The Week That Was: IT and Media news week 25
It will take 131 years to reach full gender parity if improvements continue at the present modest speed, World Economic Forum’s annual gender gap report shows. Women remain significantly underrepresented in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce, the report says referring to data from LinkedIn. Women make up almost half (49.3%) of total employment across non-STEM occupations, but just 29.2% of all STEM workers.
The risk of social media platforms being used to violate democracy is addressed by Meta’s Oversight Board. It is recommending the management to develop a framework for evaluating its election integrity efforts to prevent its platforms from being used to promote political violence. The Board has overturned Meta’s original decision to leave up a Facebook video where a Brazilian general calls on people to “hit the streets” and “go to the National Congress and the Supreme Court”. His call came after Jair Bolsonaro had lost the Brazilian presidential election and sounded like an echo of how social media was used to get people to break into the US Capitol.
Artificial intelligence will change the future of psychotherapy, seven researchers write in a work paper. A! can be used in psychotherapy and to battle depression that is a leading cause of disability worldwide. The researchers with backgrounds in psychology and computer science, Stanford University website reports. “Large language models such as ChatGPT and GPT-3/4, built on artificial intelligence, hold immense potential to support, augment, or even replace psychotherapy”, they write..
15% of top podcasts focus on news but crime is podcasters’ favourite subject, a new US survey by Pew Research shows. It confirms earlier studies showing that true crime is the most common subject in several countries. After years of steady, double-digit percentage growth for podcasting, listenership in general is starting to slow, a recent report by market research firm Insider Intelligence shows. Listeners in key markets like the US and UK increase but growth.
No age is the right age to be a woman leader. With an increasingly diverse and multigenerational workforce, age bias now occurs across the career life cycle — especially for women, a research report shows. “Each individual woman may believe she’s just at the wrong age, but the data make the larger pattern clear. Any age can be stigmatized by supervisors and colleagues to claim that the woman is not valued or is not a fit for a leadership role, the researchers write in the Harvard Business Review.
No age is the right age to be a woman leader. With an increasingly diverse and multigenerational workforce, age bias now occurs across the career life cycle — especially for women, a research report shows. “There was always an age-based excuse to not take women seriously, to discount their opinions, or to not hire or promote them. Each individual woman may believe she’s just at the wrong age, but the data make the larger pattern clear. Any age can be stigmatized by supervisors and colleagues to claim that the woman is not valued or is not a fit for a leadership role, the researchers write in the Harvard Business Review.
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