Sentences with phrase «in women studies»

Along the way, she studied Early Childhood Education and Developmental Psychology en route to a Bachelor's degree in Women Studies and a graduate program in Elementary Education at San Francisco State University.

She has a B.A. in Women Studies and B.A. in Art History from Purchase College and an M.A. in Art History from Hunter College

Chamomile attended Evergreen University in Olympia Washington and then the University of Minnesota Twin Cities graduating with a Bachelor's Degree in Women Studies with a minor in Dance.

«In the women we studied, those reporting symptoms such as restless sleep, waking repeatedly at night, having difficulty falling asleep and waking too early in the morning tended to be older biologically than women of similar chronological age who reported no symptoms,» she said.

The Penn State researchers said they intend to continue studying celiac disease and depression in an effort to determine whether the celiac disease actually causes the depression, along with symptoms of stress and eating disorders (which they also found in the women studied).

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

This sweet, rich oil was shown to do some pretty nifty things for abdominally obese women in a 2009 study out of Brazil, including decreasing their waist circumference, increasing beneficial HDL (high - density lipoprotein) cholesterol and improving the ratio of «bad» LDL (low - density lipoprotein) to «good» HDL cholesterol.

Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

Overall, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, with one 2007 JAMA study detecting the virus in 27 % of the nearly 2,000 women tested between the ages of 14 and 59.

In the study, the researchers gave 66 participants, 20 men and 46 women, an assessment to gauge their baseline mood.

This «Super Slow» form of resistance training was popularized by inventor Ken Hutchins who conducted the «Nautilus Osteoporosis Study» and found the slow - moving controlled exercise approach to be effective in building bone density in elderly women with osteoporosis.

A 2015 study found that women who applied for professorships in STEM areas (excluding economics) were more likely to be hired than similarly qualified male candidates.

There are psychometric studies, says Helgesen, that show that women in organizations tend to be more rewarded for being precise and correct, while men are more rewarded for taking risks.

The shocking part is that we claim that women aren't studying STEM subjects at school and aren't entering tech careers in the U.S. because of discrimination and oppression, but in countries where women don't have a lot of rights (and granted, those rights vary drastically even within Middle Eastern countries), they manage to succeed in STEM in school.

One 2005 study found that those preferences can play out in how often people approach each other online: women who were 6» 3» tall received 40 % fewer messages than women who were a more average 5» 5», while men who were 6» 3» and 6» 4» got about 60 % more messages than men who were 5» 7» or 5» 8».

Women's under - representation on boards and in top management positions has long been the subject of academic study and, more recently, public policy.

Bain study co-author Julie Coffman found that scarce female role models in senior positions and limited support from supervisors eroded aspirations among mid-level women.

A recent study found that there have been at least 250 abortion - related criminal and civil cases against women in the U.S. since 2005.

A 2010 University of Brasilia study found that 1 in 5 Brazilian women under 40 — more than 5 million women overall, or about 22 % of Brazil's population — had had at least one abortion.

A large 2011 study of close to 39,000 older women over 25 years found that women who took them in the long term actually had a higher overall risk of death than those who did not.

Additional research in studies on color perception and color preferences show that when it comes to shades, tints and hues men seem to prefer bold colors while women prefer softer colors.

It happened because a lot of women back then had studied math, and their skills were in demand.

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.

On top of the problem of unfair pay for women, a Harvard study revealed that, when it comes to annual performance reviews, women were 1.4 times more likely to receive critical subjective feedback, not positive feedback or critical objective feedback, and that traits that were considered negative in women were often interpreted as positive in men.

The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

For the study, 22 men and women from Division I golf programs in the Midwest practiced putting in silence and while listening to different genres of music, including classical, country, jazz, and hip - hop / rap.

According to a study conducted by Baloonr, about 35 percent of respondents said the best way to addressing the issue in the startup tech worldis to put more women in leadership roles.

In a 2012 study by Bentley University, 40 percent of 1,000 millennial women and 33 percent of millennial men said they were interested in working from homIn a 2012 study by Bentley University, 40 percent of 1,000 millennial women and 33 percent of millennial men said they were interested in working from homin working from home.

In one study, Kross had men and women undergrads give a speech about why they were qualified for their dream job.

Today, 23 percent of women earn more than their husbands, up from 4 percent who did in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center study released this week.

Indeed, according to another study by Catalyst, only 10.3 % of board seats in this country are held by women.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

The fact that the VC industry is so male — 89 % of partners — doesn't help, Wiedenmiller says, noting a Stanford study saying that in 2013 women entrepreneurs received only 4.2 % of VC funding.

The organization's studies show that the number of women in Canada who hold senior officer positions in the corporate sector increased just 4 % between 2002 and 2010.

The women in the studies who were the most active had a lower risk of developing cancer compared with those who exercised the least.

Although the Institute for Family Studies reports that more husbands than wives admit to being unfaithful, according to The Cut, psychoanalyst and writer Esther Perel cites an increase of 40 % in unfaithful women since 1990, while men's statistics have stayed about the same.

The study's bottom line seems to be that, sure, there is still plenty of sexism when it comes to women's behavior at the negotiating table, but if you're more interested at any given time in getting a good deal than challenging stereotypes, then flirting may be the way to go.

There are no controls for gender in the study, although the sample is representative of the real world, with fewer women on the list.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

Formal reporting is the «least common response» among men and women who have experienced harassment in the workplace — «approximately 30 % of individuals who experienced harassment talked with a supervisor, manager, or union representative,» the EEOC study said...

The average height of men in the study was 5 feet 8 inches; the average height of women was 5 feet 3 inches.

The report studied economies including Africa, Latin America, North America and Asia, and it found that 200 million women have started or run new businesses in 83 economies across the globe.

A study of older women with MCI found a tie between aerobic exercise and an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

It does show that for Pao, as for many of the women in Snyder's study, simply being excellent at the job at hand isn't going to get you very far.

There have been a variety of studies showing that women in leadership roles equates to better company performance, including a report from Credit Suisse that says that companies with more than one woman on their boards have outperformed those with no women on their boards in the stock market.

A study published in March in the journal Neurology suggested that women who were physically fit in middle age were roughly 88 % less likely to develop dementia — defined as a decline in memory severe enough to interfere with daily life — than their peers who were only moderately fit.

Then, let's go one step further and look at how companies who have hired women on their own have fared: in those situations, a 2010 McKinsey & Co. study found that companies actually have better financial performance.

In the past men and women have repelled feminism for different reasons, says U.S. historian Estelle Freedman, who specializes in women's history and feminist studieIn the past men and women have repelled feminism for different reasons, says U.S. historian Estelle Freedman, who specializes in women's history and feminist studiein women's history and feminist studies.

In fact, not only is it possible, it's more common than you think — last year, a study found that women tend to lose interest in sex about a year into a relationshiIn fact, not only is it possible, it's more common than you think — last year, a study found that women tend to lose interest in sex about a year into a relationshiin sex about a year into a relationship.