Word: gendered
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...only is the percentage of participation very small online, there are some very strong skews as to who is participating. Visitors to Wikipedia are almost equally split 50/50 men and women, yet edits to Wikipedia entries are 60% male. The gender gap is even greater for YouTube, a site whose visitors are equally male and female, but whose uploaders are over 76% male...
...then-Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks about women in science sparked heated controversy on campus and far beyond it. I disagreed with Summers, but I felt proud of the University’s concentrated efforts in response—more conversations, committees to study gender-based obstacles in the tenure track, and this fall, the opening of a campus women’s center. Then, and now, the best way to confront “bad”—offensive, painful, difficult, or unfavorable—speech is not by silencing...
...possible explanation offered by the study: "Women expect less and negotiate less pay for themselves than do men." Linda Babcock agrees. An economics professor at Carnegie Mellon and co-author of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide, she points to a host of cultural factors that influence women's expectations and actions practically from the day they are born. As the founder of Carnegie Mellon's PROGRESS (Program for Research & Outreach on Gender Equity in Society), Babcock is developing ways to teach negotiation skills to women and girls. One such tool is the Girls Scouts' new negotiation...
Claudia Golden, the Lee professor of economics and the first woman to receive tenure in economics at Harvard, agreed that motherhood posed a serious challenge to gender parity in the academy. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
However, Feldstein said in an interview that gender should not overshadow Athey’s accomplishments...