Sentences with phrase «for gender studies»

This is a purposely secondhand response to the masculine mythos of creativity: these are not original caricatures (or caricatures of originality), nor is the artist staking out a new territory for gender studies; instead it's the processes of characterisation and the staging of critique that are in fact under inspection.
He is an assistant professor for gender studies and a research scientist at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University.
Katherine, good topic for a gender studies class.

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«Beginning in the 1980s... study after study started showing that those who were more socially isolated were much more likely to die during a given period than their socially connected neighbors, even after you corrected for age, gender, and lifestyle choices like exercising and eating right.
Companies are becoming increasingly more committed to gender diversity once studies began exposing the uncomfortable truth: «Women remain underrepresented at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for thirty years and counting,» states the report.
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 are no controls for gender in the study, although the sample is representative of the real world, with fewer women on the list.
Of the companies surveyed for the study, fewer than 35 percent were striving for set targets on gender breakdown of hiring and promotions.
But she stresses that study groups show that investors have an affinity for advisers of a similar gender or ethnic background — those «who «get them» and share common experiences,» she says.
A joint 2016 study by McKinsey & Company and Lean In found that, while both genders ask for feedback equally, women are 20 percent less likely to receive difficult feedback.
The gender gap in wages has widened by a penny in Maryland over the past two years, with women in the state typically paid 84 cents for every dollar paid to men, according to a study released Monday.
CHICAGO (Reuters)- Women are under - represented among mutual fund managers, a new study found, in a gender imbalance that poses challenges for an industry looking to run more money from female clients.
For example, business professors Cristian Deszö of the University of Maryland and David Ross of Columbia University studied the effect of gender diversity on the top firms in Standard & Poor's Composite 1500 list, a group designed to reflect the overall U.S. equity market.
Beginning in the 1980s, Schwartz says, study after study started showing that those who were more socially isolated were much more likely to die during a given period than their socially connected neighbors, even after you corrected for age, gender, and lifestyle choices like exercising and eating right.
«Millennials are the first generation that isn't afraid to fight for equality in the workplace and this study confirms that they are starting to close the gender pay gap that has existed in the American society for decades.
One proposal was for a report detailing policies and goals to reduce any gender pay gap at Alphabet; another was for Alphabet to study the societal impact of hate speech and fake news enabled by Google's platforms.
Following the announcement of a parliamentary committee to study electoral reform with a special emphasis on gender equity and inclusiveness, a growing number of supporters have come on board the campaign for proportional representation.
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.»
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World (http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/gender.html).
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.
Also, there have been tons of studies done on ho mo $ exu ality — if it was a choice there would be precursors to that choice leading someone to want to be attracted to the same gender or leading them to actually having attraction for the same gender — yet not one study has ever found any precursor or cause.
Also, there have been tons of studies done on ho mo $ e xuality — if it was a choice there would be precursors to that choice leading someone to want to be attracted to the same gender or leading them to actually having attraction for the same gender — yet not one study has ever found any precursor or cause.
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.
Just weeks after Jennifer Lawrence made headlines for speaking out against the gender pay gap in Hollywood, a new study confirms that Hollywood has a big problem when it comes to gender inequality.
More recent studies indicate when one spouse drinks more than the other, the couple is more likely to divorce — especially if the heavy drinker is the wife (because it goes against — ugh — «proper gender roles for women.»
Despite that, the study authors — who suggest polyamory may provide more benefits for women, including sexual satisfaction, agency and gender role flexibility — illustrate why many women still opt for monogamy:
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.
In other words, Granju would have us believe that that a women with decades of scholarship in the area of gender studies, a woman with impeccable feminist credentials, has engaged in one of the leading issues in contemporary mothering and contemporary feminism for no better reason than to promote increase her income.
More recent studies indicate when one spouse drinks more than the other, the couple is more likely to divorce — especially if the heavy drinker is the wife (it goes against «proper gender roles for women» evidently.
She was formerly a professor of family and human development at Arizona State University, where she developed and evaluated social - emotional learning curricula for early childhood classrooms and instructed courses in early intervention, child development, and gender studies.
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.
There are even differences in sleep for each gender, with Dr. Lampl's study finding that «boys experienced longer sleep bouts, and growing girls had more sleep bouts.»
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.
This outcome is consistent with other studies using adult learning principles and gender - specific group facilitators to increase the positive parenting experience for both mothers and fathers (Diemer, 1997).
There are very few gender - specific groups for fathers currently in any public maternity hospital in Western Australia and this study demonstrates their perceived importance to new fathers.
This paper nevertheless adds to the findings of other studies and supports the use of adult learning strategies and gender - specific options for antenatal education programs.
Studying Drama and Gender Studies at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky prepared her for a versatile career.
One study in Dublin found an old wives - tale that appears to be true for gender.
According to Bill McKibben, author of Maybe One: An Environmental and Personal Argument for Single - Child Families, studies show that only children tend to do better in school, especially in science, math, and literature; have more friends; and be more flexible about gender roles than kids in larger families.
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
Commenting on the latest report by Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The findings of this Report on the gender pay gap are disturbing, yet sadly unsurprising.
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.
New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
The proposal also calls for a politically independent task force to show those departments how to conduct those gender analysis studies.
Participants study gender roles, leadership theories and practices, how to advocate for socially responsible policies, write policy, public speaking, networking and how to read a budget.
Courses she is best known for include gender and women's studies, sexuality and psychology.
Attended the University of San Francisco, 2003 - 05; B.A. from Smith College, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, 2007.
Last weekend saw broadsheets mocking the Tories for using Pretty Little Head, which delivers an «understanding of women» based on the «scientific study of gender difference and the culmination of our personal experience».
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