Senator Elizabeth Warren pushes for billion-dollar “corporations to act like decent citizens who uphold their fair share of the social contract and not act like sociopaths whose sole obligation is profitability”… research showed an extremely high level of public interest in the idea of making corporations share profits with rank-and-file workers, but that they’d never managed to make the media or the public focus on their plan to increase profit sharing.”

There has always been some censorship on platforms. They have always taken down spam and some child porn. It’s just when you get into certain types of content that people get really upset. One of the big problems is that these platforms were built by homogeneous teams, who didn’t experience the harassment themselves, and who don’t have friends who were harassed. Some of them still don’t understand what other people are experiencing and why change is so important.

The way we teach math in America hurts all students, but it may be hurting girls the most.

Between 84% and 91% of Wikipedia editors are male. While some might argue that an editor’s gender shouldn’t affect their ability to participate, the fact remains that only 17.7% of Wikipedia biographies written in English are about women.

Women of color earn less than 10 percent of bachelor’s degrees in computing, the report says. Low numbers of women of color can also mean missed economic opportunity for a chunk of the population that’s projected to make up the majority of women by 2060. Tech and IT jobs are some of the fastest-growing, highest-paying jobs out there. And that’s not to mention the chance to help shape burgeoning technologies that will impact the future. 

A new study suggests female heart attack patients may be at a higher risk of mortality in the emergency room if they see a male physician rather than a female one, giving greater urgency to diversity initiatives in medicine.

Ibn Khaldun fellow Thamraa Al-Shahrani has spent the past year working in MIT’s Photovoltaics Research Laboratory to improve the stability of perovskite solar cells.

Coding bootcamps for prisoners have been around since 2014, but they used to be exclusively for men. Girl Develop It is one of the women-led programs tackling that problem.

This powerful op-ed argues that you may be cutting yourself off from one of the most effective tactics in the constant struggle to get ahead. What do you think?

Earlier this month, Harvard Business Review published an article reporting that women who decide to take a longer maternity off can expect to pay a price when they return to work. The silver linings playbook: Research shows that new moms who keep in touch with their workplace while on maternity leave are more hireable and less likely to experience unconscious bias.