Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women's Ideological Spaces [PDF]
The Internet has been instrumental in connecting under-represented and vulnerable groups of people. Platforms built to foster social interaction and engagement have enabled historically disenfranchised groups to have a voice. One such vulnerable group is women.
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Gender bias in magazines oriented to men and women: a computational approach [PDF]
Cultural products are a source to acquire individual values and behaviours. Therefore, the differences in the content of the magazines aimed specifically at women or men are a means to create and reproduce gender stereotypes. In this study, we compare the content of a women-oriented magazine with that of a men-oriented one, both produced by the same ...
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Caring Trouble and Musical AI: Considerations towards a Feminist Musical AI [PDF]
The ethics of AI as both material and medium for interaction remains in murky waters within the context of musical and artistic practice. The interdisciplinarity of the field is revealing matters of concern and care, which necessitate interdisciplinary methodologies for evaluation to trouble and critique the inheritance of "residue-laden" AI-tools in ...
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Women in Medicine: Dr. Theresa Tam
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam (BMBS (UK), FRCPC) attended medical school in the United Kingdom before immigrating to Canada where she trained in pediatrics and specialized in infectious disease. She has maintained a ‘pourquoi pas’
Ellen Dunbar-Lavoie
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This study aims to identify the appropriate perspective to describe non-mainstream feminist political thought of NU women. The authors found that political thought of NU women were categorized into the mainstream and non-mainstream thinking.
Linda Dwi Eriyanti
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Gender Data 4 Girls?: A Postcolonial Feminist Participatory Study in Bangladesh [PDF]
Premised on the logic that more, high-quality information on majority world women's lives will improve the effectiveness of interventions addressing gender inequality, mainstream development institutions have invested heavily in gender data initiatives of late.
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Contributions of feminism to International Law in the construction of peace
Feminism and International Law may be considered a relatively recent pairing. While there is a tendency to establish the intersection between both disciplines within the field of women’s rights, feminism in fact goes beyond the claiming of human rights ...
Natalia Álvarez Molinero
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“Nothing To Do But Be Borne And Steered”: Unpacking Feminist Scripts in Elana Arnold’s Damsel
Feminism in novels marketed for young adults often reflects the values of a popular feminism that relies on individual and personal means of empowerment, rather than critiquing or seeking to dismantle systems of domination.
Jenna Spiering, Nicole Ann Amato
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The Ethical Implications of Digital Contact Tracing for LGBTQIA+ Communities [PDF]
The onset of COVID-19 has led to the introduction of far-reaching digital interventions in the interest of public health. Among these, digital contact tracing has been proposed as a viable means of targeted control in countries across the globe, including on the African continent.
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Gender Bias in Multimodal Models: A Transnational Feminist Approach Considering Geographical Region and Culture [PDF]
Deep learning based visual-linguistic multimodal models such as Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP) have become increasingly popular recently and are used within text-to-image generative models such as DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. However, gender and other social biases have been uncovered in these models, and this has the potential to be ...
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