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Jul 26 2018 | Stanford News
Sociology doctoral candidates Devon Magliozzi and Priya Fielding-Singh, and PhD alumna Swethaa Ballakrishnen's research covered in the Stanford News.
Avoiding backlash, feeling authentic and balancing work with family responsibilities are reasons women shared with Stanford researchers about why...
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May 31 2018 | Stanford Graduate School of Business
The problem isn’t just the pipeline. Companies struggle to attract women through bad recruiting practices.
New research suggests that how technology companies recruit candidates during on-campus information sessions might play a role in dissuading women from the jobs.
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May 31 2018 | Washington Post
White Americans are increasingly critical of the country’s social safety net, a new study suggests, thanks in part to a rising tide of racial resentment.
The study, conducted by researchers at two California universities and published Wednesday in the journal Social Forces, finds that opposition...
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May 30 2018 | Stanford News
Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years ago, Stanford researchers find
Genetic data suggest there was a collapse in male, but not female, genetic diversity starting 7,000 years ago. The reason may be wars between clans structured around male ancestry.
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May 23 2018 | Stanford News
A generous donation from VMware supports research and greater collaboration between Stanford researchers and business leaders as the answer to long-term, sustainable progress.
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May 13 2018 | NPR
Fact-Checking What John Kelly Said About Immigration
Tomas Jimenez, a sociology professor at Stanford, tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro that recent arrivals assimilate just as fast as previous generations.
Continue reading NPR's interview with Tomás Jiménez
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May 9 2018 | Urban Institute
ICE worksite raids are back. Here’s what we know about them.
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a large-scale worksite raid at a meat processing plant in Bean Station, Tennessee, arresting 97 immigrants and grabbing national headlines. This action represents one of the...
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May 2 2018 | Stanford News
Karen Cook, the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology, Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS), and Vice-Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Stanford, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States.
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Apr 25 2018 | ABA Journal
Underreporting makes notario fraud difficult to fight
If you need to understand a problem in order to solve it, lawyers who fight immigration legal-services fraud are in trouble. Accurate data is impossible to get, they say, because it’s extremely underreported.
One potential solution: making...
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