[Ramm] [Gendered Innovations] Articles of interest

[Londa Schiebinger]

1. Another great article by Nora NiLoideain and Rachel Adams (attached). They argue that gendered stereotypes in digital assistants violate UN Human Rights law, including the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

2. An excellent EC Horizon 2020 project reviewing the literature on Energy and Gender Research in the Global North. Attached.

3. [PDF] Counterfactual Data Augmentation for Mitigating Gender Stereotypes in Languages with Rich Morphology<http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04571&hl=en&sa=X&d=3330763658506997075&scisig=AAGBfm3EIfy2jFGuXWw_uNPsVQ2BV5nykw&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=ez52Y4EAAAAJ:157695750945470333:AAGBfm2yJQtRxqDt_wvQb-2_xVt7TjjCTw> R Zmigrod, SJ Mielke, H Wallach, R Cotterell - arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.04571, 2019. Gender stereotypes are manifest in most of the world's languages and are consequently propagated or amplified by NLP systems. Although research has focused on mitigating gender stereotypes in English, the approaches that are ...

4. This article demonstrates that women researcher compared to men tend to do more research on women's health [PDF] Female Inventors and Inventions<http://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%2520Files/19-124_2fa61fa0-ab1b-41f4-97eb-0f6fb65d4aee.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&d=4388379324127098429&scisig=AAGBfm2NWetq8CGZJSykJM8GesrnooaOlg&nossl=1&oi=scholaralrt&hist=ez52Y4EAAAAJ:157695750945470333:AAGBfm2yJQtRxqDt_wvQb-2_xVt7TjjCTw>  R Koning, S Samila, JP Ferguson - Available at SSRN 3401889, 2019. Has the increase in female medical researchers led to more medical advances for women? In this paper, we investigate if the gender of inventors shapes their types of inventions. Using data on the universe of US biomedical patents, we find that patents ...

Enjoy!


All best, Londa

Londa Schiebinger
Director, EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project
John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/schiebinger.html

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