Sentences with phrase «field as the males»

They are now on the same playing field as the males which gives them a need for life insurance to replace their income if a loss of life occurs.

Not exact matches

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

As male - dominated fields such as manufacturing were slashed, women's employment rates looked strong, and the economic downturn earned the nickname «he - cession.&raquAs male - dominated fields such as manufacturing were slashed, women's employment rates looked strong, and the economic downturn earned the nickname «he - cession.&raquas manufacturing were slashed, women's employment rates looked strong, and the economic downturn earned the nickname «he - cession.»

«When women move into male - dominated occupations, however, research suggests that rather than solving the problem, those fields tend to become less respected and lower paid as a result,» Time magazine reports.

Stereotypes of women's behavior can dominate perceptions, and as a woman in a male - dominated, STEM - related field, I've learned how to take a seat at the table and deliver my message so that it's heard and respected.»

It's for the same reason that they're not controlling as much crucial real estate in the fields of sports, medicine, finance and law as their male counterparts.

The digital initiative also familiarizes the girls with computers, a big plus in an age where high - paying fields such as computer science and engineering remain stubbornly male - dominated.

Her accomplishments are notable as well for happening in a notoriously male - dominated field.

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

I felt isolated both personally and intellectually: as a mother at home with young children I was in a different world from my male peers, and I was conscious that my first book had alienated many colleagues in the field of religion and literature (I had called much of the current enterprise into question).

«We are excited to partner with DSR driver, Leah Pritchett, who recently closed out her impressive 2017 season with four NHRA event titles,» stated Chris Hall, Chief Operating Officer of Talking Rain Beverage Co. «At Sparkling Ice, we were immediately inspired by Leah's career, especially as a woman making waves in such a male dominated field.

The STEM fields, in particular, are notorious for being male - centric — to begin to address the imbalance between the genders in work environments, we as a society need to focus first on encouraging girls to take these subjects while in the educational system, in hopes that they will continue on and start forging a career out of them.

«So I wanted to take the time to draw some parallels between what I see as women in a rather male dominated field and how we have to break down these barriers, empower each other, because the voices of women are so desperately needed in equal numbers, whether it is in business, academia or in politics and so sometimes it's an internal barrier and if you break through that then we will deal with societal barriers, but right now, you have to at least say I've got something to offer,» Hochul noted.

After accounting for factors such as productivity and field, the women patented at 40 % the rate of «equivalent male scientists,» the study states.

Women in nontraditional fields are especially prone to experiencing a continuum of harassing behaviors, from behaviors likely to be seen as harmless by male colleagues, like mild flirtation and sexual jokes, to more obvious acts like inappropriate touching and repeated requests for dates or other favors.

Both genders, however, agreed that «STEM careers afford communion significantly less than» fields the researchers term «non-STEM male - stereotypic» (MST), such as law or medicine, which have a history of being dominated by men.

More recent explanations have emphasized social and personal obstacles, such as discrimination and isolation, that women face when they enter or try to advance in male - dominated fields.

«Clinicians may not be aware that some of their male patients are so preoccupied with their weight and shape that they are using unhealthy methods to achieve the physique they desire, and parents are not aware that they should be as concerned about eating disorders and an excessive focus on weight and shape in their sons as in their daughters,» says Field.

To better understand how symptoms of eating disorders might be linked to obesity, drug use and depression in males, Field and her colleagues reviewed responses to questionnaires completed as part of the Growing Up Today Study.

«Male professors were described more often as «brilliant» and «genius» than female professors in every single field we studied — about two to three times more often,» said University of Illinois graduate student Daniel Storage, who led the study with U. of I. psychology professor Andrei Cimpian.

Is a man without a four - year college degree better off trying to land a well - paying but insecure job in traditionally male fields such as manufacturing or construction, or should he consider lower - paying but steadier employment in a female - dominated field?

A recent study by Joan Y. Chiao, then at Northwestern University, a founder of the new field of cultural neuroscience, found that voters perceive male candidates as more competent and dominant than female ones, based on facial features alone.

Due to the cultural stereotypes that portray «brilliance» as a male trait, messages that tie success in a particular field, job opportunity, or college major to this trait undermine women's interest in it, shows a new study appearing in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

However, as photographic field guides go, Birds of Australia has one great advantage: a surprisingly high percentage of the male and female of Australia's 750 or so species share a single plumage.

This study is distinctive because the researchers found dramatic differences in the percentage of female sexual and asexual snails (using males» presence as a proxy) and parasite prevalence between sites as close as two football fields apart, «suggesting that these evolutionary links between sex and parasites can operate at a remarkably small scale,» Neiman says.

And with over 3,000 continuing education hours in the fields of Integrative and Functional Medicine, Dr. Menolascino has experience in areas as diverse as advanced cardiovascular therapies, medical nutritional therapy, male and female hormone bioidentical therapy, detoxification, and cancer prevention.

In a field that is thought of as being predominantly male, have you encountered any related obstacles in advancing your career?

I feel that I have to fight twice as hard as my male counterparts to gain credibility in this field.

Although by now, I take this with a grain of salt, there is the constant feeling that you need to prove yourself in this male - dominated field, and earn the same respect as your male colleagues.

It's funny, but I always thought of myself as a pants person before I started this blog but I think that was just a function of working in male - dominated fields (consulting) and really cold climates (looking at -LSB-...]

Gay sugar daddy and gay sugar baby kind of become a thing these years, as app developers shouldn't ignore that the needs of quality group of people, but it seems there are no many apps in this niche dating field which target male sugar daddy and male sugar baby and provide them a community to meet and date each other to arrange them a sugar dating.

There are very few male vets coming into the field now and vets don't tend to mingle too much as our hospitals are small.

The constant droning of sad classical music over 70 % of the film is highly manipulative.The lead actress is toiling hard in the fields, yet at all times wears lipstick, foundation, rough and mascara.Even some of the males wear lipstick throughout.Everybody is drop dead gorgeous, no mud or gore in sight.The whole film is suffused with too much romantic zeal and sentiment.The two lead actors are excellent, but as usual Tom Sturridge is poor.He fails to convince he could ever be the dashing colonial soldier with his thin, weedy style of acting.One star

Continuing with the formula they've established of taking typically male - dominated genres (raunch comedy, buddy action movie) and inserting a dominance of women into the primary characters, this one sees McCarthy take on the role of Susan Cooper, a well - trained CIA agent who has spent her time in the agency as the desk - bound partner in the earpiece of well - groomed field agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law).

In a World... (R for profanity and sexual references) Lake Bell wrote, directed and stars in this dysfunctional family comedy as an aspiring voiceover artist attempting to follow in the footsteps of her movie trailer legend father (Fred Melamed), despite the fact that the field is dominated by stentorian - throated males.

In a terrific performance that recalls the steely ferocity of Jodie Foster in «The Silence of the Lambs» and Jessica Chastain in «Zero Dark Thirty,» Emily Blunt stars here as Kate Macer, an FBI field agent who has been forced to don a Teflon exterior in order to rise through the Bureau's male - dominated ranks, and to cope with the depravity she frequently witnesses in the line of duty.

Will the motion picture academy, as it has done in 85 out of 89 years, field an all - male field of film directors?

Male nudity, as a source of both comedy and drama, is somehow simultaneously the last taboo — Westworld, for one, is now very publicly trying to level a long - uneven gender playing field in that regard — and almost literally the oldest trick in the book.

As we celebrate the election of our country's first black president, I can't help but ponder how very few black males are being prepared to successfully complete a college education and assume leadership roles in the fields of business, industry, government, family, and community.

This issue hits really close to home for me as a young female working in a field (data) that is traditionally dominated by males.

There need to be more male role models for children in early years education, the school leaders» union NAHT says, as only 3 % of teachers in this field are men.

Shaw says it was while working as a teaching assistant for a black male professor at the University of Cincinnati that he was inspired to focus on the field of education and adolescent development, eventually earning his master's degree from Johns Hopkins University.

That's not surprising, as Digital's specialty is yaoi (male - male romances) and as Sasahara observed on some field trips to bookstores, both genres appeal to the same demographic, women of a certain age.

This would be like a dog trainer claiming to the world they can train any dog to do anything so long as it is kept in a fenced yard, and the dog's temperament is as a couch potato, food loving, mild mannered, field dog bred, neutered, male, adult Labrador Retriever.

Only by having the dog evaluated many times can you truly get a feeling your dog is breeding material — this goes for males and females (what a dog show does as well as other competitions such a Schutzhund — I highly regard a dog who has achieved a SchIII — field trials, lure coursing, etc.).

My love of animals prompted me to consider veterinary medicine as a career, but college counselors discouraged me from pursuing this path, which at the time was an extremely male dominated field.

Videogame development is usually seen as a male dominated field; even playing videogames is often wrongly viewed as a pastime for men only.

According to museum materials, Barbara Hepworth's retrospective will emphasize her «overlooked prominence in the international art world» and an Agnes Martin exhibition will «cover the full breadth of Martin's practice, reasserting her position as a key figure in the traditionally male - dominated fields of 1950s and 1960s abstraction.»

«There has been increasing interest in the position of female artists of the past, and the fact that Carol Rama combined issues of sexuality and abstraction in what was and to a large extent remains a male - dominated cultural field has to be acknowledged as being of great significance to cultural production today,» she says.

Drawing from the male - dominated field of Land Art infused with her political sensibility and recurring references to her Latin American heritage, her experiments in film and video are celebrated for their prescient and piecing take on such relevant issues as campus sexual assault, environmentalism, and the challenges of preserving identity in a homogenizing society.