A new in-depth case study in Science finds that faculty hiring rubrics—also called criterion checklists or evaluation tools—helped mitigate gender bias in these decisions. At the same time, ...

Factors keeping women out It's not always bias or lack of effort that keep women out, said Mary Poulton, head of the UA Department of Mining and Geological Engineering. It can be challenging to find ...

CHICAGO, March 08, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aligning with International Women’s Day, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) released a special issue of SWE Magazine this week, which includes SWE’s ...

Claims of widespread gender bias in tenure-track hiring, grant funding and journal acceptances in the academic sciences are not supported by the data, a new study finds. The paper published in ...

AI systems like ChatGPT amplify gender biases. Studies show LLMs use stereotypical adjectives for men and women, reflecting biases in training data. Female-default voices for digital assistants ...

The world’s largest online encyclopedia mirrors society’s bias towards male achievements. Employers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine can help to change that. Francesca ...

When Charlotte Moser started graduate school, she was the only woman in a shared office with four male students. One day, a classmate casually remarked that he wished she weren’t there so the office ...

A recent UNESCO report reveals that most popular voice-based conversational agents are designed to be female. In the report, it outlines the potentially harmful effects gender bias in artificial ...

There are few things more tenacious than a bias we don’t know we have. Implicit attitudes, buried deep in our mental machinery, can quietly shape how we perceive, judge, and act. We may not feel them, ...