Just as the dust starts to settle on Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused Fiat Chrysler of using similar methods to illegally manipulate the pollution levels in hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles.
The gender pay gap and the racial pay gap have been well documented, but there’s another inequality in the labor market often overlooked: the sexuality pay gap.
Editor’s note: An earlier headline on this story and language contained in the article incorrectly suggested the ROC survey was a representative sample of female employees of CKE. Both have been fixed.
With growing public awareness of transgender identity, the demand for medical care for trans individuals in the US is burgeoning. Yet, a majority of endocrinologists—doctors who treat hormone conditions—are not trained to provide hormone treatments to trans individuals.
Euthanasia usually denotes a painless, induced death for a terminally ill patient. But in Nazi Germany the term was a euphemism for the systematic genocide of up to 250,000 mentally and physically disabled patients living in institutions in Germany and German-annexed countries.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an epidemic that shows no signs of relenting. In 2013, an estimated 24.7 million people in the region were living with HIV, accounting for 71% of the global total. Worldwide, 2.1 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2015, according to UNAIDS.
The pangolin has walked the earth for 80 million years. Described as a living pinecone and an artichoke with legs, it’s a toothless scaly animal that looks sort of like a snake mixed with an anteater. It’s also one of the most widely traded wild animals in the world. Illegal pangolin trafficking is so common that all eight species of the little-known creature are categorized as “vulnerable,” “endangered,” or “critically endangered.”
When Fox News’ Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump about his thoughts on climate change, the president-elect responded, “Nobody really knows. Look, I’m somebody that gets it, and nobody really knows. It’s not something that’s so hard and fast.” He’s not alone; according to Pew Research less than half (48%) of all American adults believe that the Earth is warming mostly due to human activity. They are wrong, though, and 2016 was the year that news from around the world made climate change undeniable to anyone paying attention.
By updating an 18-year-old religious freedom law, the US Congress has for the first time taken steps to explicitly protect people who identify as atheists.
Yesterday (Dec. 21), President–elect Donald Trump’s transition team sent an email to the State Department asking it to enumerate all of its gender-based initiatives and what funds are allocated to gender-based programs for Fiscal Year 2017. The note also demanded the department provide a list of staff members whose primary duties included promoting gender rights issues.
Social scientists and educators have experimented with many ways to incentivize girls from low-income backgrounds in developing countries to stay in school including providing lunch, bicycles, and toilets.
While 2016 has been a pretty terrible year on many fronts, Bill Gates is choosing to focus on the positive. Reflecting on the year that went by in a newsletter to subscribers of his blog, Gates says that 2016 held some “incredible experiences” for him.
So far this year, 922 people were shot and killed by the police in America. Nearly all of those people were men. Nearly half of those victims were white, while a quarter were black, reports the Washington Post. That sounds good until you account for the fact that, according to the 2015 census, just 13.3% of the US population identifies as black or African American. White people make up 77.1% of the population.
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention classifies youth violence in the country as a public health problem. As the third leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 15 and 24, it beats out cancer, heart disease, and congenital anomalies.
Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” is only one prominent example of a long-standing conservative tradition of eulogizing the past. Progressive politicians often campaign with the promise of a better future. But conservatives recognize that pledging to restore a golden past resonates with their electorate. Environmentalists may want to consider using that to their advantage: a new study shows that focusing on the past is effective in getting conservatives (who are much more likely than liberals to deny climate change) to act to protect the planet.
The Obama administration just arranged a little housewarming gift for Donald Trump.
While educators continue to look for ways to get more young girls interested in science, the issue of gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) persists at later stages as well.
University administrators across the US are struggling to grapple with what is causing the high number of incidents of sexual assault on campus. Nearly a full quarter (23.1%) of female undergraduate college students said they had experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact carried out by physical force, the threat of force, or incapacitation because of alcohols and drugs, according to a survey by the Association of American Universities that had 150,000 students participating from 27 universities.
Optimism is a potent drug.
This article was updated on Oct. 23, 2020.
In yet another attempt to clamp down on abortions in the state, Texas is attempting to dissuade women from getting abortions by deliberately spreading misinformation about the health risks of terminating a pregnancy.
These days it seems like everyone is in the business of either making or spreading fake news.
The US has drawn comparisons to much poorer nations for its terrible record on paid maternity leave and affordable childcare, which often result in harsh circumstances for its working mothers.
Across the US, many LGBT people are still afraid to openly express their sexuality, and government policy can have a direct impact on whether they are comfortable taking that step.
