Sentences with phrase «gender research at»

Green, who collaborated with Greenfield on an earlier review of gender research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that «the most consistent, and, I'd argue, the most important finding in the literature is that it takes longer for women to enter treatment for similar severity of alcohol problems than it does for men.»

Dr JaneMaree Maher of the Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research at Monash University in Australia, offers a very different way of conceptualizing pain and empowerment, one that resonates with the majority of women.

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While she started her research last year, gender bias has long been a topic of debate at Facebook and other Silicon Valley tech giants.

But even this argument is steadily being undercut by research showing that women face unique hurdles at the negotiating table — hurdles that are associated with sexism and gender expectations.

Researchers from Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research Recruitment sat in on tech company recruiting sessions at a top - tier West Coast university; their findings hint at what's keeping women out of tech jobs: «As students entered, women were often setting up refreshments or raffles and doling out the swag in the back; the presenters were often men, and they rarely introduced the recruiters.

The app also provides a link that explains the gender wage gap, which sits at $ 0.80 on the dollar, according to the latest research from the Institute of Women's Policy Rresearch from the Institute of Women's Policy ResearchResearch.

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As of now, 13 percent of companies currently give specific details about the race and gender of directors named in their annual filings, said Belen Gomez, senior director of research at Equilar Inc., which tracks diversity disclosure.

One of the most important findings is that the percentage of young adults with IQs below 90 appears to decrease by two - thirds if they were breastfed, said study author June Machover Reinisch, director emerita of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University.

«The idea that moms can be involved in the heavy lifting of motherhood and be viewed as attractive and sexy is an interesting concept,» said Scott Haltzman, a psychiatrist at Brown University who researches gender differences.

Cailin Crockett is a second - year MPhil in Political Theory at Oxford University and a Graduate Ambassador for Politics in Spires; her research engages with gender, democratic theory and global justice.

Separate research commissioned by a coalition of women and human rights groups revealed today that six in ten young women believed they had personally experienced sexist remarks or behaviour, including being whistled at, touched inappropriately or discriminated against because of gender.

But I think policy makers looking at changing examinations back to almost the way they were pre-1988 ought to do considerable research to ascertain the likely gender impact of such changes.

Research into gender attitudes to subjects was carried out at this time, including the «girls in science» studies at Kings» College London.

Before arriving at Aberdeen, he was a research fellow at the University of Stirling where he worked on a project looking at how Scotland could become more gender equal.

The author group included individuals from a large spread of nationalities and scientific and institutional backgrounds, but consensus was easy to reach, says declaration co-author Charoula Tzanakou, a research fellow at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom who investigates gender balance in academia.

Little, however, is known about the prevalence of concussions among teens in the United States, said Phil Veliz, a researcher at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Gender inequalities facilitate unequal exchanges at the global level of the coffee exchange, as well as the micro levels, Austin explains in her latest paper, «Brewing Unequal Exchanges in Coffee: A Qualitative Investigation into the Consequences Of The Java Trade In Rural Uganda,» published in the Journal of World - Systems Research.

We want to be better at providing research and education, and we believe that gender balance actually does make us better.

Indeed, she said, given that recent research indicates how transgender individuals may be particularly at risk from developing eating problems, this arguably adds credence to the idea that EDs may be bound up with the pressures and difficulties posed by dominant gender norms.

«These data are counter to theory and what was previously assumed about patterns of dating and sexual behavior among U.S. singles,» said Garcia, an evolutionary biologist, research scientist at The Kinsey Institute and assistant professor of gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington.

Curt Rice, a linguist at the University of Tromsø in Norway and the Leader of Norway's Committee on Gender Balance in Research, also welcomes the report but expresses concern about its mild tone; the tone makes it unlikely that the recommendations will be implemented, he writes in an email to Science Careers.

Under FP7, the European Commission also funded a project called «Gender in EU - funded Research,» which provides a practical toolkit for scientists, including ready - made checklists to help researchers make sure that they have asked themselves the right sex - and gender - relevant questions at all stages of planning, research, and disseminGender in EU - funded Research,» which provides a practical toolkit for scientists, including ready - made checklists to help researchers make sure that they have asked themselves the right sex - and gender - relevant questions at all stages of planning, research, and dissemResearch,» which provides a practical toolkit for scientists, including ready - made checklists to help researchers make sure that they have asked themselves the right sex - and gender - relevant questions at all stages of planning, research, and dissemingender - relevant questions at all stages of planning, research, and dissemresearch, and dissemination.

Claartje Vinkenburg, associate professor of organizational behavior at the Amsterdam Center for Career Research at VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands, presented some preliminary results from the study at the Gender Summit here in June.

With funding from the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research and the Culture Division of the City of Vienna, Norbert Siegl spent months studying the «gender - specific differences in frequency and thematic content» of the graffiti in the toilets at the University of Vienna.

Science Careers spoke with Isabelle Vernos, chairwoman of the ERC Scientific Council's Working Group on Gender Balance and research professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, about the funding agency's efforts to bolster the prospects of female applicants.

Alsos is hoping that this will make future research look more at gender in the innovation processes.

Additional research is needed to determine how questions about peak alcohol consumption levels can be valuable in screening for alcohol misuse, as well as in assessing gender - specific risk factors and harms for drinking at extreme levels.

Together with Elisabet Ljunggren at Nordland Research Institute and Ulla Hytti at the University of Turku, Finland, she has examined gender and innovation and its state of the art.

«Marijuana users who reported using new marijuana products or edibles were at greater risk of experiencing an unexpected high, regardless of their age, gender, education, mental health status, or amount of marijuana consumed in the past month,» said Jane Allen, study author and research public health analyst at RTI.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

These were the findings of a large - scale study by a research team at the University of Basel that focused on determining the gender - dependent relationship between emotions, memory performance and brain activity.

In the most inclusive study to date on friendship, Chapman University research looks at gender, age, and sexual orientation differences in the number of friends people rely on for support, to what extent they choose friends of the same gender, and overall life satisfaction.

«Cultural differences in gender norms provide North African French boys less freedom to deviate from traditional gender roles and norms than that experienced by European French boys,» explains Isabelle Regner, professor of psychology at Aix - Marseille Universite and the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), who coauthored the study.

«Race and gender may not affect employer interest in resumes: New research finds little evidence of discrimination at the resume review stage of job application process.»

The hostilities involve institutions (M.I.T. and Harvard versus University of California), gender (Doudna, Charpentier, Zhang), geography (east versus west coast) and what you might call über - institutions (the Broad Institute, which has become an empire of genomic research under Lander's direction, especially after his leading role in the Human Genome Project, versus the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, whose president, Robert Tjian, is based at Berkeley and has co-authored at least one CRISPR paper with Doudna, also an HHMI investigator).

The research group of Computational Intelligence Group (CIG) from the School of Computing at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with a veterinary student from Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and the Department of Ethology from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest have carried out a research on canine behavior showing that gender, age, context and individual recognition can be identified with a high percentage of success through statistical and computational methods of pattern recognition applied to their barking.

This is necessary because recent research at the NCAA levels revealed that women coaches are more likely to perceive gender bias than their male counterparts.

In August 2012 a team of researchers at the Credit Suisse Research Institute issued a report in which they examined 2,360 companies globally from 2005 to 2011, looking for a relationship between gender diversity on corporate management boards and financial performance.

Half of women working in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs report having experienced gender discrimination at work, according to a new Pew Research Center survey examining people's experiences in the workplace and perceptions of fair treatment for women — as well as racial and ethnic minorities — in STEM occupations.

«Traditionally, heavy drinking has been shown to be more prevalent in men, though more recent studies point to a narrowing in the gender gap,» said Megan Bertholomey, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Mary Torregrossa, Ph.D., at the University of Pittsburgh who conducted the research.

Rohlfing made the comments as more than 60 leaders representing various fields of science, academia, federal agencies, and professional scientific societies gathered on 9 Sept. to begin working on a framework to guide scientific organizations on how best to take on sexual and gender - based harassment on campuses, in scientific labs, during field research, and at scientific meetings.

The research showed that women who defied gender norms by being more assertive and dominant at work were more likely to be targeted by their female counterparts, compared to women who exhibited fewer of those traits.

«It treats gender like it's in a vacuum, like there is no baggage that goes along with being a woman or a man,» says Jane Stout, director of diversity research at the Computing Research Association in Washington, D.C. Perhaps women are not being discriminated against when reviewers consider resumes, «but what have women and men had to do differently to get to this specific situation right now [of being considered for a faculty job]research at the Computing Research Association in Washington, D.C. Perhaps women are not being discriminated against when reviewers consider resumes, «but what have women and men had to do differently to get to this specific situation right now [of being considered for a faculty job]Research Association in Washington, D.C. Perhaps women are not being discriminated against when reviewers consider resumes, «but what have women and men had to do differently to get to this specific situation right now [of being considered for a faculty job]?»

«This is evidence that gender doesn't stand by itself; it's baked into all these other processes,» says Brian Keegan, a research associate at the Harvard Business School who was not involved in the study.

Davis - Kean and colleagues Jacquelynne Eccles, also of the University of Michigan, and Miriam Linver of Columbia University presented their findings in a paper titled «Influences of Gender on Academic Achievement» at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence in New Orleans on April 13.

The persistence of these gender differences across rank is consistent with research showing that girls do more housework than boys even at a very young age.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

Treviño and his fellow researchers Luis R. Gomez - Mejia at Arizona State University, David B. Balkin at the University of Colorado and Franklin G. Mixon Jr. at Columbus State University, analyzed appointments to the rank of named professorship by gender via a sample of 511 management faculty at top American research universities with 10 or more years of experience since receiving their Ph.D..

Annet Abenakyo Mulema, social scientist in gender at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), is applying participatory research and gender - sensitive methods to help households and communities assess their situation and develop solutions to pResearch Institute (ILRI), is applying participatory research and gender - sensitive methods to help households and communities assess their situation and develop solutions to presearch and gender - sensitive methods to help households and communities assess their situation and develop solutions to problems.