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However, as with the identity issue, a lot of other things that underline existing inequalities are accepted in most advanced societies.
there has been little reduction in inequality.""The wealthy are always at an advantage here, always have the upper hand,
"What I find so interesting is inequality-reducing innovation, trying to bring equality to consumers.#
or reduced cost artificial knee joints are good examples of potential solutions that can reduce inequalities, but there remains a need to support such innovators,
there has been little reduction in inequality.""The wealthy are always at an advantage here, always have the upper hand,
"What I find so interesting is inequality-reducing innovation, trying to bring equality to consumers.#
or reduced cost artificial knee joints are good examples of potential solutions that can reduce inequalities, but there remains a need to support such innovators,
Due to socioeconomic and gender inequities women in some countries and cultures are not always in a position to negotiate regular condom use so a drug-dispersing suppository can protect against transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections during heterosexual intercourse
the results were similar across race and gender, a finding that encouraged researchers since a previous study suggested African-american stroke rates were not improving.
and heavy enough on sensor data to betray the user s gender, rough height and weight, and more.##
or income inequality is incomplete without addressing the societal ramifications of imprisoning Americans by the millions for long stretches of time with little hope for rehabilitation.
it may still be good enough to identify the gender of a speaker in a room; the number of speakers;
but without changing the identity of the person or altering their facial attributes such as their age gender or overall attractiveness.
As a bonus the app guesses the person's age and gender. Evaluating whether you want to hit on that person is still up to you.
Respitetm allows allows the dose to be adjusted based on a patient's size, age, gender, physiological profile and disease severity.
"Gender diversity is an issue which requires more of our attention.""Although our data cannot explain why women aren't securing more graduate placements,
such as subject age, gender, marital status, and education level; and rudimentary clinical data, such as patientsscores on various cognitive tests.
The clinic sample had a mixture of gender education, comorbidities, behavioral, affective, motor symptoms, and diagnoses.
The closer we move toward gender parity in computer science and engineering, the more welcoming and engaging for women our workplaces will be.
An individual autoantibody profile is influenced strongly by age, gender and the presence of specific diseases or injuries;
and have started believing that it is related to their self-image and masculinity. According to Rose Ricciardelli, assistant professor of sociology at Memorial University in Newfoundland, who also authored the study,
It takes into account variables specific both to race and gender.""The way that we normally diagnose metabolic syndrome appears to have some racial discrepancies where African-american individuals are diagnosed not with metabolic syndrome at a very high rate
and gender. he way that we normally diagnose metabolic syndrome appears to have some racial discrepancies,
He said action must be taken to specifically combat the high level of inequality, discrimination and racism faced by young French people from minority ethnic backgrounds in high-rise suburbs.
"said CEO Jonathan Nelson in a statement. hat can we do to help address gender bias in the innovation capital of the world?
Women have it harder at 22.2 percent reflecting a more general gender issue in the labour market.
#Suicide and gender roles: Reporting distorts reality Men angry and rejected women sociable and mentally ill--a current study by the Meduni Vienna demonstrates that these gender stereotypes prevail when Austrian daily newspapers report on suicide.
This has far-reaching consequences. When it comes to suicidal behaviour there is a clear gender paradox:
the ratio of men to women who actually commit suicide is three to one but with attempted suicides it is exactly the opposite--three women for every one man.
These gender-specific differences are made visible by the formulation the nature and frequency of reported suicide motives.
The study is one of the first investigations to look comprehensively at the subject of gender-specific patterns in the reporting of suicide.
#Girls Who Code Expands To Get More Young Women In Computer science Majors The computer science gender gap struggle in Silicon valley is real.
The nonprofit organization that aims to close the gender gap in technology will grow its Summer Immersion Program from 19 sessions reaching 375 girls to 60 sessions reaching 1
#Technology and Inequality The signs of the gapeally, a chasmetween the poor and the super-rich are hard to miss in Silicon valley.
It hard not to wonder whether Silicon valley, rather than just exemplifying this growing inequality, is actually contributing to it,
The desire to understand why inequality seems to be reaching such troubling levels no doubt accounts for the remarkable success this year of The french academic economist Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-first Century,
And the inequality has gotten only worse since the last recession ended: the top 1 percent captured 95 percent of income growth from 2009 to 2012,
Wage inequality in the United states is robably higher than in any other society at any time in the past,
by his calculations. he standard explanation for rising inequality is the race between the demand and the supply for high skills,
But this is not All in order to explain why rising inequality has been so strong at the very top in the U s.,one needs more than a skill-based explanation.
In Britain and France the overall rise of inequality is less dramatic, but in those countries something else is happening that could be even more worrisome:
a Harvard economist and Nobel laureatehat inequality diminishes as countries become more technologically developed and more people are able to take advantage of the resulting opportunities.
so at a time of increasing soul-searching about the role technology plays in exacerbating inequality. t just seems so obvious to
the explanation for the rise in inequality is not a simple one. Specifically, the role technology is playing is contested complexnd.
Racing Ahead y reading of the data is that technology is the main driver of the recent increases in inequality.
But beyond an agreement that growing inequality is a problem, their thinking could hardly be more different.
Brynjolfsson lists several ways that technological changes can contribute to inequality: robots and automation, for example, are eliminating some routine jobs
Stay in School The exploding wealth of the very rich is only one part of the story of inequality.
And that drives income inequality: demand for highly skilled workers rises, while workers with less education and expertise fall behind.
Hence wages for these jobs dropped throughout much of the 2000s, further worsening income inequality.
The implications for inequality are significant: it could mean that the market for middle-skill jobs may be stabilizing
It an unusual spot of optimism in the inequality discussion. But the underlying problem for much of the population remains. e have a very skill-driven economy without a very skilled workforce,
when asked about inequality in the region. have more questions than answers. I can explain it.
It a simple formula for income inequality and poverty. But the nature of technology itself seems to have made it worse.
If economists are right that income inequality is fueled by disparities in skills and education, then the last chance for many people to find a route into the middle class may be in places like Foothill College.
actually have nets. ne of the largest and most prominent debates in social sciences is the role of technology in inequality,
director of Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. But ne fact that everyone agrees on, he says,
is that the income gaps between those with different levels of education ccount for a good share of the inequality.
Dirty Words Understanding what causes income inequality is important because different answers suggest very different policy solutions.
and Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s and early 1980s jump-started the growth of income inequality seen today in Britain and the United states. Indeed,
Inequality in education is not only hurting the chances of poor children to get ahead, says David Grusky.
But if differences in educational achievement based on family incomes are really what driving inequality, Grusky worries,
That why asking whether technology causes inequality is the wrong question. Instead, we should be asking how advancing technologies have changed the relative demand for high-skill and low-skill workers,
many will surely be left wondering whether the future looks more like Silicon valley high-tech dynamo driving economic prosperity and wealth inequality at oncer,
masculinity versus femininity and so on. In the 1960s and 1970s, Hofstede surveyed more than 100,000 IBM employees to measure how these dimensions varied in different countries around the world.
gender and racial imbalance in the workforce. On Tuesday, Intel's investment arm, Intel Capital, launched a new $125 million fund intended to boost women and minority representation in tech.
Gender and racial problems have been making headlines in Silicon valley in recent months. Most notably, Ellen Pao had accused her former employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, of gender discrimination, a case
which she lost at trial. Some statistics in the tech industry reflect a deeper problem:
It serves as a daily reminder to Prakash of the inequality many countries face when it comes to resources and technology.
and 25 control subjects matched for age and gender. The bipolar patients were all in a normal (euthymic) mood state during the study.
Once restrained, the robot can identify the gender and physical characteristics of the fly and even prepare microdissections to analyze the brain.
Since concussion affects all ages both genders and occurs in all sports being able to make the diagnosis quickly
#Government to force employers to own up to gender pay gap The new measures, which will be defined through a consultation process
head of employment policy at EEF, the manufacturersorganisation, warned against confusing a gender pay gap with equal pay,
and stressed that gender pay reporting must be carried out in a balanced way. However, our survey also revealed a pay gap between men and women at similar levels of seniority,
it seems likely that concerted action on ensuring that women enjoy the same opportunities for career progression as men will ultimately have the biggest impact on addressing any apparent gender pay disparity. ddressing the gender pay gap is the right priority,
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