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As a woman of colour passionate about the intersection of social activism and tech, I have been learning about the huge, terrifying role that AI has on propagating discrimination in our jobs, and l…
|James McMasterJames McMaster on the politics of Hamilton and the need for a musical theatre revolution.
Cultural conservatives aren’t trying to protect language from politics; they are simply sanguine about the politics...
In de afgelopen jaren heb ik honderden keren aan cafétafeltjes gezeten, dinertafels en restauranttafels, koffie drinkend en overleg voerend en pompoenfriandises etend met honderden vrouwen. („Jij overdrijft ook altijd zo vreselijk”, zeggen de vrouwen. „Ik overdrijf helemaal niet”, zeg ik. „Honderden vrouwen zijn het intussen en ze zeggen zonder uitzondering hetzelfde.”)Allemaal wijzen ze me op…
Pandemics affect men and women differently.
Dertig jaar geleden schreef de Amerikaanse filosoof Harry G. Frankfurt een essay over bullshit. Wat Sheila Sitalsing betreft kan het boekje zó opnieuw in de winkels worden gelegd, want aan de Nederlandse talkshowtafels doet gelul het beter dan feiten.
Ik ben namens Nederland Vrouwenvertegenwoordiger bij de Verenigde Naties. En maandag mocht ik in het VN-hoofdkwartier in New York een toespraak houden. Mijn stelling: waarom zou je niet willen dat de wereld voor iedereen, ook voor vrouwen, beter wordt? Dat is alleen een optie als je profiteert van het feit dat alles bij het oude blijft.
Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones.
After the death of Zoë Quinn's alleged abuser, the trolls have escalated their racket, raising the question of whose mental health society tries to protect.
The powerful lesson of a 5-year-old harassment campaign: How to wage a post-truth information war.
Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.
Vanuit een buitenwijk in Haarlem bestiert de Syrische filmmaker Dareen Hasan Halimah een internationaal Arabisch feministisch platform. Ze vertelt me over Arabisch en westers feminisme, over ouderwetse misogynie en moderne onderdrukking door de linkse Gutmensch, en waarom ze de politieke islam wel degelijk gevaarlijk vindt.
Women are much more likely to be injured in car crashes, probably because crash-test dummies are mostly male-shaped
One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…
No! Stop! Go back! Reading the abstract is like taking the red pill in the Matrix.<br><br>In this article we discuss “the game.” “The game” is the quest for mea
“I made a list of hideous men in my life. It includes the president — who assaulted me in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman 23 years ago.”
“I made a list of hideous men in my life. It includes the president — who assaulted me in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman 23 years ago.”
Interview: De afgelopen tien jaar heeft Marietje Schaake (D66) geleerd dat het Europees Parlement een mannenwereld is. ‘Als ik als 29-jarige had geweten wat ik nu weet, was ik er nooit aan begonnen.’
We look back at 10 years of Feminist Frequency
Female-voiced tech often gives submissive responses to queries, Unesco report finds
Following an anonymous complaint, the director of the National Museum in Warsaw took down the works of Natalia LL, Katarzyna Kozyra, and the duo Karolina Wiktor and Aleksandra Kubiak, sparking #bananagate.
Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Home and other AI devices tend to be voiced by women, playing into the stereotype that serving is a woman’s job. But do robots need to be gendered at all?
How sex with robots became safer—and better—than sex with actual men.
#MeToo has not much altered the science professions, and it likely won’t until the culture of science is dismantled and rebuilt from the ground up.
Frustrated by Twitter's silence on abuse against women, Amnesty International crowdsourced its own data and found that the platform was especially toxic for black women.
How many times must famous writers not only fail to confront the violence inflicted by the west, but actually celebrate it?
Feminist writer Laurie Penny joins a Mediterranean blockchain cruise—and finds that the promised crypto utopia feels very far away indeed.
Copyright and the "male gaze": a feminist critique of copyright law
Company faced historic staff backlash following revelation it paid out $90m to an executive accused of sexual misconduct
Employees in Mountain View gathered to add their voices to the global protests, demanding a change to company policies
Google employees are staging walkouts at offices around the world to protest the company’s handling of misconduct allegations against high-level executives.
In plaats van te bekvechten moeten feministen één front vormen, hoor ik vaak. Maar zo’n gezamenlijk perspectief laat weinig ruimte voor verschillen onderling. Die verschillen moet je juist erkennen en benoemen om verder te komen.
The internet giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 million and praised him, while keeping silent about a misconduct claim.
Google reportedly found credible allegations Andy Rubin forced employee to perform oral sex but paid him millions after he left
They’re everywhere, but nobody wants to know about it.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has a chance to do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago.
At Facebook, where men outnumber women almost two to one, the future of news is female.
A software program from Primer scours news articles and scientific journals for women scientists who don't have entries in the online encyclopedia.
Kate Manne on 12 Rules | "Jordan Peterson offers no effective antidote to the problem of the toxic masculine despair he reinforces and dignifies"
Britain’s record on employing female engineers is worst in Europe, says Hayaatun Sillem, CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Word embeddings or word vectors are a way for computers to understand what words mean in text written by people. The goal is to represent words as lists of numbers, where small changes to the numbers
Het literaire werk van vrouwen wordt nog altijd minder literair gevonden dan dat van een man. Corina Koolen onderzocht waar het verschil in waardering voor vrouwelijke en mannelijke auteurs vandaan komt. Haar conclusie: we laten onze beoordeling te veel beïnvloeden door stereotype-bevestigende elementen in de tekst. Koolen, werkzaam als onderzoeker bij het Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (onderdeel van de KNAW), promoveert op vrijdag 18 mei aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA).
Vrouwen moeten vandaag eerder naar huis als statement tegen de loonkloof. Dat bepleit de PvdA op Internationale Vrouwendag. Maar wil je ongelijkheid écht tegengaan als vrouw, blijf dan liever nog een uurtje (of twintig) langer achter je bureau.
Some people dream of a holiday on a tropical island.
It’s disingenuous to celebrate building “feminism” into a product after giving a robot servant a woman’s voice.
Not far from Sand Hill Road exists a private world of wild sex parties and “cuddle puddles.” As one male investor put it, “You could say it’s disgusting but not illegal—it just perpetuates a culture that keeps women down.”
In the toxic environment of online gaming, women play incognito, pretend to be male or say nothing to avoid harassment
Toen ik op klaarlichte dag onder mijn rok werd gegrepen, ervoer ik hoe hevig seksuele intimidatie je hoofd binnendringt. Angst slaat je gedachten lam, voorzichtigheid maakt je wereld kleiner. De seksuele intimidatie waarmee bijna alle vrouwen te maken krijgen, is daarom een groter probleem dan ze misschien lijkt.
Harvey Weinstein is Hillary Clinton’s fault, we have learned from many sources. So is eczema and the Civil War and the fact that your child refuses to learn to tie shoelaces and sticks to Velcro sh…
Exclusive: Women say Google denied them promotions, telling the Guardian they were forced into less prestigious jobs despite qualifications
Algorithms showed a tendency to associate women with shopping and men with shooting.
The company should address the problem it knows it has.
Scandal over discrimination at the company deepens as dozens of current and former staff say they earned less than men despite equal qualifications
In an industry where money rules and male investors are treated like demigods, more and more women are speaking up. But will it work?
The Uber CEO has finally stepped down in the wake of endless corporate sexism allegations and scandal – and the end all started with a blogpost
Once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing, but he was possessed by bottomless, endless, grating, grasping wanting, and wanted more, and got it, and more after that, and …
Officials said it was too financially burdensome and logistically challenging to hand over salary records that the government requested in discrimination case
Meet the Chinese netizens who combine a hatred for the ‘white left’ with
a love of US president Donald Trump.
a love of US president Donald Trump.
Tech company is disputing analysis that female engineers have code rejected 35% more than male engineers and said such leaks make it harder to hire women
Venture capitalists are bright, clannish and almost exclusively male
Sexual misconduct, discrimination and retaliation are rampant and often ignored in tech startups that reject HR practices, women and people of color say
Exclusive: AJ Vandermeyden paints picture of a hostile work environment that promoted less-qualified men and retaliated against her for raising concerns