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Category: Society & Social Policy

  • Foreign-born women remain underrepresented in Swedish politics

    This research indicates that foreign-born men and women are still underrepresented in Sweden’s parliament and municipality councils, and that higher-income municipalities have a higher share of elected foreign-born women.

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  • Telecom companies shape urban land speculation in Mogadishu

    This research indicates that telecommunications companies have become central to urban speculation and city-making in Mogadishu by helping finance, build, and imagine new development for diaspora and local elites.

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  • Female-child naming is used to resist patriarchal oppression

    This research indicates that Bette-Obudu women use names given to daughters to express resistance to patriarchal oppression and to mark female space within marriage.

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  • Japanese tweets show more acceptance of price hikes after 2021

    This research indicates that tweets about price increases in Japan shifted from mostly anger toward more acceptance after 2021, with some posts even expressing positive feelings and mentioning salary hikes.

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  • Article argues veganism should move beyond zoocentrism

    This research indicates that mainstream vegan discourse can reinforce human exceptionalism and exclude parts of the wider biospheric community.

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  • Xitsonga literary texts use varied terms of address

    This research indicates that Xitsonga literary texts use a diverse range of address forms that vary with social relationships, formality, and context.

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  • LLMs favored female-named candidates in résumé comparisons

    This research indicates that multiple LLMs favored female-named candidates over male-named candidates in résumé-based hiring comparisons, with a strong first-listed-candidate bias also appearing in many models.

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  • Review examines BLS employment projection methods

    This research indicates that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projection methodologies can be reviewed across labor force, macroeconomic, industry, and occupational forecasting components.

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  • Household complexity affects wage-based living-standard estimates

    This research indicates that estimates of material standard of living based on men’s wages are less accurate for populations with more complex households, and that adding the female-to-male wage ratio does not change the ranking of those estimates based on male wages.

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  • Model links colonial wars to exclusive trade control

    This research indicates that competition between two metropolises over colonial trade policy can lead to peace with free trade or war with exclusive colonial trade, depending on how each side values colonial trade versus trade with its rival.

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