Sentences with phrase «for gender research»

KILDEN - Information Centre for Gender Research in Norway.

HERC's work has been recognized by the American Council on Education, the American Association of University Professors, the American Psychological Association, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research and National Public Media's «Marketplace».

KILDEN - Information Centre for Gender Research in Norway.

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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.

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.

With the help of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, said Irving on Fortune's Unfiltered podcast this week, the company has been working to ensure that internal documents related to processes for hiring, promotion, and reviews in particular aren't alienating any employees.

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In 2009, she received an honorary doctorate from Bates College for her work through the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a nonprofit research organization focused on analyzing gender representation in the media indGender in Media, a nonprofit research organization focused on analyzing gender representation in the media indgender representation in the media industry.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

And many of the companies without policies said they choose to make appointments based on merit, not gender — despite mounting research that demonstrates a strong business case for more women on boards.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune contributor Heidi Hartmann, an economist, MacArthur Fellow, and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, who reports that the gender pay gap hit a record low last year.

The purpose of the policy is to eliminate gender inequality in pay, Pao said, citing research that shows bargaining makes for an uneven playing field.

Canada has some world - class think tanks and research on gender violence, such as the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Cresearch on gender violence, such as the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & CResearch & Education on Violence Against Women & Children.

As the open data set for the startup community, we added gender to Crunchbase in March 2015 to further the research on leadership, founders and gender.

Credit Suisse's latest report fits into a wide body of research that finds that increasing gender diversity in leadership is a big bonus for the bottom line.

«The benefits of gender equality are multiple, including increased labor supply; higher incomes, productivity gains, and corporate bottom lines; and reduced poverty in developing countries,» says Carmen Nuzzo, senior economist for SRI research.

For example, Morgan Stanley Equity Research found that more gender diverse companies offer similar returns with lower volatility.

-- Fenwick: Gender Diversity Survey 2013 Maier flipped the research on its head by posing the question: «Why do we have to say «having 20 % of women on boards shows a positive result for companies instead of «having 80 % of men on boards shows a negative result for companies?

This is true of developmental as well as cross-cultural psychology, in that the basic research strategy is to search for the influence of broad classes of experience (e.g., culture, SES, age, gender) that influence broad classes of individual outcome (e.g., IQ, personality, cognitive level).

«Apprenticeships not «just for the boys»: research on the gender gap in careers advice (March 2014) by City and Guilds.

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.

In surveying the research on gender and parenthood for our book, Palkovitz observes that fathers tend to be firmer with their children, compared to mothers.

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.

The implication from her words is that for the audience of US military personnel, the female gender of some of the perpetrators of sexual violence is the most vital revelation of the research.

By Claire McGing, John and Pat Hume and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences scholar, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth Under planned new legislation, political parties will have to implement a gender quota for future general election... Continue reading →

Shannon — who previously served as the deputy director of education and research for the New York State Association of School Business Officials — is exploring ways to create more mentorship opportunities for girls, transgender and gender non-conforming students.

That statistic and other gender gap issues were explored Wednesday when the Rockland Business Association Women's Forum hosted a special presentation by National Council for Research on Women Chairwoman Lucie Lapovsky.

WHEREAS, research shows that women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that qualified female candidates who are equally or more qualified than men are often seen as less qualified or less viable than male candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of women & children; and

(Rice is also chair of Norway's Committee for Gender Balance in Research.)

Many thanks also to Elizabeth Pollitzer, director of Portia / genSET and organizer of the Gender Summits, for her help in researching this article.

According to Hayhoe and Norgaard, women who have been targeted for their climate change research, more than 90 percent of the harassing emails they receive are from men and often include gender - specific abuse.

Research has revealed that gender biases limit the opportunities for women within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

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.

New research identifies age, gender, personality and how often people drive as potential risk factors for becoming distracted while driving.

Yet, «it must be remembered that the growth rate for women is on a smaller base than that for men so that if it is merely sustained and not radically increased, it will still take a long time to significantly improve the gender balance in research.»

Dr Holmes» previous research with people who had received treatment for an ED showed that even when a patient specifically asks to talk about questions of gender, their request may be ignored — either because such issues are seen as a low priority, or because health professionals have little training in this sphere.

While some research suggests that men are more likely to use problem - focused coping strategies and women emotion - focused strategies, when education and career are accounted for gender differences in coping style disappear.

In the early 2000s, for example, the European Commission pledged to engender research and gave its scientific officers guidelines on how to include gender concerns in E.U. - funded projects.

The Enwise Expert Group also calls for ongoing European support to upgrade gender equality and research infrastructures and to better disseminate information about EU events and funding.

Beyond boosting their chances of getting a job, publication, or grant, including sex - and - gender concerns may provide a decisive advantage for early - career scientists by prompting more in - depth, interesting, and socially relevant research questions.

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.»

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.

Center for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators and Human Sciences Research Council, March 2014 (South Africa workforce); Women in Science, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (gender); Leading the Way: Increasing the Diversity of the Science Workforce: Project Two: Exploring the Impact of Socio - Economic Background on Careers in Science, by TBR.

The Irish Research Council (IRC), for example, now requires researchers to address sex and gender in their work.

Improved living conditions and less gender - restricted educational opportunities reduce the cognitive disparities between men and women or improve the gap in favor of women, according to new research by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Karolinska Institutet.

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.

There are gender gaps on a number of science - related topics, including animal research, food safety, energy and space issues, even after controlling for political leanings and other factors.

But the hope is that this research could bring into sharper focus the reasons for the deep gender divide in the incidence of disabling ills that plague millions, says Harvard's Jill Goldstein, and that understanding could lead to more effective treatments and better methods of prevention.