Tag: gender
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Women in Innovation: Gaining Ground, but Still Far Behind
Patents are a reasonable proxy for the relative contributions of the genders, and there’s a huge disparity still to be overcome World Intellectual Property Day fell on April 26 this year. The theme was “Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity,” so it’s an appropriate time to analyze the gender distribution of scientists and inventors…
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The Google uproar shows that Silicon Valley isn’t a center of innovation, but behind the times
Michael Hiltzik The talk of Silicon Valley just now is a document critical of Google’s workplace diversity programs, written by a now-fired software engineer named James Damore and virally circulated online. Entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” the memo accuses Google of political bias aimed at “shaming into silence” employees wishing to challenge “ideas … too…
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Canada’s innovation Budget 2017
Justin Trudeau’s government has talked a good game on innovation and skills development, but this year’s budget looks like more of the same In some ways, Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s second budget is a vanilla-flavoured budget—generally acceptable and unlikely to offend most people. The government stays the course of Budget 2016, expanding on areas like…
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Canada can spend $8 billion on child care because it will pay for itself, IMF says
ABOVE: Ottawa is vowing to spend billions on childcare in this country…but on what, exactly? International Monetary Fund researchers say the federal government can afford to spend $8 billion annually to reduce the cost of child care spaces nationwide because the program would pay for itself. The proposal is more than 10 times what the…
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