Cyber job listings excluded Colorado workers after salary transparency law went into effect

Dozens of technology companies, including several cybersecurity firms, have excluded remote workers in Colorado from searches for job candidates since a state law requiring pay transparency in job listings went into effect. CyberScoop identified at least five cybersecurity firms or tech companies with active security-related job listings excluding Colorado workers from remote work. The companies represent a small subset of hundreds of employers navigating 2019’s Equal Pay For Equal Work Act, which went into effect on January 1 and requires employers to include compensation in job postings and keep job descriptions and wage records for two years after an employee leaves the company. Advocates for equal pay say that salary transparency is a powerful tool in closing the wage gap between men and women. Companies that implement pay transparency tend to have a lower wage gap at all job levels, the salary data site PayScale found in a 2020 study. A […]

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Creative agency Virtue introduces genderless voice Q to challenge biases in technology

Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Cortana and Bixby–almost all virtual assistants have something in common. Their default voices are women’s, though the role that plays in reinforcing gender stereotypes has been long documented, even inspiring the dystopian romance “Her.” Virtue, the creative agency owned by publisher Vice, wants to challenge the trend with a genderless voice […] Continue reading Creative agency Virtue introduces genderless voice Q to challenge biases in technology

Animated Bathroom Sign

Once upon a time, pants were created. After a while, women were allowed to wear them too. This has made a lot of people happy and been widely regarded as a good thing. There is a problem, however – bathroom signage is largely predicated on the idea that there are two rigid genders which all humans must be sorted into, and they’re defined by whether you’re wearing pants or a dress. [Robb Godshaw], among others, disagrees with this, and set about building a gender fluid bathroom sign.

The project seeks to exploit the traditional symbols of “male” and “female” – …read more

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A NASA Scientist’s Bizarre Theory for Why Astronauts Lose Their Vision in Space

To understand why male astronauts have experienced vision changes in space, we need to study women on Earth. Continue reading A NASA Scientist’s Bizarre Theory for Why Astronauts Lose Their Vision in Space