Archive for 'Technology'
How Does Gender Inequality Persist?
Gender inequality continues to exist in advanced industrial societies, such as the US, despite a plethora of changes that work against gender discrimination. Stanford professor Cecilia Ridgeway takes this conundrum one step further. She not only explains why gender inequality continues in the modern world, she also asks if we can predict which type of Silicon Valley start-up would face the greatest persistence of gender inequality in comparison to traditional, hierarchical firms.
Londa Schiebinger keynotes UN conference on gender, science and technology
Londa Schiebinger presented the keynote address at the United Nations conference on Gender, Science, and Technology September 28 through October 1, 2010 in Paris, France. The meeting, co-sponsored by UNESCO, convened a meeting of experts to set the conceptual framework for addressing the pressing issue of increasing women’s access to and decision-making power in science and technology.
Clayman Institute Launches Silicon Valley Thought Leadership Greenhouse
The Clayman Institute, along with the OpEd project, are pleased to announce the launch of a new joint initiative – the Silicon Valley Thought Leadership Greenhouse
Predicting premature infants’ well-being
Clayman Faculty Affiliate Anna Penn, MD, PhD, was a member of an interdisciplinary team that developed a new technique for assessing the probability prematurely born infants will develop more serious medical complications.
Sweet talking your computer
Clayman Affiliate Clifford Nass’ recent article in the Wall Street Journal examines human-computer interactions and concludes, “one can take virtually any finding from the social sciences and apply it to people’s interactions with computers.”
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