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A group of more than a dozen Republican lawmakers is urging a collegiate athletic conference to ban transgender women from competition after reports of a trans student competing on the s women’s volleyball team of a participating university. “Under these guidelines, it is only fair that biological males play men’s sports and biological females play women’s sports.”“Clearly, the Mountain West Conference has dropped the ball,” it continues. In September, SJSU volleyball player Brooke Slusser joined a lawsuit filed by more than a dozen women athletes against the NCAA, which oversees collegiate athletics, about trans athletes’ participation in school sports. The lawsuit argues that the NCAA violated the Title IX rights of cisgender female athletes by allowing transgender women to compete against them. Just last week, Slusser and 10 other former and current athletes in the Mountain West Conference filed a separate lawsuit against the conference and three SJSU staffers, accusing them of violating players’ Title IX rights.

Persons: Utah’s Sen, Mitt Romney, Sen, Mike Lee, John Curtis, Blake Moore, Burgess Owens, Celeste Maloy, Idaho’s Sen, Mike Crapo, James Risch, Russ Fulcher, Mike Simpson, Wyoming’s Sen, John Barrasso, Cynthia Lummis, Harriet Hageman, SJSU, Brooke Slusser, Lia Thomas, University of Nevada and Southern Utah University —, Michelle Smith McDonald, ” Organizations: Republican, Mountain West Conference, NCAA Division, Rep, San, NBC, NCAA, University of Pennsylvania, — Utah State University, University of Wyoming, Boise State University, University of Nevada and Southern Utah University Locations: San José State

☆ Was the Trump Election a Setback for Women? Even Women Do Not Agree.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Dionne Searcey | More About Dionne Searcey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Many historians of women’s equality movements through the decades say that the gains won by women often didn’t benefit all women; rather, they helped privileged women secure more opportunities in society. The fight for legal equality allowed women with the necessary means to pay for college and find jobs with good salaries, for instance. In last week’s election, some women said they specifically appreciated Mr. Trump’s support for their role as mothers. Some believe Mr. Trump will support their position that parents, not the government should decide whether children are vaccinated. And they said they saw the rising cost of groceries as an affront to women trying to feed their families, and something they think Mr. Trump can stem.

Persons: Trump, Harris, Anne, Marie Slaughter

☆ Bleeding and in pain, a woman endures a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Jen Christensen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

In an instant, the impacts of her state’s restrictive laws on abortion care became clear: Had Bell been bleeding from a car accident or a burst appendix, doctors could help her right away. But because she was having a miscarriage in a hospital in Georgia, surgery had to wait. Several others restrict it to certain points in pregnancy, including Georgia, which limits abortion to the first six weeks of pregnancy. Bell’s pregnancy was at 18 weeks — too early for her fetus to survive outside the womb but well past Georgia’s limit. Doctors told Bell she’d have to wait, unless her condition grew worse: Georgia makes people wait 24 hours before they can have an abortion except in medical emergencies.

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☆ Online sales of Plan B and birth control are surging after Trump's election, retailer says
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Wisp, an online pharmacy, said sales of birth control surged after Donald Trump's election win. AdvertisementWisp, an online pharmacy focused on sexual and reproductive health, says sales of birth control and emergency contraception have surged in the United States in the last week. Wisp, which serves over 1.2 million patients nationwide, reported a 1,000% increase in emergency contraception purchases from November 5 to November 6. In the 24 hours after Election Day, Wisp said it saw a 1,650% increase in new patients purchasing emergency contraception. There was a 600% increase in medication abortion sales and a 50% increase in birth control sales.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Trump, —, Donald Trump, Monica Cepak, Cepak, Roe, Wade, Wisp, Amy Hagstrom Miller, Hagstrom Miller, Kimberly Inez McGuire Organizations: Service, Business, Democrats, Reproductive, Gender Equity, White Locations: United States, Texas , Indiana, Oklahoma, California, New York

☆ Lilly Ledbetter, who sued Goodyear for gender discrimination and was an equal pay activist, dies at 86
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Steve Almasy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Lilly Ledbetter, whose gender pay equity legal fight was the inspiration for the Fair Pay Act of 2009, has died at age 86, according to the team making a film about her life. In the 1990s, after 19 years of working for Goodyear, Ledbetter learned she had been making thousands of dollars less each month that other – male – managers. When Barack Obama became president the first bill he signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. “My heart is with Lilly Ledbetter and her loved ones as they mourn her passing,” he said. “Lilly Ledbetter fought tirelessly for equal pay for men and women.

Persons: CNN — Lilly Ledbetter, Ledbetter, AL.com, Goodyear, Barack Obama, Lilly, ”, “ I’ll, ” Obama, “ Lilly, “ Michelle, Chuck Schumer, Lilly Ledbetter, “, –, “ Lilly Ledbetter, Marc Benioff, ” Benioff, hasn’t, Chuy Garcia, Lilly’s, ” Garcia, Deborah Vagins, CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich, Jeanne Sahadi Organizations: CNN, Goodyear, AFL, American Federation of Labor, Industrial, Congress, White, National Committee, Pay Equity Locations: backpay

☆ 500 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize as labor talks continue
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Kristian Burt | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Demonstrators protest outside a closed Starbucks Corp. location at 505 Union Station in Seattle, Washington, US, on Saturday, July 16, 2022. Baristas at a Starbucks in Bellingham, Washington, became the 500th store to join the Starbucks Workers United union on Monday. Since the first location voted to unionize in 2021, more than 11,000 baristas have joined the union, according to a Tuesday press release. "This milestone is a testament to workers building power from the ground up," said Lynne Fox, president of Workers United. The union and Starbucks announced together in February that negotiations would be taking place through a collaborative process to work toward a foundational framework.

Persons: Baristas, Lynne Fox, Brian Niccol Organizations: Starbucks Corp, Starbucks Workers United, Workers, Starbucks Locations: Seattle , Washington, US, Bellingham , Washington, Bellingham

☆ FBI to pay $22M to settle claims of sexual discrimination at training academy
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“These problems are pervasive within the FBI and the attitudes that created them were learned at the academy,” said David J. Shaffer, the lawyer for the women. One of the women said she was admonished to “smile more” and subjected to repeated sexual advances. Men still make up some three-quarters of the bureau’s special agents despite efforts to diversify in recent years. The bureau also has agreed to a review by outside experts who will work to ensure that female recruits face a fair evaluation process. In one case, an FBI assistant director retired after the inspector general’s office concluded he harassed a female subordinate and sought an improper relationship with her.

Persons: ”, David J, Shaffer, leered, ” Paula Bird, Larry Nassar Organizations: CNN, FBI, Old Boy Network, FBI Academy, Associated Press, Justice Department Locations: Quantico , Virginia

☆ New Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol commits to working with union as talks move forward
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Amelia Lucas | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the coffee chain is committed to bargaining in good faith with the union that represents many of its baristas, as the two sides work to craft a labor deal. He was responding to a letter from the Starbucks Workers United bargaining delegation sent a day earlier, ahead of another bargaining session between Starbucks and the union. Three years ago, Starbucks baristas started unionizing under Workers United, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union. Niccol joined Starbucks several weeks ago, making him a newcomer to the union discussions. Today, Workers United represents more than 490 of Starbucks' U.S. cafes and more than 10,500 of its employees.

Persons: Brian Niccol, Niccol, Starbucks baristas, Chipotle Organizations: CNBC, Starbucks Workers United, Starbucks, Workers United, Service Employees International Union, burrito Locations: Lansing , Michigan, Augusta , Maine, U.S

“There’s only one explanation for this staggering difference in maternal mortality,” said Nancy L. Cohen, president of the GEPI. “All the research points to Texas’ abortion ban as the primary driver of this alarming increase.”“Texas, I fear, is a harbinger of what’s to come in other states,” she said. Among Hispanic women, the rate of women dying while pregnant, during childbirth or soon after increased from 14.5% in 2019 to 18.9% in 2022. While maternal mortality spiked overall during the pandemic, women dying while pregnant or during childbirth rose consistently in Texas following the state’s ban on abortion, according to the Gender Equity Policy Institute. Tatum, who was not involved with the GEPI study, said that requests for sterilization procedures among her patients doubled after the state’s abortion ban.

Persons: “, ”, Nancy L, Cohen, Roe, Wade —, Greg Abbott, Bill, ” Cohen, I’d, Leah Tatum, Tatum, ” Tatum, wouldn’t, ‘, Kaitlyn Kash, Kash, “ It’d, Cory, ” Kash, ” “ It’s Organizations: Gender Equity, Institute, Centers for Disease Control, NBC News, U.S, Supreme, Texas Gov, Republican, OB, GYN, NBC Locations: Texas, “ Texas, ” Texas, Austin , Texas, Kansas

☆ Show don't tell: Harris lets her potential to make history speak for itself
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

CHICAGO — The delegates wore Suffragette white; Vice President Kamala Harris wore black. But she does not speak about what it would mean to have a Black woman president in her speeches or TV ads. On Monday, wearing Suffragette white, Clinton placed Harris and herself in the nation’s long struggle for gender equity. Benjamin Lowy / Getty Images fileMoreover, the electorate has shifted, thanks to Clinton, Trump and the fall of Roe v. Wade. After the 2016 election, the Democratic National Committee conducted extensive focus-group and polling research to try to understand what happened.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Eva Longoria, Harris, Hillary Clinton, ” Harris, ”, Tom Perez, Joe Biden’s, Donald Trump, “, Nancy Pelosi, David Axelrod, ” Pelosi, —, Drew Angerer, Clinton, “ We’ve, ” Clinton, Doug Emoff, Gretchen Whitmer, Harris “, who’s, Trump, Harris hasn’t, They’re, Benjamin Lowy, Roe, Wade, Court’s Roe, Biden, ’, Perez Organizations: CHICAGO, Democratic, Convention, Democratic National, University of Chicago, Michigan Gov, Center for Women, Politics, Democratic National Convention, Getty, Democratic National Committee Locations: White, United States, Philadelphia

☆ How Doug Emhoff is amplifying his wife’s historic presidential bid
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Betsy Klein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Confronted with a barrage of negative social media posts from former President Donald Trump aimed at his wife, second gentleman Doug Emhoff eschewed machismo or defensiveness. “That’s all he got?” he said Tuesday of the attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, the new and historic presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. And Monday, he leaned into a cheerleader role as he introduced the vice president at her Wilmington, Delaware, campaign headquarters. So I think that gives you a fairly good indication of if he now would move into a precedent-setting first gentleman role,” McBride said. “This first gentleman role is being a supportive spouse and understanding better than anyone the administration’s goals and how to go about best achieving that,” she said.

Persons: CNN —, Donald Trump, Doug Emhoff, “, ”, Kamala Harris, Harris, Emhoff, Harris ’, Anita McBride, Laura Bush, Jill Biden, he’ll, David Letterman, Seth Schuster, He’s, Joe Biden, Dobbs, –, ” Emhoff, hyping, you’re, it’s, Kamala, that’s, “ He’s, Capricia Marshall, Obama, Clinton, shirk, ” Marshall, CNN’s Dana Bash, I’m, Bash, ” McBride, Marshall, CNN’s Arlette Saenz, Jeff Zeleny Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Georgetown Law, –, Jewish Democratic Council of America, Jewish, White, House Locations: England, Yarmouth , Maine, Nantucket, Vineyard , Massachusetts, Paris, Wausau, Stevens Point , Wisconsin, McLean , Virginia, Wilmington , Delaware, United States, United States of America, Israel

☆ How Coca-Cola is using the Olympics to reach Gen Z as the beverage giant nears 100 years of sponsoring the Games
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Tiara White | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewThe Coca-Cola Company is leveraging the 2024 Paris Olympics to connect with Gen Z as it approaches 100 years of sponsoring the Games. In Paris, Coca-Cola organized six free concerts to appeal to younger audiences during the 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic torch relays. Though the company said it considers Gen Z when creating campaigns, its Olympics marketing caters to all audiences. The Coca-Cola CompanyCola-Cola chose the athletes it's working with based on whether they share the same values as its campaign, "Celebrating Everyday Greatness." As such, Ross said an athlete doesn't have to be a gold medalist or have a huge social-media reach.

Persons: —, Powerade, Brad Ross, Ross, Brooke Raboutou, Jordyn Barratt, Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Bianca Costa, Angela Ruggiero, Sarah Rice, Athing Mu, Alex Morgan, doesn't, Manolo Arroyo Organizations: Service, Cola Company, Games, Business, Cola, Paris Games, International Olympic Committee, North America, Olympics, Olympic Games, US Olympic, Coca, Olympic, Paralympic Games Locations: Costa Coffee, Paris, North, Lujipeka, Costa, South Africa, New Zealand, France, India, US

☆ Secret Service calls right-wing media attacks on female agents ‘baseless’ and ‘disgusting’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The US Secret Service pushed back Thursday against recent criticism from right-wing media personalities and lawmakers blaming female agents for security failures during the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. In a statement Thursday to CNN, the Secret Service blasted misogynist claims that the female agents were incapable of protecting Trump. Such baseless assertions undermine the professionalism, dedication and expertise of our workforce,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement. She is the second female Secret Service director in the agency’s history. Associations that represent women in law enforcement have also reacted to the unfounded attacks on female agents with disappointment and alarm.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Elon Musk, Anthony Guglielmi, Kimberly Cheatle, ” Guglielmi, ”, “ Organizations: CNN, Service, Trump, Secret Service, Fox News, Women, Enforcement, International Association of Women Police, National Association of Women

☆ Right-wing media figures blame women in Secret Service and ‘DEI’ for security failure in Trump shooting
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Hadas Gold | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But one narrative has quickly taken hold in parts of the right-wing media ecosystem: The security failure was the result of workforce diversity initiatives and women working as Secret Service agents. Matt Walsh, a far-right media personality, wrote a series of posts on the social media platform X assailing the notion of women working as Secret Service agents. “There should not be any women in the Secret Service. “Female agents were also among those guarding Trump’s armored SUV as it prepared to depart the scene,” said Campbell. Associations that represent women in law enforcement reacted to the unfounded attacks on female agents with disappointment and alarm.

Persons: Donald Trump, Kimberly Cheatle, Trump, Matt Walsh, ”, Walsh, Josh Campbell, “, Campbell, Barbara Riggs, Riggs, Elon Musk, Laura Ingraham, ” Riggs, Eric Trump, CNN’s Jake Tapper, Cheatle, Joe Biden’s, ” Cheatle, Cheatle’s, Tim Burchett, Kamala Harris, Dan Ball, Cheatle “, Republican Sen, Ron Johnson, they’ve, CNN’s Whitney Wild Organizations: New, New York CNN, Service, Trump, CNN, Equity, Fox News, PepsiCo, CBS, Tennessee Republican, Republican, Senate Homeland Security, Washington Post, Women, Enforcement, International Association of Women Police, National Association of Women, Research Locations: New York, Pennsylvania, Trump, Baltimore

☆ When That Job Promotion Is Really a ‘Glass Cliff’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Jordyn Holman | More About Jordyn Holman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Boeing tapped Stephanie Pope to run its commercial airplanes division in March, positioning her to become the company’s first female chief executive, not all gender equity advocates were celebrating. Examples of the glass cliff abound. When Bed Bath & Beyond was crashing toward bankruptcy, it appointed Sue Gove as its first female chief executive. But some researchers think companies in crisis sometimes turn to women because they are perceived as having the soft skills needed to navigate difficult situations. The glass cliff is also prevalent in other countries and outside the corporate world: in government, sports leagues and at universities.

Persons: Stephanie Pope, Stephanie Linnartz, Armour, Sue Gove Organizations: Boeing, Companies

☆ I'm an exec in Finland, the happiest country in the world—3 ways my company closed our gender wage gap
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-25 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Finland has a history of being the happiest country in the world, and it's among the most gender-equal, too. Many Nordic countries have generous paid leave policies, government-subsidized child care, free college (which can level access to high-paying jobs), pay gap reporting requirements and pay transparency policies. At Framery, a Finnish manufacturing company with roughly 400 employees, the difference between what men and women get paid is roughly 1%. Anni Hallila, Framery's head of people and culture, explains three strategies that helped them effectively close their business's gender pay gap. Salary reviews happen twice a yearFramery's compensation team does a pay audit for their workforce twice a year, Hallila says.

Persons: Anni Hallila, Hallila, Framery Organizations: Nordic Locations: Finland, Framery, Finnish

☆ Throwing money at plunging birth rates won't solve the issue, demography experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Lancet study forecasts that by 2100, over 97% of countries will have fertility rates below the population replacement level. AdvertisementThe Japanese government has also tried to boost fertility rates by offering up to a year of parental leave and even cash incentives. In South Korea, the least fertile country in the world, Seoul is offering people money to reverse their vasectomies or untie their tubes. However, according to Trent MacNamara, a Texas A&M professor whose work has focused on fertility rates, throwing money at the problem can only do so much. Harper said that instead of throwing money at the issue, the biggest chance for success is through promoting gender equity.

Persons: —, isn't, Trent MacNamara, MacNamara, Sarah Harper, Harper, Philip N, Cohen, it's Organizations: Service, Business, gerontology, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Maryland Locations: Tokyo, South Korea, Seoul, Texas

☆ Young men and women are diverging politically. That could shape the 2024 election.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

In 2013, the share of self-identified liberals among young women exceeded the share among young men by 5 percentage points; by 2023, that gap was nearly four times as large. (In that survey, young men were substantially more likely than young women to say they rely on YouTube as a major source of news.) (In the Harvard poll, one-fourth of young women identified in some way as LGBTQ, more than double the share of young men.) “He’s got to make up for the defection of young men by winning young women by more, and he’s got to get every young woman he can out to vote,” said Lake, the Democratic pollster. Biden’s best hope of avoiding a catastrophic decline in his youth support is that the number of young women Trump repels exceeds the number of young men he attracts.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Biden, John Burn, Murdoch, ”, Harvard University’s John F, Daniel Cox, William Frey, Melissa Deckman, Gen, “, Trump, John Della Volpe, Joe Biden doesn’t, Della Volpe, White, Deckman, aren’t, Cox, Dobbs, Anna Dean, Dean, ” Della Volpe, he’s, don’t, ” Cox, “ Donald Trump, “ He’s Organizations: CNN, Trump, Biden, Pew Research Center, Financial, NBC, Democratic, Republican, GOP, Institute of Politics, Harvard University’s, Kennedy, Republican Party, Harvard, Democrats, Survey Center, American Enterprise Institute, Biden didn’t, Brookings Metro thinktank, Religion Research Institute, Biden’s, YouTube, Pew, AEI, Blacks, Harvard Poll, Biden won’t Locations: Gaza, New York, Bentonville , Arkansas, America

☆ Male birth control gel: A long-awaited hormonal contraceptive option for men may be closer to reality
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —After decades of false starts, researchers say they are finally making progress on a long-acting and reversible birth control option for men. The gel was developed by the National Institutes of Health and the nonprofit Population Council, and it takes much the same approach as birth control pills for women. “I would say our expectation was that it would be similar to hormonal birth control pills. The gel also seems to have other advantages over female birth control. To him, it doesn’t feel fair that his partner has to shoulder the burden of birth control.

Persons: “ We’ve, ”, Diana Blithe, Blithe, “, that’s, Matthew Treviño, it’s, he’s, “ I’ve, Emily Fletcher, –, Roe, Wade, ’ “ Fletcher, Treviño, ” Treviño, That’s, Christina Wang, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, Wang, they’ll, Brian Nguyen Organizations: CNN, National Institutes of Health, Population Council, NIH’s National Institute of Child Health, Human, Endocrine Society, World Health Organization, University of California, UC Davis, US Food and Drug Administration, Lundquist, Medical, Get CNN, CNN Health, University of Southern Locations: Boston, Sacramento , California, Davis, University of Southern California

☆ Opinion: I was born into India’s lowest caste. But nothing will stop me from embracing my joy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Opinion Shreeja Rao | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Shreeja Rao Sankul SonawaneMy community of Dalit women are doubly oppressed by caste and gender. Dalit women like me are bound together by a sense of sisterhood woven with each other for as long as anyone can remember, and long before that. I think of my mentor, Beena Pallical, who made history by becoming the first Dalit woman to address the UN General Assembly. But these advances have led Dalit women to significant victories and more freedom than ever before in India’s caste-tainted history. Seeing the only Dalit woman hockey player score a hat-trick at the Olympics, becoming the first Indian woman to do so.

Persons: India CNN —, Shreeja Rao, US Department of State’s Madeleine K, Albright, Shreeja Rao Sankul, cruelties, Beena Pallical, Pallical, —, we’ve, Joy, Ambedkar, India’s, Bhim Geet Organizations: India CNN, Guardian, The, US Department of State’s, Albright Young, CNN, Dalit, Assembly, UN, Olympics, Twitter, Ambedkar Jayanti Locations: Pune, India

☆ NCAA signs off on deal that would change landscape of college sports — paying student-athletes
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( The Associated Press | Nbc News | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

General signage before practice for the first round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament at PPG Paints Arena. Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY SportsA major change could be coming for college athletes — they may soon start getting paid. Other casesThe settlement is expected to cover two other antitrust cases facing the NCAA and major conferences that challenge athlete compensation rules. Hubbard v. the NCAA and Carter v. the NCAA are also in front of judges in the Northern District of California. College sports have been trending in this direction for years, with athletes receiving more and more monetary benefits and rights they say were long overdue.

Persons: Charles LeClaire, —, Charlie Baker, Steve Berman, Grant, Michael McCann, McCann, Logan Riely, Hubbard, Carter, Fontenot, they're, George Zelcs Organizations: PPG Paints, NCAA, ACC, SEC, Former Arizona State, Grant House, Sedona Prince, TCU, NBC, Washington Huskies, Michigan Wolverines, College Football Playoff, Notre Dame, Big, Atlantic Coast, Washington, Oregon State, Northern District of, College Locations: Oregon, amateurism, Houston, Southeastern, Washington State, Northern District, Northern District of California, Colorado, Fontenot

☆ See How Easily A.I. Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew Disinformation
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Jeremy White | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew DisinformationAhead of the U.S. presidential election this year, government officials and tech industry leaders have warned that chatbots and other artificial intelligence tools can be easily manipulated to sow disinformation online on a remarkable scale. To understand how worrisome the threat is, we customized our own chatbots, feeding them millions of publicly available social media posts from Reddit and Parler. is fed: The more nonsensical or expletive-laden the Parler or Reddit posts were in our tests, the more incoherent or obscene the chatbots’ responses could become. We asked, “Should critical race theory be taught in schools?”Mistral declined to comment on the fine-tuning of its models. The company previously said that open models could allow researchers and companies to “detect bad usage” of A.I.

Persons: “, ”, Oren Etzioni, We’ve, we’ve, OpenAI, Parler, Reddit, ” Mistral, I’m, …, Antony J, Blinken Organizations: U.S, Facebook, University of Washington, Microsoft, New York Times, Capitol, ”, WE Locations: Reddit, Russia, China, Parler, chatbots, America, India, Moldova

☆ Opinion: Why I’m putting my ‘Mom’ role on my resume
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Opinion Kara Alaimo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Editor’s Note: Kara Alaimo, an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University, writes about issues affecting women and social media. According to research published last year by Pew Research Center, men who have children out-earn childless men. Lauren Smith Brody, founder of The Fifth Trimester, told me the survey results are consistent with what she has seen in her work coaching moms. As moms, many of us have to become expert at interviewing and hiring in order to find quality childcare providers. Of course, if only a few women add the title of mom to their resumes, they might be discounted by ignorant employers.

Persons: Kara Alaimo, ”, Kara Alaimo Lauren Tetenbaum, they’re, Lauren Smith Brody, “, ” Tetenbaum, I’ve, Barack Obama’s, —, Vivvi Organizations: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Women, Press, Facebook, CNN, Pew Research Center, Brookings Institution, United Nations, Twitter

☆ Australia’s problem with male violence is getting worse. So, what’s the solution?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Late Monday, new figures showed a 28% jump in intimate partner homicide in 2022-23, compared to the previous year – ending what had been a decades-long trend of decline. Around 4,000 people marched through the streets of Brisbane on April 28 to call for action on gendered violence. The deaths took the toll to 27 women allegedly killed by a partner or former partner so far this year, according to the Counting Dead Women project. “We don’t have good programs for men with mental illness and personality disorders who use these types of violence. We don’t have a lot of really accessible drug and alcohol treatment programs for men who use violence.

Persons: Daniel McCormack, Daniel Sloss, “, ”, McCormack, Samantha Bricknell, we’ve, Anthony Albanese, –, Hilary Whiteman, wasn’t, Lukas Coch, Hayley Boxall, Albanese, ’, ” Albanese, ” Boxall, ” Bricknell, Emily Garnett, there’ll, ” McCormack, he’s, “ I’ve, ‘ That’s Organizations: Australia CNN, Australian, of Criminology, ”, Australia, CNN, New South, Australian National University, Wales, Nations, First Nations, Brisbane Locations: Brisbane, Australia, Scottish, Bondi, Sydney, New South Wales, Canberra, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australian, Melbourne, England

☆ India says Europe trade group commits to $100 billion 15-year deal
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-11 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles Shri Piyush Goyal is talking to media on EU-India trade relations. India will waive tariffs on industrial imports from four European nations for a $100 billion investment over 15 years, ending nearly 16 years of negotiations. It envisages that the European Free Trade Association, comprised of Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, will invest $100 billion over 15 years in India's fast-growing market of 1.4 billion people, Trade Minister Piyush Goyal said. "With the new deal, we have secured nil import taxes on nearly every Norwegian good." The five signatories must ratify Sunday's deal before it can take effect, with Switzerland planning to do so by 2025.

Persons: Piyush Goyal, Narendra Modi, Christian Vestre, Goyal Organizations: of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food, United Arab, European Free Trade Association, Trade, Industry Locations: India, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Britain, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein

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