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Encouraging more STEM Education for Girls, Olay Funds Scholarships with In
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 23 (ANI/NewsVoir): Why are young girls presented with kitchen sets on their birthdays while boys are given toy robots or construction sets? Are our unconscious gender biases holding girls back? According to United Nations, in India women make up only 14
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Research reveals gender bias in lab groups not rooted in personal preferen
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Ithaca (New York) [US], January 23 (ANI): A new Cornell research has revealed that gender bias in physics labs, where typically women worked more on the computer and on communication tasks, whereas men handled equipment more often than not, was not rooted in personal preference.
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Study finds men, women physicians participate differently in academic sett
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Boston [US], January 21 (ANI): According to new research, male and female physicians may assert themselves differently in academic settings. This may lead to gender biases in grading that disadvantage female students and trainees.
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Study reveals females' pain not taken as seriously as men's pain
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Florida [US], April 7 (ANI): Researchers found that when male and female patients expressed the same amount of pain, observers viewed female patients' pain as less intense and more likely to benefit from psychotherapy versus medication as compared to men's pain.
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India's working women battle strongest gender bias across A-Pac: LinkedIn
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 2 (ANI): Even though 66 per cent of people in India feel that gender equality has improved compared to their parents' age, working women still contend with the strongest gender bias across Asia Pacific countries, according to LinkedIn's Opportunity Index 2021 report re
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Explore the entrepreneurial journey of Anooja Bashir -From shattering ster
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram) [India], February 19 (ANI/PNN): It takes a little more than courage to break stereotypes and useless gender bias, the society often adorns an individual with.
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Gender gap reducing efforts made to save neurology workforce: Study
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. (USA), Dec 21 (ANI): Gender bias is observed in society in different institutions. Hence, a new effort is being made to save the workforce of neurology by reducing the gender gap in the field as a study has revealed the dominance of male neurologists.
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Apple Card under investigation over gender bias
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
California [USA], November 11 (ANI): First controversy has hit Apple's recently launched Apple Card after customers complained about card's lending algorithms discriminating against women.
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Disney looking to pull out of lawsuit which alleges discriminatory pay to
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 22 (ANI): Walt Disney Company which has given some female-centric films like 'Moana' and 'Snow White', is now looking to pull itself out of a lawsuit alleging that it is creating gender bias by paying women less than men.
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Women's Day 2019: Laurene Powell Jobs to Sheryl Sandberg, the world’s rich
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Mar 7 (ANI): As much as the technology industry is one of the most sought after and profitable industries today, it is plagued by gender bias. However, some women have made it to the top leadership and are counted among the world’s richest.
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Judicial system, also a ground for gender bias
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], Jun 25 (ANI): Seems like, even the judicial system is not free of gender bias, as claimed by a new research.
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Gender bias leads to extra 239,000 girl deaths per year in India
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.], May 15 (ANI): Gender discrimination results in "excess" deaths of girls under the age of five per year in India, according to a recent study.
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