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...GENDER BIAS IN THE ER Women undergo fewer diagnostic tests and are one-third less likely than men to receive invasive treatments, such as angioplasty, for acute coronary syndromes, according to a study of more than 12,000 patients in 28 countries...
NAME: Noni Allwood COMPANY: Cisco TITLE: Director of gender diversity...
...women to major in engineering at the national university. When she raised her hand in class, a professor would tell her to go home and wash dishes. Newly divorced and toting a toddler, Allwood took an IT job in the U.S., where she says her accent, ethnicity and gender-even her complexion-proved major roadblocks. "Customers would say, 'I don't understand your English-let me talk to Eric,'" she says. "None of my competence counted because of who I was. If I were a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Hispanic, though, I wonder how things would have been different...
...says. She retaliated by overcompensating, taking on ever bigger tasks, traveling, working day and night, until she ran the company's worldwide systems programs. Today she tries to change the equation by working on a program to introduce underprivileged girls to IT as Cisco's director of global gender diversity...
Leaders of various student groups convened last night to discuss minority participation in campus politics and to pledge continued cooperation between groups to improve minority representation in political issues. The discussion, co-sponsored by the Harvard College Democrats and a number of ethnic and gender groups, was the first of its kind in recent years and drew around 100 people. “This event we hope is the beginning of a discussion that will last a while and bring substantive changes to how campus politics function,” said Magdey A. Abdallah ’07, outreach director...