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The percentage of women employed in professional scientific positions has been low but is increasing over time. The U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation have both implemented programs to improve women’s participation in science, and many universities and companies have diversity and equity programs. While most faculty and scientists believe that they are fair and unbiased, numerous well-designed studies published in leading peer-reviewed journals show that ge...

I can't emphasize enough how anyone in the myriad of lofty smart intellectuals [EDIT, per the incisive and spot-on replies--> and corporate MBAs] who run major universities and who, in that role, sent armed-to-the-teeth goons after their own students, should not only not have their jobs as of the summer, they should be marched across campus and pelted with garbage. You betrayed a MASSIVE trust and, in an actual just society where half the country didn't celebrate violence and "iron-hand" poli...

I guess is the new norm. This is what happens when you over police, under inform and prioritise detainment and criminalisation over health and wellbeing.

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This study examined two alternative explanations for disparity in reported work-related experiences and outcomes between black and white managers: treatment discrimination because of race, and differences in human and social capital. Education and training, representing human capital, and racial similarity of network ties and proportion of strong ties, representing social capital, were used to predict whether human and social capital would mediate the relationship between race and the work-re...

First of all, older workers were deemed to be “rusty” – slow, unfit, and at risk of workplace injury. Mature-age job seekers, especially women, felt they were “invisible”. One interviewee said that when she arrived for a job interview the manager’s “face dropped” when she walked into the room. Finally, older workers are seen to be “threatening” – resistant to change, and less willing or able to adapt.