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Gender-specific Call of Duty: A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indices [PDF]

Jussi Heikkila & Ina Laukkanen (2020) Gender-specific Call of Duty: A Note on the Neglect of Conscription in Gender Equality Indices, Defence and Peace Economics, forthcoming, 2022
We document that existing gender equality indices do not account for gender-specific mandatory peace-time conscription (compulsory military service). This suggests that gender-specific conscription is not considered to be an important gender issue. If an indicator measuring the gender equality of mandatory conscription was to be included in gender ...
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A Study of Gender Discussions in Mobile Apps [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Mobile software apps ("apps") are one of the prevailing digital technologies that our modern life heavily depends on. A key issue in the development of apps is how to design gender-inclusive apps. Apps that do not consider gender inclusion, diversity, and equality in their design can create barriers (e.g., excluding some of the users because of their ...
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Probing Explicit and Implicit Gender Bias through LLM Conditional Text Generation [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Large Language Models (LLMs) can generate biased and toxic responses. Yet most prior work on LLM gender bias evaluation requires predefined gender-related phrases or gender stereotypes, which are challenging to be comprehensively collected and are limited to explicit bias evaluation.
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Culture, Gender, and Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Colombia [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
This study investigates the impact of integrating gender equality into the Colombian constitution of 1991 on attitudes towards gender equality, experiences of gender-based discrimination, and labor market participation. Using a difference-in-discontinuities framework, we compare individuals exposed to mandatory high school courses on the Constitution ...
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Pay Transparency and Gender Equality [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Since 2018 UK firms with at least 250 employees have been mandated to publicly disclose gender equality indicators. Exploiting variations in this mandate across firm size and time we show that pay transparency closes 18 percent of the gender pay gap by reducing men's wage growth.
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Gender Bias in Text: Labeled Datasets and Lexicons [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Language has a profound impact on our thoughts, perceptions, and conceptions of gender roles. Gender-inclusive language is, therefore, a key tool to promote social inclusion and contribute to achieving gender equality. Consequently, detecting and mitigating gender bias in texts is instrumental in halting its propagation and societal implications ...
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Socio-demographic goals within digitalization environment: a gender aspect [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
The article pays close attention to obtaining gender assessments in the world of work, which made it possible to characterize the effectiveness of social policy aimed at achieving gender equality.
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Analyzing gender inequality through large-scale Facebook advertising data [PDF]

PNAS, 2018 115 (27) 6958-6963, 2017
Online social media are information resources that can have a transformative power in society. While the Web was envisioned as an equalizing force that allows everyone to access information, the digital divide prevents large amounts of people from being present online. Online social media in particular are prone to gender inequality, an important issue
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Improving Gender Fairness of Pre-Trained Language Models without Catastrophic Forgetting [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Existing studies addressing gender bias of pre-trained language models, usually build a small gender-neutral data set and conduct a second phase pre-training on the model with such data. However, given the limited size and concentrated focus of the gender-neutral data, catastrophic forgetting would occur during second-phase pre-training.
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For the Underrepresented in Gender Bias Research: Chinese Name Gender Prediction with Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Achieving gender equality is an important pillar for humankind's sustainable future. Pioneering data-driven gender bias research is based on large-scale public records such as scientific papers, patents, and company registrations, covering female researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs, and so on.
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