People are less morally outraged when gender discrimination occurs because of an algorithm rather than direct human involvement, according to new research. People are less morally outraged when gender ...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is the nation’s chief civil rights enforcer for housing, charged with protecting the most vulnerable against housing discrimination. But a new proposed ...

On Nov. 20, Mary Louis, a Black woman, was awarded a whopping $2.2 million settlement in her lawsuit against SafeRent Solutions, a third-party service that provides resident screening and applicant ...

Algorithms are everywhere. You rely on them every day to make countless important decisions. You hit the search button in Google, and the search engine filters through millions of webpages to find ...

New “first of its kind” legislation that would ban discrimination based on algorithm bias was introduced in D.C. on Thursday. Attorney General for the District Karl Racine said that the Stop ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to add language to a federal rule to make it clear that physicians could be held accountable for decisions made while relying on clinical ...

As businesses have embraced remote work, more and more jobs have become accessible to people who worked from home out of necessity well before the pandemic. For people with disabilities—many of whom ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gus Alexiou is a London-based reporter covering disability inclusion. The use of software algorithms to assist in organizational ...

Are algorithms a threat to justice? Will they increase discrimination on the basis of race and sex? Many people think so. According to a recent survey, nearly three in five Americans believe ...

In June 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) went into effect. The federal law requires employers to give pregnant employees reasonable accommodations, such as getting appropriately sized ...

Algorithms are sets of step-by-step instructions that tell a computer what to do. Algorithms can also be designed to learn by themselves instead of only following instructions. For example, pretend ...