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  Carolina Freire

  

  Amazon scrapped 'sexist AI' tool

  BBC News

  An algorithm that was being tested as a recruitment tool by online giant Amazon was sexist and had to be scrapped, according to a Reuters report. The artificial intelligence system was trained on data submitted by applicants over a 10-year period, much of which came from men, it claimed. Reuters was …

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  Carolina Freire

  

  Workplace niceness can have nasty side effects

  Quartz - Jonah Sachs

  Imagine that eight people walk into a meeting to discuss an important strategic decision for their company. They’re all well-versed in the challenge they face. But two members of the group hold some key piece of information or a perspective that not everybody has considered. Everyone knows, for …

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  Carolina Freire

  

  Women are better in tech than men, says a report

  CNET - Erin Carson

  The Brookings Institution finds that women have better digital skills than men but are still underrepresented in the industry. Think men's brains are better suited for tech jobs? Think again. A report from the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution measured men's and women's digital …

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  Pam Hart

  Jul 24, 2017
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  Julia

  

  Ida Tin’s Battle to Build Clue, a Period-Tracking App

  The New Yorker - Lindsay Gellman

  Ida Tin wanted to build an app to help women track their periods. For months, she went door to door, pitching the concept to early-stage investors in Berlin, London, New York, and Silicon Valley. Often, Tin, a soft-spoken thirty-seven-year-old from Copenhagen with cerulean-framed glasses, was the …

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  Christel van der Boom

  

  Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?

  The Atlantic - By Liza Mundy

  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. 点击这里阅读中文版本 | Read this article in Chinese. One weekday morning in 2007, Bethanye Blount came into work early to interview a job …