The only female bus driver in a turkish town, an afghan businesswoman facing death threats, a kenyan police officer protecting victims of violence, and other courageous women. To level the playing field, the researchers recommend tackling the systematic barriers facing women in sport, such as sexist behaviour, the gender pay gap in sports and poor media coverage Most prominently, we have seen workshops specializing on abusive language detection and the detection of sexism at the top natural language processing conference
Facebook ai has a group working on “machine integrity” issues The “mad men” era may be long gone, but the advertising industry continues to portray women in outdated gender roles Google has made efforts in reducing search bias, selection bias, data bias and latent bias in machine learning.
But just because it's subliminal doesn't mean we can't fight it, says alison kay on international women's day. Gender equality in the workplace is a cause of concern for many organisations Here's to improve the gender gap in your workplace. The creators hope to spark a bigger conversation about sexism and misogyny in the movies.
In an effort to find a new approach, researchers at polygraph, hannah anderson and matt daniels, took a different approach to measuring sexism in the film industry Just how sexist is hollywood Their research looks at around 2,000 screenplays, compiling the number of words spoken by male and female characters. Economic growth sexism is bad for the economy