Internet giant Google has fired the male engineer at the center of an uproar in Silicon Valley over the past week after he authored an internal memo asserting there are biological causes behind gender inequality in the tech industry. James Damore, the engineer who wrote ...
Program targets social barriers for people with disabilities
Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the enactment of a law banning discrimination against people with disabilities on April 1, a program called Disability Equality Training has attracted attention from municipalities and universities in Japan. The program is aimed at raising awareness mainly among ...
Clues to why a woman can't be more like a man
A recent scientific study suggests that hormones may be responsible for the differences in men's and women's brains.
Restoring balance to LBJ's presidential record
Although only 20 percent of polled Americans rate Lyndon B. Johnson an above-average president — a lower ranking than George W. Bush or Jimmy Carter — the 36th president left a civil rights and medical welfare legacy that changed the fabric of today's society.
Marrying an equal could be boosting inequality
Rich and poor Americans are slowly but surely staking out separate lives — moving to different communities and marrying people of similar income and backgrounds.
Wealth inequality widened dramatically during the first two years of the economic recovery, as the upper 7 percent of American households saw their average net worth increase 28 percent while the wealth of the other 93 percent declined, according to a report released Tuesday. The ...
