Sentences with phrase «as gender studies»

Some believe that the difficulty in getting a job after graduation is due to an enrollment decrease in technical majors like sciences, math and engineering — called STEM — while enrollment in more «soft» majors such as Gender Studies, Fine Arts, Literature, and other humanities are rising.

Not exact matches

In a 2016 study, EY found that two - thirds of Generation Z reported equal pay and promotion — regardless of race or gender — as major parts of whether to trust employers.

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

There's a story in the study's literature that I really appreciate, because it is something that anyone could do as an experiment to see how gender perception works in their own workplace.

I thought about how the gender gap persists in tech despite declining in other STEM fields, how hard we've been working as an industry to reverse that trend, and how this was yet another discouraging signal to young women who aspire to study computer science.

As scholars who study gender and humor have pointed out, women's humor ruffles feathers, with «gender stereotypes» hindering «the development and recognition of women's humor.»

Indeed, studies suggest that both male and female faculty and students at gender - mixed universities can often be unconsciously biased against women in STEM classes; yet, those biases aren't as much a concern at women's colleges.1

One finding from the study's survey was that women felt their advancement was hampered by a number of factors, including informal interactions and mentoring with and by their male colleagues, as well as gender biases by entrepreneurs (who are mostly male) in their perception of investors.

Two parents can be Mom and Dad, Mom and Mom, Dad and Dad... studies prove that children do just as well in same gender homes than they do in hetero homes (the link to the study is listed above in response to another blathering of yours).

Ward and Loughlin are engaged in sophisticated cultural criticism, parody, irony, and a fluid combination of discourses from postmodern philosophy, Christian tradition and gender studies, and both their style and content seem ill at ease with confident programmatic statements and a preference for Augustine / Aquinas as the theological «default setting.»

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.

Negative attitudes toward the idea of women as senior pastors are well documented in Edward C. Lehman, Jr.'s, sociological study Women Clergy: Breaking Through Gender Barriers (Transaction, 1985) The author analyzed detailed responses from 1,720 Presbyterian lay - people and 1,143 Presbyterian clergy concerning a wide range of attitudes toward women in ministry.

The Economic Policy Institute released a new study on the gender wage gap and, as is the way of these things, it's not all good news.

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

At New York University, a Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies is being formed to study women and men as well as homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals» so called «queer studies,» which have experienced a burst of growth in the last fewStudies is being formed to study women and men as well as homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals» so called «queer studies,» which have experienced a burst of growth in the last fewstudies,» which have experienced a burst of growth in the last few years.

Justice and peace, social service, awareness of and care for the environment, volunteer work; or liberal arts, discriminating inquiry, courses in professional ethics, gender studies: these are presented as the contemporary surrogates for faith.

Her comment of Camille as a «tough woman» could not have come at a more interesting time, as I had just stumbled upon a study, «Black Marriage Through the Prism of Gender Race, and Class,» by Kecia R. Johnson, an assistant professor at Florida State University, and Karyn Loscocco, a sociologist at the University of Albany.

Future studies with larger numbers of breastfeeding mothers could allow for paired comparisons before and after an intervention, as well as analysis of the impact of independent variables like gender, year of training, age, or previous breastfeeding experience.

She has a degree in Sociology and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality studies from Wesleyan University and developed her passion for the field while working as a Peace Corps volunteer at a maternity clinic in Benin, West Africa.

One recent study, published in Infant and Child Development, showed that these preferences emerge as early as 9 months of age — before children are developmentally aware that gender differences exist, at around 18 months.

«Gender stereotyping may start as young as three months, study of babies» cries shows.»

It is unfortunate that the reaction to a woman conducting these studies would not hold such merit as readers might just think it is filled with female emotion and gender biases with not enough logic.

The study in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth found that participants who did have chest masculinization surgery did so because of chest - related gender dysphoria and being identified as female because of the way their chest looks.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Some behaviors, such as TV watching and eating school lunches, were linked to obesity among sixth grade boys and girls in a new study, but other risk factors were gender specific.

Breast feeding for less than one month increased the incidence of respiratory syncytial virus infections, 10 as did male gender, room sharing, and mothers with lower level of education, but non-wheezing lower respiratory infections were not related to breast feeding patterns at any time in the first year in the same study.26

Gender is not a new topic in refugee studies, and gender is increasingly used as a word that is not merely interchangeable with «women&rGender is not a new topic in refugee studies, and gender is increasingly used as a word that is not merely interchangeable with «women&rgender is increasingly used as a word that is not merely interchangeable with «women».

The queen who holds an Mphil, BFA, Theatre Arts, Gender Studies, from the University of Ghana, Legon also urged those in the arts fraternity to visit the ministry's website to know the mandate they are working with as well as agencies aligned to the ministry adding the president Mahama needs to be commended for giving the arts its own ministry.

As part of the study, the Department of Labor conducted pay equity hearings in New York City, Syracuse, Long Island and Buffalo to solicit testimony identifying specific causes of the gender wage gap and suggestions on ways in which the wage gap can be closed, either in its entirety, or in particular industries.

For example, in a prominent study with 58,000 volunteers, a Stanford researcher found that a model using Facebook likes (170 likes on average), predicted a whole range of factors, such as your gender, political affiliation, and sexual orientation with impressive accuracy.

«This provides evidence for the hypothesis that gender differences in intergroup conflict can have an evolutionary origin, as only males seem to benefit from displaying heroism,» says Joost Leunissen, a psychologist at the University of Southampton and co-author of the study.

The study, «Electronic Cigarette Use Among College Students: Links to Gender, Race / Ethnicity, Smoking, and Heavy Drinking» found in the Journal of American College Health connects e-cigarette use in colleges to high rates of alcohol consumption and other factors such as: gender, race / ethnicity and traditional cigarGender, Race / Ethnicity, Smoking, and Heavy Drinking» found in the Journal of American College Health connects e-cigarette use in colleges to high rates of alcohol consumption and other factors such as: gender, race / ethnicity and traditional cigargender, race / ethnicity and traditional cigarettes.

His study finds that as the gender gap has narrowed, it has increased the probability that married women work in the labour market.

«The tendency to base classroom observation on the gender and race of the child may explain in part why those children are more frequently identified as misbehaving and hence why there is a racial disparity in discipline,» added Walter S. Gilliam, director of The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy and associate professor of child psychiatry and psychology at the Yale Child Study Center.

Endocannabinoids, natural compounds in the brain that excite the same receptors as marijuana, influence gender - specific behaviors, according to a study published in November in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

To that end, a recent pilot study conducted by Greenfield demonstrated that a woman - centered approach could be as effective as a mixed - gender control group over the course of a 12 - week study.

20 The young women in the study had 10 such daily thoughts, on average, and both genders thought about food and sleep just as often as sex.

The study, which was published earlier this month in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, compared gender inequality across Europe as measured by perceived exposure to «work - related psychosocial hazards.»

A new study finds that gender parity in small group settings helps young women engineers feel more confident as they pursue a challenge.

Lee is hoping to do further work in countries such as South Korea to reveal any differences between ethnic groups, as well as to study more women who drink higher amounts of alcohol, to investigate whether the possible difference between genders holds up for heavier drinkers.

The researchers point out that SCFA levels can naturally vary as a result of age and gender, and their study did not set out to establish any causal links.

«Xenophobia strongly linked to Brexit, regardless of voter age, gender or education: Study shows British citizens who fear immigrants were more likely to have voted to leave the EU, and identifies collective narcissism as a new voting variable.»

«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.

Contrary to the situation in gender studies, where questions such as «do women do science differently?»

Published early online in CANCER, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study found that factors such as gender, education, and insurance status may impact whether patients and their physicians have discussions and take actions to preserve fertility during cancer treatment.

According to a new study by researchers at Concordia University, Colorado State University, Syracuse University, Hofstra University and the University of Toronto, a male gamer who chooses to play as a female character will still display signs of his true gender.

A study published July 6th in the journal Oncotarget reports on a newly discovered category of tRNA fragments as well as shows that all tRNAs are rich sources of very diverse short molecules whose characteristics depend on a person's gender, population, and race and differ according to tissue and disease type.

If we take as the reference the values relating to men in order to compare both genders, as men are faster and have more stamina, we might be led to believe that women «don't give all they've got,» but «we are in no doubt that women do give the maximum; so if this is relativized to the actual values of the population being studied, the results would be different with respect to the physical demands involved in women's soccer,» points out Castellano.

«As gender is performative (e.g., putting on makeup) and relational (e.g., dressing more feminine compared to peers), attention to contexts and settings in which youth express themselves as more masculine or more feminine is needed,» explains Dr. Rofey in a commentary * accompanying the studAs gender is performative (e.g., putting on makeup) and relational (e.g., dressing more feminine compared to peers), attention to contexts and settings in which youth express themselves as more masculine or more feminine is needed,» explains Dr. Rofey in a commentary * accompanying the studas more masculine or more feminine is needed,» explains Dr. Rofey in a commentary * accompanying the study.

«One thing we found is that even when people don't have these external demands on time, such as a job, they still have a very gendered way of doing things,» said lead author Claudia Geist, an assistant professor at the University of Utah with joint appointments in sociology and gender studies.

Studies of the Neolithic residents» teeth likewise reveal no major gender discrepancies in wear patterns, as would occur, for example, if men had more regular access to meat than did women.