Category: Social Equality

The totally normal, completely unsurprising lack of women at CES

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For many women at CES, the lack of female representation in the keynote wasn’t surprising. It wasn’t even solely the CTA’s fault. A 2016 study by the National Center for Women and Information Technology found women held 57 percent of all professional occupations yet only 25 percent of all computing jobs. These figures were even lower for nonwhite women: Asian women held 5 percent of jobs in the computing industry, black women held 3 percent and Latinas held just 1 percent.

via The totally normal, completely unsurprising lack of women at CES

Suffragettes 100 years on: Meet the women fighting for females in 2018 – BBC News

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Officers in the city now define misogynistic hate crime as “behaviour targeted towards a woman by men simply because they are a woman”.
That includes things like wolf-whistling and cat-calling.
“I think it’s very easy to say this is the end of flirting, but I don’t think that’s true,” says Martha.
“I think if you’re flirting in a way which you feel might be touchy ground, then you’re flirting in the wrong way.”
Martha ran around 40 training sessions for police on misogynistic harassment and now wants the rest of the UK to follow suit.

via Suffragettes 100 years on: Meet the women fighting for females in 2018 – BBC News

How Technology Ends Inequality – Entrepreneur First – Medium

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There are many good points in this piece, some of them positive, some negative…

240,000,000 Indians use Facebook.
And while Mark Zuckerberg’s bank account contains 10,000,000 times more money than the average Indian’s, his Facebook account works more or less identically.
Quick and cheap distribution goes both ways — it creates financial inequality and experience equality. You can’t pay for a better Facebook experience.

via How Technology Ends Inequality – Entrepreneur First – Medium