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gender bias

Any difference in the amount of screening activities, diagnostic work-up, or aggressiveness of therapy, based on a person's sex
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Ms Justice (retd) Fakhar-un-Nisa Khokhar in her erudite speech in a convention entitled Judiciary and Gender Bias expressed her dismay in these words '...no women in the Supreme Court and those who were to be elevated to the Supreme Court were sacrificed at the altar of gender bias.'
Women underrepresented in superior judiciary?
The study showed gender bias skews the way people perceive an attorney's effectiveness when expressing anger.
Judicial system, also a ground for gender bias
Caption: About 19 deaths out of every 1,000 girls born between 2000 and 2005, was ascribed to the effects of gender bias in India.
Unwanted daughters India die young
In 2018 most women will have had experience of outright sexism or gender bias, whether casual or intended.
We must all stand up to sexism at work
At the moment, however, gender bias remains a significant obstacle to global progress, and it is particularly acute in the workplace.
The business case for working toward gender equality
His rival Richard Leonard has promised to address the gender gap at school by creating a "gender equality training standard" for teachers to help eliminate gender bias in classrooms.
Labour rivals' equality pledges
When we consider the relationship between parental gender bias investment attitude and educational aspiration, we find that parental gender bias attitude significantly decreases the educational aspiration of children and this is significant only for girls not for boys.
Parental educational aspiration and gender inequality of rural children in Bangladesh: the role of parental attitudes of traditional gender role, gender biased capability, and gender
District Judge Michael McShane said he found no evidence to back the players' contention that university officials had denied them due process and subjected them to gender bias while deciding their discipline in a high-profile 2014 case that ended their time with the Ducks.
Lawsuits by former UO players dismissed
Working Paper | Gender-based violence and gender bias in schooling decision (/publication/gender-based-violence-and-gender-bias-schooling-decision)
Higher education and role models key for supporting further gender equality
O'Rourke stressed he hasn't seen evidence of gender bias among his credit union clients -- they hire based on talent, not gender, he said.
Fewer Female CEOs Is Bad for Credit Unions
The bonus should be determined by average gender bias in teaching evaluations at their institution or national averages.
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Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing
Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing
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