The Social Science Research Network has launched a Women's &
Gender Studies Research Network with a robust list of topics and subtopics, as well as the customary Professional Announcements and Professional Job Openings.
Not exact matches
It's a
research - supported strategy:
Gender - diverse companies are 15 percent more likely to outperform their peers, according to a McKinsey
study.
I spent a year
studying how girls learn best,
researching gender differences, talking with neuroscientists and observing children's play patterns.
But the results of the
study, carried out by the non-partisan Public Religion
Research Institute, show the impulse to block varies widely based on
gender and political leanings.
Entitled Women Entrepreneurs 2014: Bridging the
Gender Gap in Venture Capital, the
study was conducted by Babson professors leading the Diana Project ™, a program founded in 1996 to
research women - led businesses globally.
As I mentioned elsewhere that the
research from «Meta - Analysis»
studies show that the differences between women is greater than the differences between men and women, suggesting that we may overemphasize
gender differences.
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.
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.
Together, these
studies point to the importance of formative
research about local
gender norms and power structures to inform interventions.
Extending their prior work on
gender and family, Biblarz and Judith Stacey of NYU analyzed relevant
studies about parenting, including available
research on single - mother and single - father households, gay male parents and lesbian parents.
Research into
gender attitudes to subjects was carried out at this time, including the «girls in science»
studies at Kings» College London.
Even a scientist's
gender can compromise
research, according to a Canadian
study published in April.
«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.
Findings from a
study by Stanford University's Clayman Institute for
Gender Research in Palo Alto, California, which surveyed 1222 partnered tenured and tenure - track faculty respondents (910 men and 312 women), indicates why the division of domestic labor matters — especially for women.
Published in
Gender & Society, a journal in
Gender Studies and Sociology field, Reich's
research shows that unvaccinated or under - vaccinated children from higher income backgrounds, with parents who are higher educated, have parents who intentionally choose to refuse or delay vaccinations out of a belief that they are protecting their children.
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.
Despite a considerable volume of
research on the topic of facial recognition, most
studies to date specifically address facial recognition from the perspective of various known biases for race, age, and
gender.
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.
The
study also found that lead effects were more robust in males, which is consistent with previous
research specific to neurodevelopmental conditions and
gender.
«This
study of one social attitude in one domain —
gender stereotypes in chess — does nothing to disprove the reality of discrimination generally, but it does suggest that this one mechanism, stereotype threat, may be more limited in its applicability than one might conclude from reading the experimental literature alone,» Stafford concludes in his
research article.
«This
research by no means blames women for
gender inequality but rather uncovers a novel environmental factor that might contribute to inequality, beyond the well - documented effects of
gender biases and discrimination,» said Stephen Garcia, U-M associate professor of organizational
studies and psychology.
«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.
Hunter said the
study is part of a larger
research project funded by the National Institutes of Health, aiming to investigate underlying risk factors for voice problems and
gender differences in speech.
«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.
«
Studies show that women have a harder time quitting smoking than men, even as quitting has shown greater benefits to women's cardiovascular and respiratory health,» said Sherry McKee, professor of psychiatry and lead researcher of Yale's Specialized Center of
Research focused on
gender and tobacco dependence.
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.
The first long - term
research study of its kind ties masculine
gender expression, or how much an individual conforms to masculine norms, to higher Body Mass Index (BMI) in youth.
So, despite the fact that we have this first descriptive approach, more
research needs to be done by incorporating new variables, by expanding the sample and by adapting the ranges of intensity of the population
studied; while guaranteeing equality, that would enable us to complement the comparison with respect to the demands made on both
genders when playing a football match.
«Movement is less conscious than chat, so it can be an easier «tell» for offline
gender,» says Consalvo, who also holds a Canada
Research Chair in Game
Studies and Design.
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.
«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.
«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.
SILVER SPRING, MD — The first long - term
research study of its kind ties masculine
gender expression, or how much an individual conforms to masculine norms, to higher Body Mass Index (BMI) in youth.
Nineteen healthy subjects without a psychiatric history (age mean / SD: 29/7.8;
gender: 14 male, 5 female)(Table 1) participated in this
study after providing written informed consent as approved by the medical ethics committee for
research in humans (METC) of the University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands.
While past
research has tended to focus only on specific sports or
genders, this
study examined whether the prevalence of symptoms varied between
gender and across nine different sports: baseball / softball, basketball, cheerleading, crew, field hockey, lacrosse, track and field, soccer and tennis.
Jonathan Wai, a Duke University Talent Identification Program
research scientist and co-author of the
study, said a narrowing of
gender gaps makes sense given increased efforts to promote
gender diversity in science and engineering.
Typical
studies focus on group size effect, coloration and patterning effects,
gender, and fish size, or more specifically on the actual behavioral elements in pharmaceutical and environmental
research
Research by the Education Testing Service (ETS), and more recently by Miller & Stassun (2014)[9], demonstrate that GRE scores correlate with demographic characteristics unrelated to potential for graduate
study, such as
gender, race and socioeconomic status.
In a
study published in the Journal of
Research in Personality, researchers found that people could accurately guess a stranger's age,
gender, and income simply by looking at what was on their feet.
He is an assistant professor for
gender studies and a
research scientist at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University.
YAHOO NEWS — Oct 13 — Helen Fisher, an anthropologist and
research professor at Rutgers University's Center for Human Evolutionary
Studies, specializes in love, marriage, and
gender differences.
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Research studies show both
genders seek out partners with good health, which they perceive as sexually attractive.
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Research on
gender norms is most developed in
studies of sexual behaviors.
The site's unpredictable cycles of frenzied activity and long dormancy have to do with his also being an Associate Professor of English and
Gender & Sexuality
Studies at Northwestern, where his
research and teaching mostly concern narrative film in different eras, genres, and countries.
Her background is in screen, media and cultural
studies and her
research examines the representation of
gender, queer and youth identities, digital culture, and new forms of screen media.
Gilligan's groundbreaking
research on
gender and human development, spanning the course of twenty years, opened up a new field of
study and was the inspiration for Fonda's gift.
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