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...those concerns, the task force recommended the University establish more formal mentoring and advising programs for female students interested in the sciences. And they proposed requiring all doctoral students in the sciences to take a training course for teaching fellows “that includes a component of gender bias...
...those concerns, the task force recommended the University establish more formal mentoring and advising programs for female students interested in the sciences. And they proposed requiring all doctoral students in the sciences to take a training course for teaching fellows “that includes a component of gender bias...
...Female undergraduate students continue to report and express concerns about gender bias of teaching fellows in science courses,” the task force reported. “Although the bias is described as subtle, and almost always unintended, it decreases confidence and discourages women students from pursuing more advanced study in science...
...everyone agrees. While the Metro may print more serious news than some of Britain's tabloid papers, "To aim at the mass market, freebies need to be [editorially] neutral," says Jo Groebel, director general of the Dortmund-based European Institute for the Media. Stripped of ideological or political bias, Metro lacks personality, insists Peter Cole, a professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield: "People don't refer to it as 'my Metro.'" As a basic, quick news service, it's only "like switching on the radio news on the hour," Cole says. Of course, the dumbing-down debate...
...don’t think it was a bias against comedians by any means,” she said yesterday. “It was just a bias against a certain type of humor...