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How competition fuels inequality and conflict
Inequality is one of the best predictors of conflict ever found. Except when it isn’t. Consider homicide in the United States. In 1990 and again in 2010, there was an impressive correlation between income inequality
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Plus un pays est développé, moins les femmes font d’études scientifiques (The more a country is developed, the less women do scientific studies)
Aux États-Unis, 8 % seulement des diplômés de sciences informatiques sont des femmes. À l’inverse en Algérie, un pays où 15 % des femmes travaillent, elles représentent 41 % des diplômés dans le domaine des sciences, technologies, ingénierie
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The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
Though their numbers are growing, only 27 percent of all students taking the AP Computer Science exam in the United States are female. The gender gap only grows worse from there: Just 18 percent of
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BLACK-WHITE WAGE GAP GROWS AS AMERICANS REMAIN IN DENIAL
Pacific Standard: A new study finds Americans wildly overestimate the progress we have made toward racial economic equality. Ironically, this news comes days after other research revealed a growing wage gap between blacks and whites, as well as an
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How Fairness Develops in Kids Around the World
The Atlantic: You’re sitting at a table with a friend and a stranger offers you some candy. Hooray! Who doesn’t like candy? But wait! You’re not getting the same amounts. One of you gets four
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This new rule could reveal the huge gap between CEO pay and worker pay
The Washington Post: Thousands of public U.S. companies are likely to soon be forced to share a number many would rather keep under wraps: how much more their chief executives make than their typical rank-and-file
