Gender Bias

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.

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

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.

The Gossip Girl actress empowered all women on Saturday by sharing a post that highlighted her pure bond with pop sensations Beyonce and Taylor Swift.

The Delhi High Court has closed the proceedings in a PIL alleging gender bias and discrimination in the Indian Air Force (IAF) against women who were not employed as 'airmen' in the technical and non-technical grades in any of its departments.

Goldman Sachs has said it will pay $215 million to settle a long-running lawsuit against the investment bank, accused by current and former employees of gender bias and sexual harassment.

Twitter Inc has been hit with another lawsuit stemming from the recent purging of half its workforce, this one accusing the social media company of disproportionately targeting female employees for layoffs.

Infosys, the Bengaluru-based IT giant, is facing a bias suit in a US court after a former executive, in a complaint last year, accused the company of discrimination in its hiring process, based on age, gender and nationality.

Algorithms used in search engines are capable of exhibiting and amplifying gender bias, according to a new study. The research, conducted using a VPN-based internet search methodology, covered algorithms used by modern AI systems that can produce discriminatory outputs, presumably because they are trained on data in which societal biases are ingrai...

A petition alleging "sections of the Hindu Succession Act are unconstitutional and violate gender equality" was on Tuesday heard by the Supreme Court.

"I think all of us have faced gender bias and not just by the members of the opposite sex," said Vidya Balan

Amazon was hit with five new lawsuits by women who worked in corporate or warehouse management roles, and accused the online retailer of gender bias, racial bias, or both.

As many as five cases have been filed against Amazon.com by women who worked in corporate or warehouse management roles.

Facebook showed different job advertisements to men and women "beyond what can be legally justified," University of Southern California researchers said in a study published on Friday. In contrast, LinkedIn owned by Microsoft did not appear to display such a gender bias in its job advertisements.

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.

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

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.

The Gossip Girl actress empowered all women on Saturday by sharing a post that highlighted her pure bond with pop sensations Beyonce and Taylor Swift.

The Delhi High Court has closed the proceedings in a PIL alleging gender bias and discrimination in the Indian Air Force (IAF) against women who were not employed as 'airmen' in the technical and non-technical grades in any of its departments.

Goldman Sachs has said it will pay $215 million to settle a long-running lawsuit against the investment bank, accused by current and former employees of gender bias and sexual harassment.

Twitter Inc has been hit with another lawsuit stemming from the recent purging of half its workforce, this one accusing the social media company of disproportionately targeting female employees for layoffs.

Infosys, the Bengaluru-based IT giant, is facing a bias suit in a US court after a former executive, in a complaint last year, accused the company of discrimination in its hiring process, based on age, gender and nationality.

Algorithms used in search engines are capable of exhibiting and amplifying gender bias, according to a new study. The research, conducted using a VPN-based internet search methodology, covered algorithms used by modern AI systems that can produce discriminatory outputs, presumably because they are trained on data in which societal biases are ingrai...

A petition alleging "sections of the Hindu Succession Act are unconstitutional and violate gender equality" was on Tuesday heard by the Supreme Court.

"I think all of us have faced gender bias and not just by the members of the opposite sex," said Vidya Balan

Amazon was hit with five new lawsuits by women who worked in corporate or warehouse management roles, and accused the online retailer of gender bias, racial bias, or both.

As many as five cases have been filed against Amazon.com by women who worked in corporate or warehouse management roles.

Facebook showed different job advertisements to men and women "beyond what can be legally justified," University of Southern California researchers said in a study published on Friday. In contrast, LinkedIn owned by Microsoft did not appear to display such a gender bias in its job advertisements.