SYSTEMIC RACISM AND THE GENDER PAY GAP is a report from the American Association of University Women that examines how systemic racism—including decades of discriminatory employment practices, intentionally inadequate legal protections, and persistent racial stereotypes—has contributed to a pay gap that remains far wider for women of color than for white women.
Read More Gender Pay GapThe Israeli-Palestinian issue goes back nearly a century when Britain, during World War I, pledged to establish a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine under the Balfour Declaration. British troops took control of the territory from the Ottoman Empire at the end of October 1917. Large-scale Jewish migration to Palestine began, accelerated by Jewish…
Read More Israeli-Palestinian ConflictWe all know the media is biased. It may be impossible to have completely unbiased news coverage. Who and what we choose to cover is biased. Our adjectives and adverbs are biased. Want to see how biased your news sources are? Go to the interactive Media Bias Chart (it’s much larger and easier to see!).
Read More Media BiasIn the past two years, there have been numerous firsts with African Americans selected as presidents of predominantly white institutions (PWIs). In 2020, we saw the appointments of Jonathan Holloway of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey; Lynn Wooten of Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts; Dwight A. McBride of The New School in New York City; Darryll J. Pines of the University…
Read More New University HeadsMcDonald’s to increase new restaurant franchise fees from 4% to 5% next year, first increase in nearly three decades; approximately 95% of roughly 13,400 restaurants are franchisee-run (More) What does that mean to already higher prices for our fav burger?
Read More Mickey D’s ups fees2023 Equal Pay Days This is from the Association of American University Women.
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Read More American? Not Anymore!Alina Bradford There are a few occasions, though, where you should decline cookies. Don’t worry—if you find yourself in a situation where you need to decline or simply want to decline for whatever reason, most websites will work just fine without collecting your information. Beware when you’re on an unencrypted website (these websites will have…
Read More 3 Times You Shouldn’t “Accept Cookies” on a SiteLast summer, Risa F. Isard, a research fellow with the Laboratory of Inclusion and Diversity in Sport at the University of Massachusetts, was scrolling through Twitter when a thread by WNBA fan Michael McManus (@getdisdance) caught her eye. The thread was about the media’s centering of 2020 No. 1 overall draft pick Sabrina Ionescu (SI)…
Read More Report: White WNBA players received twice as much coverage as Black players in 2020 season