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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

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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.

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  Pam Hart

  

  Right Here, Right Now: 27 Simple Actions to Support Women in Tech

  newco.co - By cassie-divine

  If cars can drive themselves and a settlement on Mars is within reach in the next decade, it seems reasonable we could have an awesome environment …

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  Julia

  

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

  The New Yorker - Lindsay Gellman

  Tech investors are eager to throw cash at the next ride-sharing platform, but they have tended to shun products by and for women. 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 …

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  Christel van der Boom

  

  Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?

  The Atlantic - 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 …