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Six months ago, roughly 15,000 kilometres away in Melbourne, Australia, a female politician had her breasts enlarged and top cropped by a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool embedded in Adobe Photoshop. "Note the enlarged boobs and outfit to be made more revealing. Can't imagine this happening to a male MP," Georgie Purcell wrote on the social media platform X. Although this incident occurred on the other side of the world, movers and shakers in Europe appear similarly anxious about the newest technological craze stealing headlines and disrupting workplaces: generative AI. These are t...
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Created in 1971 by a young female copywriter in the US, the now infamous L'Oréal ‘Because I’m worth it’ slogan, affirming female worth, came at a time when men were dominating the conception of female-targeted advertising. “It was at the beginning of feminism in the US. And claiming the self-worth of a woman in an advert, it was really the first time it happened,” Delphine Viguier-Hovasse, Global Brand President at L'Oréal Paris, told Euronews Culture at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. “It has been building the whole story of [**L'Oréal Paris**](VivaTech 2022: Luxury gro...
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Gender-neutral acting categories for award shows have been gaining popularity over the years. In 2012, the Grammys removed gendered categories, allowing men and women to compete against each other for all awards, under titles like “Best Perfromer”. Other awards shows have axed their gendered categories to champion inclusivity, like the MTV Movie & TV Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards, and BRIT Awards, who introduced gender neutral awards to be "even more inclusive, recognising exceptional work rather than how artists identify.” Now, in a bid to be more inclusive to gender non-co...
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An AI teammate with a female voice boots women’s participation and productivity at work, according to a new study. Researchers at Cornell University in the US assigned 180 men and women to groups of three and asked them to collaborate virtually on tasks. A fourth teammate which was an AI agent with either a male or female voice, spoke to them and gave them instructions. Participants then became either a minority or majority member of the team based on gender. Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, a postdoctoral associate in information science and the lead author of the study, was feeding lines generated by ...
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The European Parliament attained its greatest gender equality during the 2019-2024 session: of its 705 current lawmakers, some 280 are women. Female advocacy groups fear that this might change with the next legislature, however, if more far-right politicians get elected: their lists are generally less balanced, and they have more conservative policies. We take a look at the gender statistics as Europeans go to the polls this week. How does the situation look now?From just over 16% of female lawmakers in the first directly elected EU Parliament in 1979, the percentage of women rose to 41% in th...
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Club members, including writer and actor Stephen Fry, assembled yesterday at the Garrick, located in London’s theatre district, to debate and vote on the issue. The members, many of them wearing pale pink and green club ties reminiscent of marshmallow flumps, debated the question of women’s membership behind closed doors before putting the matter to a vote. It passed by an almost perfect 60:40 split. Why now? Pressure to admit women to the Garrick has been mounting for decades. But recently, calls to address the stark inequality intensified after the Guardian revealed last month the previously...
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), males live up to 69 years of age while females generally reach 74 on average. But a new study has revealed how sex and gender shape our health and longevity. Being male or female interacts with other variables, such as race, socio-economic status, age, or sexual orientation, increasing the risk of different diseases and varying life expectancy. The new study00053-7/fulltext), published in The Lancet, concluded that men experience a greater degree of health loss and have a higher burden of diseases that lead to premature death, but that women su...
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Over 90% of the best paid bankers in the EU are men, according to figures published by the European Banking Authority (EBA) last Thursday (25 April). For investment firms, the figure – which counts staff who earned over €1 million in 2022 – is over 96%, highlighting the scale of the financial sector’s gender pay gap. EU regulators collect data on financiers’ high pay – driven by the concern that big bonuses can encourage risky behaviour in staff, potentially causing a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. For the first time ever, the data now includes a male-female breakdown – and it paints a t...
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The "pink tax" is not a legal tax, but rather a surcharge or markup on products traditionally marketed towards women, while typically the male version of the same products are less expensive. This can be seen in personal care items such as shampoos, razors, deodorants and more, as well as clothing, shoes and toys, amongst others. Services such as haircuts, car repairs and maintenance, dry cleaning are also affected. Although the pink tax has been spoken about ever since the 1990s, if not earlier, it was taken more seriously in 2015, following the Department of Consumer Affairs in New York City...
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MEPs spent the past 10 months tweaking and upgrading their own rules of procedure – a process initiated by Parliament president Roberta Metsola. The scope of the reform was to address longstanding problems, such as diminished relevance when set against the other EU institutions and visible absenteeism in the chamber during some topical debates. The process ended last week when new rules were finally approved by MEPs. Here’s a sneak peek of how parliamentary business will change during the next mandate. ‘Super’ committeesWith the EU executive increasingly presenting ‘packages’ of laws rather th...
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