International Epilepsy Day: Fighting Stigma, Mental Health Cost of Living With the Condition

Medicine & Technology Feb 14, 2022

The International Epilepsy Day is held on February 14 to discuss missed moments and fight stigma on people with epilepsy and families suffering discrimination.

Menopause-Related Employment Tribunals Increased Fourfold in the Last Three Years

Sep 05, 2021

An analysis of court records from 2018 to 2021 revealed that employment tribunals involving menopause have quadrupled, examining the ruling of tribunals on menopause as being a disability.

Gypsy Moth, Gypsy Ant to be Renamed in Reverence to the Romani People

Jul 11, 2021

The scientific community has been moving toward a more inclusive and respectful direction by dropping names that reinforce negative stereotypes against certain groups - and the insect kingdom has followed suit.

Minority Scientists and Students Exposed to More Risks During Fieldwork

Nov 05, 2020

Scientists and graduate students who belong to minorities have reported stalking experiences, sexual assault, harassment, threats, guns pulled, and police called on them while conducting fieldwork.

History of Anti-Asian Racism in Science

Sep 23, 2020

There is anti-Asian racism in science happening especially during the tie of health crisis and apparently it is now new, resulting to hate crimes.

Researchers Create New AI Tool for Detecting Unfair Discrimination

Jul 11, 2019

The researchers created an AI tool for detecting discrimination concerning a protected attribute such as gender or race by human decision makers or AI systems that are based on the concept of causality in which one thing, a cause, causes another thing, an effect

LGBT Community: Indonesian Gay Couple Receives 100 Public Stick Beating for having Sex, Human Rights Watch Demands Release

Apr 12, 2017

A gay couple was caught having sex by men who entered their home forcefully. The Indonesian men were then punished under the Sharia law.

Black and Latina Female Scientists Often Mistaken for Janitors, New Study Finds

Mar 31, 2015

Almost 100 percent of the Black and Latina women are routinely mistaken for being janitors.