Women get fewer chances to speak on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, according to an AI-powered, large-scale analysis of interruptions

An analysis of hundreds of thousands of interactions on cable news programs shows that women interrupt more often than men – and it may be because they also have to fight for equal airtime.

Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology • conversation
Nov. 2, 2022 ~5 min

Partner violence more likely for young gender and sexual minorities

The findings suggest that intimate partner violence "is a prevalent and chronic health problem" for many young sexual and gender minorities assigned male at birth.

Patti Verbanas-Rutgers • futurity
Oct. 17, 2022 ~5 min


Female market vendors defy economics theory

Women traders were more successful than men in Kurmasi Central Market in Ghana but did not pursue a place in the formal economy. Why?

Olivia Hall-Syracuse • futurity
Sept. 13, 2022 ~6 min

Sibling gender doesn’t shape personality traits

The gender of a person's siblings doesn't appear to have a meaningful effect on their personality traits, research in nine countries finds.

Beat Müller-U. Zurich • futurity
Aug. 29, 2022 ~4 min

Academic stress is hardest on certain student groups

Academic stress weighs the heaviest on students who are nonbinary, female, or in their second year of college, a study finds.

Patti Verbanas-Rutgers • futurity
Aug. 10, 2022 ~5 min

Why it’s a problem that pulse oximeters don’t work as well on patients of color

New research ties inaccuracies in pulse oximeter readings to racial disparities in treatment and outcomes.

Megan Lewis | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science • mit
Aug. 2, 2022 ~7 min

Women are better at statistics than they think

Female statistics students had higher final exam grades than their male peers, even though they had less confidence in their statistics abilities at the start of the semester.

Kelly Rhea MacArthur, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Nebraska Omaha • conversation
July 28, 2022 ~5 min

A technique to improve both fairness and accuracy in artificial intelligence

Methods that make a machine-learning model’s predictions more accurate overall can reduce accuracy for underrepresented subgroups. A new approach can help.

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office • mit
July 20, 2022 ~7 min


Search engines have a gender bias problem

Not only do search engine algorithms produce biased results, but they can also make gender bias worse, researchers report.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
July 13, 2022 ~8 min

If we want to build truly sustainable cities, we need to think about how women use energy and space

My research shows how urban design can make it harder for women in some countries to make sustainable choices.

Rihab Khalid, Research Fellow in Sustainable Energy Consumption, University of Cambridge • conversation
July 8, 2022 ~8 min

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