With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference
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James Damore has sued Google. His infamous memo on women in tech is still nonsense.
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James Damore, the man fired by Google last year after he wrote a memo arguing that there may be biological reasons why women are underrepresented at Google and other tech companies, has sued his former employer.
The Actual Science of James Damore's Google Memo
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The science in Damore’s memo is still very much in play, and his analysis of its implications is at best politically naive and at worst dangerous.
Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
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Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk
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An analysis of premiums and payouts in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri shows that some major insurers charge minority neighborhoods as much as 30 percent more than other areas with similar accident costs.
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads
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Amazon, Verizon, UPS and Facebook among others were found to be limiting job ads to limited age groups.
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
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Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.
A comparative study of fairness-enhancing interventions in machine learning
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This paper seeks to study how computerized decision-making techniques compare to one another, and what accounts for the differences.
Machine Bias
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There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.
The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm
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U of Texas at Austin has stopped using a machine-learning system to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in computer science. Critics say the system exacerbates existing inequality in the field.