Allison McKim

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ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
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Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

As numerous women recounted losing dangerous amounts of blood during miscarriage, our reporters searched for a way to gain a broader understanding of how abortion restrictions have impacted care.

Here's how we conducted our analysis.

By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Here’s a great compilation of bathroom signs and analysis of the gendered ideas behind them: thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...

Alito—author of Dobbs, who promised to leave abortion to the democratic process—suggests that he thinks the Constitution may well forbid states from letting minors get an abortion without parental consent, because parents have a substantive due process right to force their kids to give birth ...

Excluding people from benefits is popular because we like punishing people even when the cost of punishing is much higher than just giving everyone the benefit

Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

She called 911 to report domestic abuse. Then Houston police called ICE on her. The woman’s case is a worst-case scenario, according to advocates worried about the worsening state of domestic violence in the Houston region.

Fine police work

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

The Archaic Sex-Discrimination Case the Supreme Court Is Reviving In Skrmetti, the Court turned to a decades-old decision once thought to be consigned to history.

New from me in The Atlantic - how SCOTUS's decision in Skrmetti is reviving an archaic line of reasoning on sex discrimination, which was used to justify & legitimize sex discrimination: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

She Says She Was Sexually Abused in New York Prisons. Now She's Fighting the State From Her Hospital Bed Sierra Johnson is one of nearly 1,600 women who filed claims under the Adult Survivors Act alleging sexual abuse in state prisons

Gov. Kathy Hochul and NY Attorney General Letitia James are slow-walking the lawsuits of almost 1,600 women who say they were sexually abused in New York prisons.

For Sierra Johnson, that cynical delay means she will almost certainly die before she sees justice.

hellgatenyc.com/sexual-assau...

Congrats! Great article.

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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

“Conscientious objection” in healthcare is a slippery slope. Physicians should adhere to their professional code of ethics not use personal beliefs to decide who deserves care. 1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Opinion | To stop Republicans from killing them, Democrats must look inward.

How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” one advocate said.

Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” an advocate says.

NBC News Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident. Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

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What AEI Gets Wrong about SNAP Work Requirements They cited my research, so let me respond!

New from @chloeneast.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern:
AEI cited her work to make the case for SNAP work requirements. Chloe explains that her and other research show that work requirements reduce SNAP access while doing nothing for employment outcomes.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-aei-g...

Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!

YouTube video by Farm to Taber Why Corn And Soy Are In EVERYTHING

A couple weeks ago I said "Hey, subsidies aren't why the US grows so much corn & soybeans!"

People got mad & demanded an explanation, so pls enjoy. Buckle up bc this is NOT your the standard-issue "we just gotta fix the Farm Bill!!" situation.

(if you want to see the video, youtu.be/NlSRyPcc-so)

Lucky you!

So the GOP budget ends subsidized student loans, raises the endowment tax, and dramatically cuts science funding. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is cutting already awarded research grants, deporting international students and ending visa programs, and assaulting academic freedom.

I don't think any of this actually happens without the last ten years of campus panic and I've yet to see anyone even explore that question seriously.

The audit also found that at least 3 jails used leg irons on pregnant or birthing women – despite being illegal, and extremely inhumane.
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