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Gender Differences in Scientific Careers: Representation, Recognition & Gaps
As someone deeply interested in gender equity, I found a 2021 study analyzing millions of academic careers from 1996–2018 across disciplines both enlightening and disheartening.…
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Word Embeddings & Culture: How Language Reveals Implicit Biases
One of the most mind-blowing ideas I’ve encountered lately is that computers can help us measure cultural meaning. Specifically, researchers use a method called word…
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Takeaways From “Family matters: Primary gender socialization and gender-based violence in paid domestic work in Bolivia and Peru” by Nora Goffre
Nora Goffre’s ethnographic study, grounded in fieldwork across Bolivia and Peru, reveals that paid domestic labor is deeply shaped by early gendered socialization, presenting a “regime…
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Takeaways from “Emprendedores and Luchadores: Cuban Entrepreneurship, Socialist State Retrenchment, and the Normalization of Racialized Exclusion” by Hope Bastian
I recently read anthropologist Hope Bastian’s article Emprendedores and Luchadores: Cuban Entrepreneurship, Socialist State Retrenchment, and the Normalization of Racialized Exclusion, and found it super…
