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Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse

Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data July 12-16, 2021 Free Registration Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. After a 2019 research paper demonstrated that commercially available facial analysis tools fail …

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These Women Are Tackling Our Lack Of Sexual Harassment Policies, Starting With Sabah Unis

Today, Malaysia still lacks a Sexual Harassment Act, and at most only has a section covered in the Employment Act 1955. A few days ago, however, Datuk Seri Rina Mohd Harun announced that the long-awaited Sexual Harassment Bill is expected to be ready by March and will be tabled in …

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Here Is How Women Can Slow Mental Decline

Photo by Darren Baker / Shutterstock.com Take a job earlier in life if you are a woman who wants to keep cognitive decline at bay in your later years. A new study finds that women who work during early adulthood and midlife have slower rates of memory decline later in …

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Evidence Builds That Pregnant Women Pass Covid Antibodies to Newborns

A new study suggests that protective antibodies can be transferred through the placenta, and the baby may receive more of them if a mother is infected with Covid earlier in her pregnancy. One of the many big questions scientists are trying to untangle is whether people who get Covid-19 during …

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Winged CBD for Women!

Press Sample Winged CBD, the world’s first CBD product line formulated exclusively for women. Winged was founded by Jessica Mulligan in 2018 as a women’s wellness brand. Jessica’s mission is to create products that help women feel like the best versions of themselves because when women feel good, they are …

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Kim Chernin, Who Wrote About Women, Weight and Identity, Dies at 80

In a memoir, she also recounted her upbringing as the daughter of Rose Chernin, a Communist organizer convicted of trying to overthrow the government. Kim Chernin, a feminist author and counselor who wrote with compassion about female body dysmorphia and its cultural causes, as well as her own upbringing as …

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5 Main Issues Faced By Women In Tech That This M’sian Coding Academy Is Actively Solving

It’s an oft-quoted claim, how coding is an unfriendly place to women. Women made up only 21% of Malaysia’s cybersecurity workforce in 2017 (though it was still an impressive number compared to the US’s 11% at the time). But Vani Mahadevan—founder of Malaysia’s first women-only coding school, TechSprint Academy—claimed that …

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Her Biz Builds A Community Of Badass Biker Women Who Do Off-Road Tours In M’sia

Alison Grün has always been into biking since childhood. Growing up in France, she was surrounded by a community of bikers, with both parents riding Harley-Davidson motorbikes. When she moved to Malaysia in 2015 for a job, she joined the Ladies of Harley Malaysia community and connected with other women …

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Women Doctors Are Less Likely to Perform C-Sections

Female obstetricians are less likely than their male colleagues to perform cesarean sections, a review of studies has found. Researchers pooled data from 15 studies from around the world covering more than 1.2 million births supervised by female and male doctors, plus 11 studies that used hypothetical scenarios to assess …

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