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That's according to new research carried out by Bloomberg, which highlighted which countries on the continent are lacking female leadership at the top. It named Ireland and Luxembourg as the two countries in the less-than-flattering position, which comes as a reminder that there is still progress to be made for women to have equal opportunities in top jobs. The 'pink tax': Why are women and men treated differently when it comes to sales?For Ireland, the retirement of Margaret Sweeney, the chief executive of Irish Residential Properties REIT, resulted in all 31 companies listed on Euronext Dubl...
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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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Google’s chief executive has admitted that some of the responses from its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model showed “bias” after it generated images of racially diverse Nazi-era German soldiers amongst other examples. Sundar Pichai told employees in a memo first reported by the news site Semafor on Wednesday that the bias was “completely unacceptable and we got it wrong”. Last week, Google paused Gemini’s ability to create images of people in response to social media posts showing multiple examples of bias. Historical figures such as the US founding fathers, popes, and Vikings were depi...
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Some 80 per cent of men working with tech companies believe that women in the industry are treated equally, according to a recent survey. The findings dispute years of data and the experiences of women in the industry. For Hannah Samano, CEO and Founder of Femtech company Unfabled, there is an idea that the tech ecosystem is open to anyone who wants to play, but she says this is categorically false. “There are invisible structural challenges that currently prevent equality. If you were a man and had never faced these, you probably wouldn’t know they existed,” she told Euronews Next. According ...
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