Gender

We have the solution to Wordle (#900) on December 6, as well as some helpful hints to help you figure out the answer yourself, right here. We’ve placed the answer at the bottom of the page, so we don’t ruin the surprise before you’ve had a chance to work through the clues. So let’s dive in, starting with a reminder of yesterday’s answer. Yesterday’s Wordle answer Let’s start by first reminding ourselves of yesterday’s Wordle answer for those new to the game or who don’t play it daily, which was “WORST.” So we can say…

Dr Beth Jones. Credit: Nottingham Trent University Quality of life for young trans and gender diverse (TGD) people is being impacted by inconsistent and conflicting parental support, according to research led by Nottingham Trent University (NTU) with the University of Brighton. Created in partnership with the charity Mermaids, the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Every day, families across the U.S. have to make difficult decisions about budgeting, spending, insurance, investments, savings, retirement and on and on. When faced with these choices, financial literacy—that is, knowing how to make informed decisions about money—is key. Yet, Americans in general…

Elagabalus ruled as Roman emperor for just four years before being murdered in AD 222. He was still a teenager when he died. Despite his short reign, Elagabalus is counted among the most infamous of Roman emperors, often listed alongside Caligula and Nero. His indiscretions, recorded by the Roman chroniclers, include: marrying a vestal virgin, the most chaste of Roman priestesses, twice; dressing up as a female…

Trends in women authorship in ice core science. The changing proportions of women first authors versus all authors (bottom) through time. The difference between first and co-author proportions (providing an ‘out-of-sample’ comparison) is shown above; positive (negative) values indicate that women are over- (under)represented as first authors. Beginning in the late 1990s, the proportion of woman first-authored studies exceeds the total woman co-author…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Women at the top executive level of large European corporations earn an average of 1.2 million euros less per year than their male colleagues. Top executive pay also depends on whether an executive function is perceived as "typically masculine" or "typically feminine." These are the findings of a…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Gender stereotypes harm people of both genders—and society more broadly—by steering and sometimes limiting people to behaviors, roles, and activities linked with their gender. Widely shared stereotypes include the assumption that men are more central to professional life while women are more central to domestic life. Other stereotypes link men with math and science and women with arts and liberal…

November 22, 20233min readA new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on genderBy Chris Stokel-Walker Generative artificial intelligence has been touted as a valuable tool in the workplace. Estimates suggest it could increase productivity growth by 1.5 percent in the coming decade and boost global gross domestic product by 7 percent during the same period. But a new study advises that it should only be used with careful scrutiny—because its output…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Advances in areas such as robotics and artificial intelligence enable the automation of a range of occupational tasks, leading to fundamental changes in the nature of work. New research published in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology indicates that the effects of job automation vary across race and gender and, without targeted interventions, will likely result in increasing…

There have been very prominent gender disparities across science fields. Although some of these disparities are diminishing over time, there is still a gap between men and women across multiple dimensions, including recruitment, tenure and, notably, authorship and citation impact. In this article, a study has been carried out to evaluate the gender composition of top-cited authors within different subfields of research. All in all, the results show that…