1. The authors of this paper see no significant gender gap in programming skill. However, employers guess significantly lower programming skill for female applicants (0.12 SD). To add, this perceived skill gap is driven by female employers (!)

  2. Italy has officially banned the slaughter of male chicks to end the culling of up to 40 million young birds by the egg industry each year. This is made possible by sexing technology which identifies the sex of a chick before hatching. It follows two years of campaigning by activists, starting with a petition in 2020. France and Germany have also banned culling and a similar petition in the US has exceeded 50,000 signatures. Link
  3. This thread on the effects of inflation is very interesting. Oil-shock driven inflation is doubly regressive in that it increases costs for the poor, and makes stocks cheaper to accumulate for the rich.

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