Hacker News with Generative AI: Gender Bias

The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family (theguardian.com)
A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%

Nobel Prize, Inequality, Science, Gender Bias, Wealth

7 points by xqcgrek2 41 days ago | 3 comments

The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family (theguardian.com)
A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%

Science, Nobel Prize, Gender Bias, Wealth Inequality

8 points by n1b0m 41 days ago | 0 comments

Machines of Loving Grace (clunyjournal.com)
Last year, at a Panera-catered “new faculty appreciation” luncheon, the Dean of my college told me—as I folded my hands across my seven-months-pregnant belly—that I should look for long-term academic employment elsewhere.

Academia, Gender Bias, Discrimination

233 points by greenie_beans 74 days ago | 59 comments

Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women (2018) (theguardian.com)

Education, Japan, Discrimination, Gender Bias

14 points by hammock 135 days ago | 0 comments

I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me (businessinsider.com)

Entrepreneurship, Gender Bias, Parenting

98 points by avs733 137 days ago | 168 comments

New Data Shows Women Are More Negatively Stereotyped at Work Than Men (forbes.com)

Gender Bias, Workplace, Stereotypes, Social Science, Research

4 points by mooreds 137 days ago | 0 comments

Surprising gender biases in GPT (osf.io)

Generative AI, Language Models, Gender Bias, Research

72 points by mpweiher 193 days ago | 140 comments

Men's physical attractiveness shapes venture capital investment, study finds (psypost.org)

Venture Capital, Gender Bias, Psychology, Business, Attractiveness

11 points by akyuu 278 days ago | 3 comments