Since the 1980s, gender-based toy marketing and division of toys by gender have become even more prominent. Elana Herbst, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek discuss how funneling children toward certain toys can reinforce harmful stereotypes and exacerbate gender disparities in fields like STEM.
“Not only does Facebook not care enough to allocate even the basic modicum of resources to ensure safety in the developing world, but even those who take on the task of bringing Facebook to task—U.S. lawmakers and regulators, the whistleblowers, and the media with privileged access—don’t seem to care much for them either or at least trust them enough to include them,” writes Bhaskar Chakravorti.
It is becoming increasingly clear that business as usual is no longer an option in regards to climate change, and the costs of inaction are becoming untenable. Grzegorz Peszko, Richard Record, Sanja Madzarevic-Sujster, and Simon David Ellis explain why there are grounds for optimism for a green transition in the Western Balkans.
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