Why are some STEM fields more gender balanced than others?

S Cheryan, SA Ziegler, AK Montoya… - Psychological bulletin, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Women obtain more than half of US undergraduate degrees in biology, chemistry, and
mathematics, yet they earn less than 20% of computer science, engineering, and physics …

Field experiments on discrimination

M Bertrand, E Duflo - Handbook of economic field experiments, 2017 - Elsevier
This article reviews the existing field experimentation literature on the prevalence of
discrimination, the consequences of such discrimination, and possible approaches to …

[图书][B] The future of skills: Employment in 2030

H Bakhshi, J Downing, M Osborne, P Schneider - 2017 - ora.ox.ac.uk
THE FUTURE OF SKILLS EMPLOYMENT IN 2030 Page 1 1 THE FUTURE OF SKILLS
EMPLOYMENT IN 2030 Research partners Hasan Bakhshi Jonathan M. Downing Michael A …

The role of board gender and foreign ownership in the CSR performance of Chinese listed firms

PB McGuinness, JP Vieito, M Wang - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
China's recent promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has coincided with a
marked increase in the number of Chinese listed firms attracting female board members and …

The growing importance of social skills in the labor market

DJ Deming - The quarterly journal of economics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring
high levels of social interaction grew by nearly 12 percentage points as a share of the US …

Gender diversity leads to better science

MW Nielsen, S Alegria, L Börjeson… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Pick up any recent policy paper on women's participation in science and you will find
assurances that gender diversity enhances knowledge outcomes. Universities and science …

[图书][B] Towards a code of ethics for artificial intelligence

P Boddington - 2017 - Springer
This work has been funded by the Future of Life Institute, as part of the project Towards a
Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Research, awarded under the FLI's 2015 project …

Gender bias in scholarly peer review

M Helmer, M Schottdorf, A Neef, D Battaglia - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Peer review is the cornerstone of scholarly publishing and it is essential that peer reviewers
are appointed on the basis of their expertise alone. However, it is difficult to check for any …

Network dynamics of social influence in the wisdom of crowds

J Becker, D Brackbill, D Centola - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
A longstanding problem in the social, biological, and computational sciences is to determine
how groups of distributed individuals can form intelligent collective judgments. Since …

Women in leadership and the bewildering glass ceiling

MA Chisholm-Burns, CA Spivey… - American Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
DOI 10.2146/ajhp160930 the workplace, particularly as they try to move up the career
ladder. Women in work force sectors such as healthcare (including pharmacy) and …