Engineering gender gap. Presenteeism. Maximillian Forte.

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• Wired (UK) and Gadgette report on a new study of the gender gap in the field of engineering. The statistical study, led by doctoral candidate Gita Ghiasi, describes a trend where female engineers get less attention than their male counterparts despite publishing in more prestigious journals. 
• The Detroit News and Richmond Times-Dispatch join the coverage of a study of the workplace phenomenon of presenteeism, conducted by management professor Gary Johns and University of East Anglia academic Mariella Miraglia.
• Info Wars and Lankaweb join the media that have published a piece pertaining in part to the Libyan Civil War. It includes a footnote referencing the book Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (2012, Baraka Books), by Maximillian Forte, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

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