Riot Games to pay $10 million to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
File photo courtesy: Wikipedia/Chris Yunker League of Legends developer Riot Games will pay at least $10 million to women who worked at the company over the...
LGBTQ children from supportive families less likely to be bullied at school
File photo courtesy: Canva. A supportive family environment makes LGBTQ children less likely to be victims of bullying, acording to a UK-based study out...
Study suggests men tend to select majors with higher-paying earning potential than women
Men tend to select post-secondary majors with higher earning potential than women, according to a new study led by sociologist Natasha Quadlin of Ohio...
Here’s what universities can do to keep students from dropping out
Written by: Lenin Cavalcanti Guerra, University of Saskatchewan and Ken S. Coates, University of Saskatchewan. Photo courtesy: Unsplash/Honeyyanibel The Organization for Economic Co-operation and...
Canadian survey reveals unconscious bias keeping women out of leadership roles
Photo courtesy: Canva. Men and women aren’t equally represented in company C-suites, and while there are several factors contributing to a gender gap among...
Number of medical students with disabilities on the rise
File photo courtesy: Pixabay The number of U.S. medical students reporting a disability is on the rise, according to a new research letter in JAMA. Part...
Nature survey reveals the good, bad, and ugly sides of grad school
A global survey of more than 6,300 grad school students has pulled back the curtain on Ph.D. programs, showcasing the good, the bad, and the ugly involved in obtaining the highest levels of education.
The legal reason why ‘OK Boomer’ is considered discrimination but millennial jokes aren’t
Photo courtesy: Unsplash/ Jared Sluyter Written by: Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon The phrase “OK boomer” has become a catch-all put-down that Generation Zers...
Survey: 61% of employees have witnessed or experienced workplace discrimination
PHOTO EDITED BY WE REP STEM. An October 2019 survey of more than 1,100 employees in the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany, reveals 61 per cent...
PROFILE: Sarah Brown, mathematical medicine & biology Ph.D. student
My name is Sarah Brown and I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Mathematical Medicine and Biology at the University of Nottingham, U.K.