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Aggregated CLDs showing the most frequent causal links directly (A) or indirectly (B) expressed in CLDs built by 648 model-building groups of participants. All causal links expressed directly by more than 25% of the CLDs (in A) or indirectly by more than 50% CLDs (in B) are shown, with arrow weights proportional to the frequency with which they were expressed. Only one negative link (poverty -> learning material, in A) met this criterion, all other…

With its checkered past, the 2024 Golden Globe Awards saw some historic diversity moments and wins – from its first Indigenous winner in 81 years, to a “Barbie” takeover. The annual ceremony, hosted Sunday night at L.A.’s Beverly Hilton Hotel, kicked off awards season with a couple milestones. Stand-up comedian and producer Jo Koy became the Globes’ first Filipino American host (and the second Asian host in the ceremony’s history, following Sandra Oh). Actor Lily Gladstone became the first Indigenous person to win a…

The management philosophy known as DEI, which had gathered momentum since 2020, has been under siege over the past year because of a collision of legal, economic and geopolitical forces. The Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in colleges, removing the legal rationale buttressing many diversity programs. An expected slowdown in the economy prompted companies to cut jobs and financial support for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. And the Israel-Hamas war and college presidents’ responses to antisemitism…

Researchers found that planting a variety of crops, as opposed to monocultures, increases agricultural yield by limiting soil pathogen growth. The study emphasizes the productivity and stability of diverse plant communities and suggests that these principles can be applied to home gardening. Credit: SciTechDaily.comA University of Kansas study shows diverse crop planting enhances yield by reducing soil pathogen effectiveness, challenging traditional monoculture practices and providing insights applicable to home…

Hollywood’s efforts to improve diversity among filmmakers were disparaged as “performative acts” in a new report detailing the still-scant directing opportunities afforded to women and people of color. Per Variety, the new “Inclusion in the Director’s Chair” report from Dr. Stacy L. Smith at the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that, of the 116 directors attached to the 100 highest-grossing films of 2023, just 14 were women. That 12.1 percent figure is up from last year’s 9 — though it’s not even a 10…

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie may have been the top-grossing film of 2023, but women are still dramatically underrepresented behind the camera in Hollywood, according to two major studies of the industry.At the same time, major studios that pledged to re-examine their diversity and inclusion practices in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 still fail to produce many films from people of color, according to USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. The center’s latest report, titled Inclusion in the Director’s Chair,…

Employees and employers geared up to adopt artificial intelligence at the workplace, with 59 per cent of employees are very confident in their ability to adapt and utilise AI tools, says a survey.According to an Indeed survey, going ahead, diversity and inclusion will take centre stage, as 47 per cent of employers indicate a forthcoming surge in policy adoption. The survey that covered a total of 6,531 individuals, consisting of 1,223 employers and 5,308 employees, noted that the focus will be on adopting AI and meeting…

Access to venture funding for women is poor all over the world, but it’s particularly concerning in Australia, where less than 1% of all private-sector funding in the country went to solely women-founded and -led businesses in 2022. Down under, only 3% of venture capital funding went to all-women-founded teams, and 10% went to teams with at least one woman founder.  A downward trend is emerging. In 2021 and 2020, 21% and 25%, respectively, of VC funding in Australia went to startups with at least one woman founder. …

Apart from sparking widespread protests and renewing conversation around inequalities in the United States, George Floyd’s murder in the spring of 2020 also spurred a slew of promises from Corporate America that they’d do something to address the inequities in the system. But how much has actually been accomplished? Reading our coverage of those months, it feels like the venture capital and startup world was on to something, going by their commitments to start doing something to address the lack of diversity in their…

Credit: Dr Rebecca Hamilton/The University of Sydney A team of international scientists, led by Dr. Rebecca Hamilton at the University of Sydney, has found that rather than dry savannah in South East Asia dominating during the Last Glacial Maximum more than 19,000 years ago, there was a mosaic of diverse closed and open forest types, upending previous scientific consensus. …