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Jess Wade Is on a Crusade to Correct Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance

Physicist Jess Wade explains the importance of recognizing female scientists on Wikipedia. She’s created more than 2,000 Wikipedia articles to do just that.....»»

Category: scienceSource:  sciamAug 8th, 2024

Gender targets miss the mark for women in leadership

Gender diversity experts at the University of South Australia are urging governments to rethink their approach to gender targets as new research by UniSA scholars shows that they do not lead to expected improvements in gender equity for women in lead.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMar 8th, 2023

Wikipedia + AI = truth? DuckDuckGo hopes so with new answerbot

DuckAssist provides an AI-powered Wikipedia summary, hoping to avoid hallucinations. Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a cyborg duck. (credit: Ars Technica) Not to be left out of the rush to integrate generative AI into.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsMar 8th, 2023

Gender pay progress stalls on "motherhood penalty": study

There has been minimal global movement toward gender pay equality because many women still face a "motherhood penalty" after having children, a study said Tuesday......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMar 7th, 2023

Addressing campus sexual violence: New risk assessment tool can help administrators make difficult decisions

How do universities and colleges build safer campuses, and better respond to incidents of sexual and gender-based violence? There isn't a simple answer to this question......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMar 7th, 2023

Sex, intimacy and black middle-class Christianity in South Africa: A difficult history

A new book, "Convening Black Intimacy," explores the history of Christianity, gender and precolonial marriage and sex traditions in South Africa in the late 1800s and early 1900s......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMar 7th, 2023

Auditor E&Y dings Asbury"s IT controls but calls Q4 results correct

A Seaport Research Partners analyst called the internal controls issue at Larry H. Miller Dealerships and Total Care Auto minor and easily resolved, and Asbury Automotive expected to have a fix this year......»»

Category: topSource:  autonewsRelated NewsMar 7th, 2023

IDMs upbeat about market prospects for automotive chips

Despite automotive chip customer pull-in momentum reportedly weakening, IDMs in the US and Europe are still highly optimistic about market prospects for the chip segment whose supply and demand imbalance has improved significantly. However, tight sup.....»»

Category: itSource:  digitimesRelated NewsMar 7th, 2023

Sexual minority families fare as well as—and in some ways better than—"traditional" ones, finds pooled data analysis

Sexual minority families—where parental sexual orientation or gender identity is considered outside cultural, societal, or physiological norms—fare as well as or better than "traditional" families with parents of the opposite sex, finds a pooled.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMar 7th, 2023

How Atari is leveraging 50 years of nostalgia | Wade Rosen interview

Wade Rosen wants Atari to come back as one of the most valuable gaming brands. After all, there aren't many 50-year-old gaming companies. Wade Rosen wants Atari to come back as one of the most valuable gaming brands. After all, there aren't many.....»»

Category: topSource:  venturebeatRelated NewsMar 5th, 2023

Researchers find HERC1 protein deficiency causes osteopenia

Bones remain healthy thanks to the fact that they are continuously remodeling, a process dependent on the balance between the activity of osteoblasts—cells that create bone tissue—and the osteoclasts, which reabsorb it. An imbalance between these.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMar 3rd, 2023

The retention problem: Women are going into tech but are also being driven out

By 2029, there will be 3.6 million computing jobs in the U.S., but there will only be enough college graduates with computing degrees to fill 24% of these jobs. For decades, the U.S. has poured resources into improving gender representation in the te.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMar 3rd, 2023

Ermetic’s new capabilities empower users to detect misconfigurations in Kubernetes

Ermetic revealed that its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) can now automatically detect and correct misconfigurations, compliance violations, and risky or excessive privileges in Kubernetes clusters for its customers. Unlike tradi.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsMar 3rd, 2023

Researchers find mechanism that ensures correct DNA segregation in cell division

A research team led by Dr. Gary Ying Wai Chan from the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has uncovered a new mechanism that ensures correct DNA segregation in cell division, where improper cell division will lead to.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMar 2nd, 2023

Weird world of Aussie bees: How one species creates gender balance in the nest

New Flinders University research gives insights into the fascinating world of Australian native bees, finding that one highly evolved species has been shaped by an unusual battle between male and female offspring numbers......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsMar 2nd, 2023

Russia fines Wikipedia for publishing facts instead of Kremlin war propaganda

Third fine since Ukraine invasion targets articles about Russian military units. Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony at the Eternal Flame and the Unknown Soldier's grave in Alexander Garden in Moscow, Ru.....»»

Category: topSource:  arstechnicaRelated NewsFeb 28th, 2023

Neural network algorithm predicts Arrhenius crossover temperature with 90% accuracy

A joint paper by the Department of Computational Physics and Modeling of Physical Processes and Udmurt Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences published in the journal Materials introduces an algorithm that allows for the correct e.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsFeb 27th, 2023

A gender perspective on the global migration of scholars

International recognition is key to many successful academic careers, but research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesshows female scientific researchers are less internationally mobile than their male counterparts,.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsFeb 27th, 2023

Gender pay gap is bigger for some women than others—here"s how to work it out

Women in the UK earn, on average, 14.9 pence less per pound than men, based on the latest data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This means that while men are getting paid from January 1, women have effectively worked for free for the fi.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsFeb 23rd, 2023

How the early universe developed "lumpy clumps of matter"

Ever feel like the universe is just a big carton of old milk? Well, you may be correct......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsFeb 23rd, 2023

The best way to close gender pay gaps is to find the source of unfair pay, says study

Businesses can close gender pay gaps, reward high performance and improve their compensation strategy by identifying the true source of pay inequity and fairly allocating raises to the most underpaid women, according to new research published in Prod.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsFeb 20th, 2023