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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Breaking into Binaries: Exploring AI’s Constructions of Women and Feminist Perspectives on AI Interaction

Publication Date
2024-April-28
Authors
Muldowney, Priya
Department or Program
Computer Science
Women, Feminist and Queer Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

Gender biases entrenched within artificial intelligence (AI) models have the potential to build upon and worsen the conceptualizations of women and reinforce misogynistic power structures. This happens through the biased datasets that are used to train AI, the feminization and...

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Role of bank branch locations in minority lending

Publication Date
1998-March-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Chang, Angela E.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

Past studies on discrimination in home mortgage lending have focused on the loan approval process, yet results show that most of the variation in minority lending across banks is due to the variation in the volume of minority applications and...

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Women on the Front of Change: Personal Histories from Japanese Female College Students from 1960 to the Current Day

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Olivia Hayashi Groves
Department or Program
Asian Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

This thesis will use narratives from five female alumnae of Japanese high schools and university to construct a more complete understanding of how education reform actually affects women in high school and university. After the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (EEOL)...

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