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Cinema has helped 'entrench' gender inequality in AI

13 Feb 2023

Study finds that just 8% of all depictions of AI professionals from a century of film are women – and half of these are shown as subordinate to men.

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Wiping down the countertop

Men may not ‘perceive’ domestic tasks as needing doing in the same way as women, philosophers argue

22 Dec 2022

By adding a gender dimension to the theory of “affordance perception” and applying it to the home, a new hypothesis may help answer questions of why...

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Chef in Soho, London.

Women bear brunt of coronavirus economic shutdown in UK and US

21 Apr 2020

New data shows women and people who did not go to university are more likely to have lost work and earnings since mid-March.

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Stem Cell Research

Opinion: We need to break science out of its ivory tower – here's one way to do this

26 Apr 2017

Science doesn't work the same for everyone everywhere - there are huge disparities in access to scientific hardware, and in gender and minority...

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Opinion: Would gender differences exist if we treated all people the same from birth?

22 Nov 2016

Joe Herbert, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience, explores what we mean by 'gender identity' and asks whether we should insist on an equal gender...

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Adolescent girls are the biggest victims in conflict settings

Opinion: Rape, murder, forced marriage: what girls in conflict zones get instead of education

20 May 2016

Pauline Rose (Faculty of Education) discusses the importance of recognising education as part of a humanitarian response.

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Women of the World Festival, Cambridge

Women of the World Cambridge festival line-up announced

08 Feb 2016

Author Polly Vernon and barrister Charlotte Proudman will join talks and performances and a celebration of women’s achievements as part of Cambridge’...

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Let girls learn in conflict settings

09 Dec 2015

Unique threats to girls displaced by conflict prompt exceptional initiative.

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Opinion: Girls can have it all: how to stop the damaging gender stereotyping in schools

03 Nov 2015

Professor Dame Athene Donald (Cavendish Laboratory) discusses actions that schools can take to eradicate unnecessary gender stereotyping.

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Scales of Justice

Refusal to abolish ‘archaic’ rule means gender discrimination is still law in the UK

20 May 2015

In 2010, Parliament voted in favour of abolishing a rule that assumes men but not women intend to give property to family, as part of the then UK...

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Tim Bussey

Cambridge professor and ScienceGrrl celebrate women in science with release of She Blinded Me With Science

06 Nov 2014

A Cambridge professor and an army of ScienceGrrls – with a little assistance from the late Magnus Pyke – will be helping celebrate women in science...

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When gender roles are reversed: equality and intimacy at home and in the workplace

07 Apr 2014

In a paper prepared for the workshop “Gender, Equality and Intimacy: (Un)comfortable Bedfellows?” at the Institute of Education today – Cambridge...

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