gender discrimination
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Cryptocurrency Exchange Coinbase Reportedly Paid Women and People of Colour Like Shit
The cryptocurrency exchange startup Coinbase consistently paid women and people of colour less than other employees performing similar jobs, new data from the New York Times has found, exposing a glaring pay gap that’s large even by the tech industry’s miserable standards.
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Ex-PayPal Employee Fights To Have Her Gender Discrimination Dispute Heard In Court
A former PayPal employee filed a gender discrimination complaint against the company on Thursday, alleging that her supervisor passed her up for a promotion because the job would require international travel and she had young children at home. Instead, the complaint says, her male colleague with a small child was given the job.
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Male Physicist Claims Women Are Worse At Physics At CERN Gender Bias Talk
This weekend, a prominent Italian physicist, Alessandro Strumia, lectured fledgling female scientists at CERN about the dangers of gender equality and “cultural Marxism” within science, argued that women can’t be as good at physics as men, and complained that the actual victims of gender discrimination are male scientists, including himself, who are passed over for…
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‘Men Preferred’: New Report Reveals Sexist Job Ads From Top Chinese Tech Companies
It’s no secret that being a woman in tech comes with its discriminatory disadvantages, but a new report from the Human Rights Watch reveals that in China, recruiting tactics are troublingly sexist. According to the 99-page report published on Monday, Chinese tech companies including Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu openly discriminate in job ads, noting that…