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Whiteness in and through data protection: An intersectional approach to anti-violence apps and #MeToo bots
Shelby, Renee; Harb, Jenna Imad; Henne, Kathryn E. - In: Internet Policy Review 10 (2021) 4, pp. 1-25
This article analyses apps and artificial intelligence chatbots designed to offer survivors of sexual violence with emergency assistance, education, and a means to report and build evidence against perpetrators. Demonstrating how these technologies both confront and constitute forms of...
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Retail Strategies to Support Healthy Eating
Moran, Alyssa (contributor);  … - 2020
In January 2020, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), The Food Trust, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Healthy Eating Research (HER) met for a Healthy Retail Research Convention in Washington, D.C. Attendees included food industry representatives,...
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Gender Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Hypertension
Bonsang, Eric; Caroli, Eve; Garrouste, Clémentine - 2021
We investigate the gender gap in hypertension misreporting using the French Constances cohort. We show that false … individual characteristics. As a second step, we investigate the causes of the gender gap in hypertension misreporting. We show …. Once these differences are taken into account, the gender gap in false negative reporting of hypertension is reversed. This …
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Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?
Buser, Thomas; Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik - 2015
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged as a likely determinant of labour market differences between men and women, can provide a...
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Hiring Discrimination in Labor Markets. An Experimental Study of Mood Regulation
Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2021
orientation or the gender of the applicants, led to the observation that females and gay men faced a significantly lower chance of … that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender does exist also in online labor markets. Contributions to the …
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Separate and Unequal: The Effect of Unequal Access to Employment-Based Health Insurance on Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
Ash, Michael A.; Badgett, M.V. Lee - 2004
Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...
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Social Identity and Aspiration - Double Jeopardy or Intersectionality? Evidence from Rural India
Sarkar, Sudipa; Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Lyonette, Clare - 2020
poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest …) - have significantly lower income aspiration when compared to Other Backward Class (OBC) and Other Caste (OC) participants … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find …
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"Doing gender" by sharing: Examining the gender gap in the European sharing economy
Eichhorn, Thomas; Hoffmann, Christian; Heger, Katharina - In: Internet Policy Review 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23
intersectionality theory by discussing how class and gender intersect in facilitating access to the sharing economy. In this study … discussing how class and gender intersect in facilitating access to the sharing economy. … technology access model to examine the role of gender in access to the sharing economy. Applying a "doing gender" perspective, we …
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Social Identity and STEM Choice: Evidence from Higher Secondary Schooling in India
Kumar, Anand; Sahoo, Soham - 2021
in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even …
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Highly-Skilled Migrants, gender, and well-being in the Eindhoven region: An intersectional analysis
Spadavecchia, Camilla; Yu, Jie - In: Administrative Sciences 11 (2021) 3, pp. 1-20
based on semi-structured interviews. Our findings show that gender plays a crucial role in experienced well-being for almost … different factors that influence the respondents' well-being when intersecting with gender. Those factors are migratory status …-being decreases in several areas: career, financial satisfaction, subjective well-being, and social relationships. Significant gender …
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