Gender Bias and Social Justice

Gender representation and social justice: Ideology, methodology and smoke-screens

A number of researchers have provided an overview of the progress of research focusing on gender and educational leadership/management in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Bjork, 2000; Blackmore, 2006; Shakeshaft, 1993, 1999; Tallerico & Blount, 2004; Zheng, 1999). Shakeshaft (1999 p. 522) casts descriptive studies of representation generally ‘documenting the absence of women’ as an ear...

Positioning of Weight Bias: Moving towards Social Justice

Weight bias is a form of stigma with detrimental effects on the health and wellness of individuals with large bodies. Researchers from various disciplines have recognized weight bias as an important topic for public health and for professional practice. To date, researchers from various areas have approached weight bias from independent perspectives and from differing theoretical orientations. ...

Bias and variance in the social structure of gender

The observation that individuals tend to be friends with people who are similar to themselves, commonly known as homophily, is a prominent and well-studied feature of social networks. Many machine learning methods exploit homophily to predict attributes of individuals based on the attributes of their friends. Meanwhile, recent work has shown that gender homophily can be weak or nonexistent in p...

Reproductive Genetics and Gender Justice

In recent years, the use of gender neutral-terminology has become commonplace. At times, the practice is awkward, as when a writer or speaker avoids generic terms that are also used exclusively for males. "Human" or "person" then replaces "man," and "he or she" is often used instead of merely "he." Despite the awkwardness, this practice may have the positive effect of reminding readers or liste...

Social Justice Through Civil Justice