Algorithms that learn from large data sets can pick up inherent social biases. That could perpetuate the biases, or even worsen them.
Being underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math means women can be made to feel they don’t belong, with long-term mental health consequences.
By pre-school children are already thinking about the career they will have when they grow up, and ruling out jobs that do not fit with their gender. We need to get in early to get rid of stereotypes.
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PhD Candidate, Communication & Culture, York University, Canada
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Adjunct Fellow, Griffith University
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Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
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Associate Professor, Associate Chair of Graduate Studies for Environmental Engineering, and Canada Research Chair in Stormwater and Low Impact Development (Tier II), Carleton University
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Professor of Psychology; Faculty Fellow Institute for Policy Research; Professor of Management and Organizations, Northwestern University
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Associate Professor of Law, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Education, University of Houston
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Professor of Psychology, University of Washington
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Poverty and Social Justice, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Reproduction, University of Waterloo
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Research Fellow for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Departmental Lecturer in Gender and International Human Rights and Refugee Law, University of Oxford
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Professor of Psychology, University of Washington