Inequities

A Columbia University study highlights disparities in air pollution emission reductions in the U.S. over 40 years, with minority and lower-income communities experiencing smaller decreases. The research, focusing on data from 1970 to 2010, suggests the need for targeted policies to address these disparities. Credit: SciTechDaily.comDecreases more substantial in high-income neighborhoods.Over the last decades, air pollution emissions have decreased substantially; however, the magnitude of the change varies by demographics,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) researchers, including data and computational social scientists, is reporting new findings that highlight previously unknown ways through which non-white scientists suffer from inequities when it comes to the process of having their research considered, published, and cited, potentially hindering the advancement of their academic careers.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 2007, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada (the Caring Society) and the Assembly of First Nations filed a complaint under the Canadian Human Rights Act, arguing that the Government of Canada's inequitable provision of child welfare and other services to 163,000 First Nations children was discriminatory on the grounds of race and national ethnic origin.…

Credit: John Cameron/Unsplash.com Nobody likes waiting for services, whether it's a long line at the grocery store or an extra half-hour in a doctor's waiting room. Turns out wait times are not the same for everyone: Black Americans and lower income Americans wait longer. This inequity is spelled out in an article in Nature Human…

Despite calls for action, the Canadian government has been slow to address allegations of sexual abuse in sporting bodies. Credit: Shutterstock Sport in Canada is at a crossroads. The ongoing scandal with Hockey Canada highlights the need to take broader societal action to create a safer sport culture. The crisis in sport is rooted in issues of power and control that remain unchecked. There is also a lack of awareness at the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The 1972 Clean Air Act has driven spectacular decreases in pollution from U.S. passenger vehicles but poses a challenge for pollution policy in poor communities, according to the first comprehensive study of air pollution exhaust standards, by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, San Diego; and the University of Pennsylvania.…

Credit: New York University Press Professor Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor and associate professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt, has edited and published "Religion, Race, and COVID-19: Confronting White Supremacy in the Pandemic" (New York University Press, 2022), an anthology exploring the countless challenges, racially charged acts, setbacks, triumphs and newfound hope through the…

Researchers find that gender inequities in mentors’ resources may disproportionately affect women researchers. Credit: National Cancer Institute, Unsplash (CC0, creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) A new analysis of mentoring relationships in academic research finds that gender inequities in the resources available to women mentors in the life sciences appear to disproportionately affect the subsequent careers of women…

Percent of Chicago households with Internet access, by community area. Data sources: American Community Survey (2015–2019) and City of Chicago Data Portal. Credit: University of Chicago Data Science InstituteIn an effort to reduce disparities, the <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>University of Chicago</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Founded in 1890, the University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a…