Women at the Table

In order to correct the real life bias and barriers that prevent women, girls and all people marginalized from achieving full participation and rights in the present & the future we invent, we must ensure that machine learning does not embed already biased systems into our collective futures.

Technology Foresight, Technology Assessment, and AI Through a Gender Lens

Our statement to the UN Commission on Science Technology and Development (CSTD), as Co-Chair of the Gender Advisory Board.

Implementation and follow-up to the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society at the regional and international level

Our statement to the UN Commission on Science Technology and Development (CSTD), as Co-Chair of the Gender Advisory Board.

Gender-Responsive Digital Transformation: Submission for WSIS+20 Review

Women@TheTable Submission to the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD)

Gender-Responsive Technology Foresight and Assessment: A Human Rights-Based Approach for Sustainable Development

Women@TheTable Submission to the Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD)

Statement at the CSW69/Beijing+30 Side-Event: Accelerating Gender Equality in the Digital Age | Leveraging WSIS+20 Milestones and Beyond

As we look toward WSIS+20 milestones and beyond, we must recognize that the Feminist AI approach we’ve pioneered isn’t just about preventing harm – it’s about unleashing innovation. When we bring diverse voices to the table, we don’t just get more fair systems – we get better systems, capable of addressing problems in ways that homogeneous teams simply cannot imagine.

The Gender Data Health Gap: Harnessing AI’s Transformative Power to Bridge the Gender Health Data Divide

The gender data gap is turbocharged by AI.
In the context of continuing and widespread AI adoption in healthcare, we run the serious risk of structurally embedding biases and gaps. Without being aware. Again.

Artificial Intelligence to Advance Gender Equality: Challenges and Opportunities

Interactive Dialogue on the Emerging Issue – CSW68, 22 March 2024

Gender at Heart of the Global Digital Compact

Event hosted by Finland and the Action Coalition for Technology & Innovation for Gender Equality. 

Algorithmic Accountability as Human Right

This is our oral statement to the Global Digital Compactco-facilitators, Rwanda and Sweden,  outlining our vision for algorithmic accountability as a human right.

Global Internet Governance

Our statement at the Global Digital Compact 2023.

We Shape Our Tools, Thereafter our Tools Shape Us

Our foundational paper from 2019  harking back to media critic Marshall McLuhan’s statement that “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” giving a full landscape and set of recommendations on ways to invent a more equitable future with the algorithmic tools we create.

Artificial Intelligence Recruitment: Digital Dream or Dystopia of Bias?

In a Post-COVID world we turn more and more to online recruitment. How does this effect those already left out of the system and the data.  This paper written in collaboration with a team from Skadden,Arps looks at three jurisdictions, UK, EU/ France, and the US to further understand what is already happening and where the law might go.

The Algorithmic Origins of Bias
There has been a great deal of concern regarding the presence of social biases in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, lately. With the increasing adoption of AI technologies in our daily lives, it is not a surprise that chinks have started to show in AI’s armour.
< A+ > Declaration

Written for a Keynote at Women in Data Science Zürich 2019, this Call to Action has become the manifesto for the <A+> Alliance and all of its, and Women at the Table’s work.

Last modified: April 24, 2025

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