Why women must work harder to move up
Getty Images Some research shows women are held to much higher standards than men, and their leadership potential is generally overlooked, even when highly qualified (Credit: Getty Images) When ‘potential’ is seen as crucial to moving up the career ladder, women seem to lose out. Why? In her 2013 book Lean In, Facebook COO Sheryl […]
Female-voice AI reinforces bias, says UN report
BBC Most smart-speaker assistants have a female voice AI-powered voice assistants with female voices are perpetuating harmful gender biases, according to a UN study. These female helpers are portrayed as “obliging and eager to please”, reinforcing the idea that women are “subservient”, it finds. Particularly worrying, it says, is how they often give “deflecting, lacklustre […]
How The Good Place star got so lucky
Justin Lubin/NBC Jameela Jamil stars as Tahana Al-Jamil in the US comedy set in the afterlife Jameela Jamil is in a good place right now. Well, she is – quite literally – in The Good Place, the hit sitcom set in the afterlife that’s just reached the UK. Her major role as Tahani Al-Jamil in […]
The women who left their jobs to code
Getty Images “I never considered myself as someone who could work in tech,” says teacher-turned-coder Jessica Gilbert. It is sentiment that many women identify with – and something backed up by statistics. Studies show that women are less likely to work in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) than men. However, some are beginning to […]
‘Why I made a film for £5,000’
Olivier Assoua Olivier Assoua’s first feature film was shot on a shoestring budget in the small Cameroonian town where he was born. As he tells the BBC, the low cost ensured the movie got made – and this is why his long-held dream is set to be realised when it is released in the coming […]
Why more women don’t win Nobel prizes in science
Getty Fifty-five years after Goeppert Mayer, Donna Strickland won a Nobel prize in physics, shared with laser physicists Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou (Credit: Getty) More women are graduating with PhDs in science – so why was Donna Strickland only the third female physicist to receive a Nobel prize? Though biochemical engineer Frances Arnold also […]
How podcasts went from unlistenable to unmissable
Ben Hammersley Ben Hammerseley who inadvertently christened the podcast One night 15 years ago journalist Ben Hammersley was on a deadline at the Guardian newspaper, writing a column on internet radio blogs. He filed the piece and then, just as he was packing up, got a last minute call from the subs desk (the team […]
Scottish Gossip: Rangers, Celtic, Arsenal, Hibs, Hearts, Aberdeen, Leicester
Rangers have rejected an £11m bid from an unnamed club in England’s Premier League for striker Alfredo Morelos in recent days, according to a report in El Universal in his native Colombia. (El Universal via Sunday Mail), external Celtic target Fabricio Bruno has lost his court case in his bid to rip up his contract […]
The stories that reveal the soul of Ukraine
Alamy/Javier Hirschfeld The history of Ukrainian literature reflects the country’s tragic conflicts, its diverse population, and the people’s distinctive humour, writes John Self. In 2014, when Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, the Russian satirist Vladimir Sorokin wrote about the reaction of his friends to the fighting that followed. “I can’t believe that Russia […]
Severn Trent boss and sex toy founder win businesswomen awards
David M. Benett Chief executive of Severn Trent, Liv Garfield, was praised for her strong focus on customers The boss of a water company and the founder of a luxury sex toy company have won top awards for businesswomen. Liv Garfield, the chief executive of Severn Trent, was crowned Business Woman of the Year at […]