discrimination
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Daredevil Actor Peter Shinkoda Says Jeph Loeb Told Writers Not to Develop Asian Characters
In an effort to drum up support for a revival of Netflix’s now-cancelled questions from the fandom and to talk about their experiences shooting. While much of the conversation centered on positive experiences the actors had on set, Peter Shinkoda, who played Nobu, took a moment to be frank and honest about one negative element…
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After Screaming About Discrimination, Ex-Google Engineer James Damore Silently Asks Court To Dismiss Lawsuit
More than two years later, the battle between ex-Google engineer James Damore and the company is over, although we won’t know much about how it ended. Earlier this week, Damore and three other men asked a California court to dismiss the lawsuit, which claimed that the company discriminated against conservative white men. Google also joined their…
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WeWork, Former CEO Adam Neumann Accused Of Rampant Pregnancy And Gender Discrimination
WeWork and its chief investor, SoftBank, recently paid out WeWork co-founder and self-declared candidate for “President of the World” Adam Neumann to the tune of $US1.7 ($2) billion just to get his arse out the door amid the company’s disastrous collapse. And he’s left quite a mess behind, with a proposed class-action complaint brought by…
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Bias Against Female Lab Animals Is Messing Up Scientific Research
Gender discrimination in science doesn’t just affect women scientists. It also skews the results of animal research, as a new paper out this week describes. Animals used in experiments are still overwhelmingly male, thanks to outdated stereotypes that hormones like estrogen can distort an experiment’s findings.