For women and men alike, life expectancy has stagnated for the last several years, primarily due to increases in drug poisoning deaths and in the suicide rate. The male-female life expectancy gap, which favors females, fell from 7.6 years in 1970 to 4.8 years in 2010, a reduction of more than one-third. Read the full report.
Despite common beliefs to the contrary, male students do not consistently outperform female students in mathematics. It’s only in high school that the male advantage in mathematics surfaces. What’s going on? Read the full report.
The traditional gender binary just doesn’t work. When respondents of a national survey were asked about their femininity and masculinity, 7 percent considered themselves equally feminine and masculine, and another 4 percent responded in ways that did not “match” their sex at birth (i.e., females who saw themselves as more masculine than feminine, or males who saw themselves as more feminine than masculine). Read the full report.
CPI research group leaders Matthew Desmond and Tomás Jiménez discussed race, inequality, and housing in a Facebook Live interview. Desmond recently won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.
Mauricio Lim Miller, CEO, Family Independence Initiative
Summit on Technology and Opportunity Nov. 29-30, 2016 Hosted by the White House, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
Christina Lewis Halpern, Founder & Executive Director, All Star Code Kofi Adu, All Star Code
Summit on Technology and Opportunity Nov. 29-30, 2016 Hosted by the White House, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
Todd Park, Former U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Current Advisor for Technology, The White House; Ryan Burke, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, The White House; Raquel Romano, U.S. Digital Service; Aden Van Noppen, Senior Policy Advisor, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Clarence Wardell, U.S. Digital Service
Panelists: Emmett Carson, President, Silicon Valley Community Foundation; Daniel Lurie, CEO & Founder, Tipping Point Community; Larry Kramer, President, Hewlett Foundation; Meg Garlinghouse, Head of LinkedIn for Good
Summit on Technology and Opportunity Nov. 29-30, 2016 Hosted by the White House, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
Greta Hansen, Chief Assistant County Counsel, County of Santa Clara; Alice Yu, Palantir Technologies; Michelle Barnaby, Abode Services
Summit on Technology and Opportunity Nov. 29-30, 2016 Hosted by the White House, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
Dave Wilkinson, Director, White House Office of Social Innovation Fraser Nelson, Director of Data and Innovation, Salt Lake County Moderator: Roy L. Austin, Jr., Deputy Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs,Justice and Opportunity, The White House
