When you look at the landscape of professional networking, it is easy to find glossy mixers and corporate panels. But for women navigating intersecting identities of race, ethnicity, immigration ...
It did not require much effort to incorporate into these intersecting forms of oppression the old chestnut that – despite all ...
Age, sex, and disease severity were reported in all studies, but characteristics linked to health inequalities were underreported; for example, 8 (29.6%) studies reported ethnicity and 2 (7.4%) ...
Joanne Song McLaughlin, an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at UB, gives us insight into how the intersectionality of age and gender relates to discrimination laws and social policy.
In California, the pay gap is more than just a gender issue. Latinas earn an estimated 44 cents per dollar that a white man earns, while Black women earn just 58 cents, according to recent data from ...
The reason why diversity is so important for tech teams is because difference in opinions and life experience can lead to more innovative ideas, as well as ensure technology is developed with features ...
Have you ever heard of the term “intersectionality”? Even if the word itself is new to you, the experience it describes may not be. Intersectionality is defined as: “the idea that multiple social ...
California continues to be the birthplace of ideas that complicate employment laws. True to form, it is the first state to adopt the concept of intersectionality in its anti-discrimination statutes.
The National Organization for Women was seen as a radical organization in the 1970s because of its valiant fight to protect reproductive rights for women. But even in those early days, NOW was not ...
Every once in a while, I interview inspiring women who are contributing to changing our perceptions and advocating for the needs of women in leadership. For this piece, I interviewed the president of ...
When you go to the hospital and get a blood test, the results are put in a dataset and compared with other patients’ results and population data. This lets doctors compare you (your blood, age, sex, ...