Bias

Most women are ready to offer their organs to their sick husbands to save their lives, but the reverse rarely happens. Such is the deep-rooted patriarchal bias in society.

Women constituted only eight per cent of the total 2,823 candidates in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, with political activists saying it reflects a deeper issue of gender bias and that talk of women's empowerment rings hollow.

The Allahabad High Court has observed that it is difficult for district judges to freely exercise their jurisdiction due to fear of administrative complaints and subsequent transfers.

Reported discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians reached a record high in the U.S. in 2023, driven by rising Islamophobia and bias as the Israel-Gaza war raged late in the year, data from an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Analyzing social media using artificial intelligence may pick up signals of depression in white Americans but not in Black counterparts, according to a study that highlights the risk of training AI models for healthcare tasks without proper data.

The pink tax isn't an actual a government tax; it refers to discriminatory pricing that inflates the cost of goods marketed to women.

The world's most popular AI tools are powered by programs from OpenAI and Meta that show prejudice against women, according to a study launched on Thursday by the UN's cultural organisation UNESCO.

Taking to X, Anirudh Kejriwal shared his grievances, tagging the Gujarat Police, Gujarat BJP, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, and other stakeholders.

Terminating a woman's employment on the grounds of marriage was "coarse case of gender discrimination" and any law based on a gender bias is "constitutionally impermissible", the Supreme Court has said

A former top marketing executive at TikTok sued the social media company and its China-based parent ByteDance on Thursday, claiming she had been forced out of her job after she complained about sex, age and disability discrimination.

Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates are deliberately declared "not suitable" for appointment as faculty members in educational institutions because of "biased" assessment by selection panels, a parliamentary panel has said.

Accusing it of bias, the ruling TMC in West Bengal on Tuesday criticised the Union Home Ministry for seeking a report from the West Bengal government on the attacks on Enforcement Directorate (ED) teams in the state.

Nigar Shaji is a scientist at the UR Rao Satellite Centre, part of ISRO, in Bengaluru and is the project director for India's first space-based solar observatory.

While Rohit Sharma did not criticise the Newlands pitch directly, he was upfront in slamming the attack that Indian pitches come under, particularly for its spinning nature.

Society needs to change the dialogue at home to eradicate discrimination based on skin colour,the Chhattisgarh High Court observed and cited a study to bemoan that dark-skinned women are likely to be portrayed as under-confident and insecure.

Most women are ready to offer their organs to their sick husbands to save their lives, but the reverse rarely happens. Such is the deep-rooted patriarchal bias in society.

Women constituted only eight per cent of the total 2,823 candidates in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, with political activists saying it reflects a deeper issue of gender bias and that talk of women's empowerment rings hollow.

The Allahabad High Court has observed that it is difficult for district judges to freely exercise their jurisdiction due to fear of administrative complaints and subsequent transfers.

Reported discrimination and attacks against Muslims and Palestinians reached a record high in the U.S. in 2023, driven by rising Islamophobia and bias as the Israel-Gaza war raged late in the year, data from an advocacy group showed on Tuesday.

Analyzing social media using artificial intelligence may pick up signals of depression in white Americans but not in Black counterparts, according to a study that highlights the risk of training AI models for healthcare tasks without proper data.

The pink tax isn't an actual a government tax; it refers to discriminatory pricing that inflates the cost of goods marketed to women.

The world's most popular AI tools are powered by programs from OpenAI and Meta that show prejudice against women, according to a study launched on Thursday by the UN's cultural organisation UNESCO.

Taking to X, Anirudh Kejriwal shared his grievances, tagging the Gujarat Police, Gujarat BJP, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, and other stakeholders.

Terminating a woman's employment on the grounds of marriage was "coarse case of gender discrimination" and any law based on a gender bias is "constitutionally impermissible", the Supreme Court has said

A former top marketing executive at TikTok sued the social media company and its China-based parent ByteDance on Thursday, claiming she had been forced out of her job after she complained about sex, age and disability discrimination.

Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates are deliberately declared "not suitable" for appointment as faculty members in educational institutions because of "biased" assessment by selection panels, a parliamentary panel has said.

Accusing it of bias, the ruling TMC in West Bengal on Tuesday criticised the Union Home Ministry for seeking a report from the West Bengal government on the attacks on Enforcement Directorate (ED) teams in the state.

Nigar Shaji is a scientist at the UR Rao Satellite Centre, part of ISRO, in Bengaluru and is the project director for India's first space-based solar observatory.

While Rohit Sharma did not criticise the Newlands pitch directly, he was upfront in slamming the attack that Indian pitches come under, particularly for its spinning nature.

Society needs to change the dialogue at home to eradicate discrimination based on skin colour,the Chhattisgarh High Court observed and cited a study to bemoan that dark-skinned women are likely to be portrayed as under-confident and insecure.