Gender

Historically, women’s health has taken a back seat to men’s — leaving a persistent gender gap in data, research, and clinical trials. A wave of femtech innovators may finally bring balance. Among them is Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, co-founder and CEO of Natural Cycles, the world’s leading birth-control app. “We need more companies focusing solely on women’s health and women’s issues because that’s what is going to make up for the gender gap in the end,” she tells TNW. Berglund Scherwitzl is a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The gender gap in patent applications is a well-documented phenomenon. While women make up nearly half of the workforce in the United States, they account for only a fraction of patent applications and patents granted. The disparity has significant implications for innovation, economic growth, and a person's career…

a, b Relationships between survey questions and overall TA Rating (by gender) for which male overall TA ratings are lower than female overall TA ratings when male TAs are perceived as lacking in these specific skills—a provides clear and comprehensive explanations and intstructions, b provides clear, relevant and understandable responses to my questions. Credit: International Journal of STEM Education (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s40594-023-00460-5…

Overall comparison of the experimental power literature and sex/gender difference meta-analyses. Overall, 70.6% of sex/gender differences were consistent with the effects of experimentally induced power differences, whereas only 7.8% were inconsistent. When highpower individuals scored higher on an outcome, men tended to also score higher on that outcome. Similarly, when low-power individuals scored higher on an outcome, women tended to score higher on…

Life is full of special occasions that might call for celebration. But one, particularly modern trend is to create a lot of fanfare about announcing the gender of one’s unborn child. It seems like not even a whole month goes by without fire, injuries, or a combination of the two. We’ve gathered perhaps the worst examples of gender reveal parties where something went horribly wrong. From too much enthusiasm mixed with too little safety to terrible ideas with even worse execution, get comfortable as you scroll through,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The exposure of the gender pay gaps in large Australian organizations is a turning point for gender equality, but more must be done to hold employers to account, says a University of South Australia researcher. Workplace diversity expert Professor Carol Kulik says the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA's) release…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The teaching of science has long generated controversy in the United States—from evolution in the early 20th century to climate change today. Debates have also often emerged around how textbooks teach concepts related to social groups, and in particular whether they gloss over complex realities in ways that may mislead students in providing scientific instruction. …

Progress towards gender equality in the UK film industry is slow, a new study whose findings were presented on Tuesday at the Berlin film festival has revealed.The report, entitled Re-Framing the Picture, examined 12,000 films made between 2005 and 2020 by 34 different countries, but focused on the UK, Germany and Canada when drawing its conclusions.These were not encouraging: while there have been “modest” numerical improvements resulting from policy drives, including diversity standards introduced as a subsidy…

Credit: Markus Spiske from Pexels Women continue to face barriers in entrepreneurship, with only 17 percent of small and medium-sized businesses being owned by women in Canada. To address this issue, the Canadian government has introduced the Women Entrepreneurship Strategy. This strategy seeks to address the gender gap and biases in the Canadian…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Considerable research has been devoted to studying gender bias in the physical workplace, especially in the fields of management and economics. Within online platforms, however, gender biases and how they manifest have received far less attention. There are some exceptions, including operational outcomes such as hiring,…