Sentences with phrase «of gender research»

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.»

Not exact matches

Gender diversity in corporate leadership, a growing body of research suggests, can produce a tangible financial return.

In one, scholars were asked to read and rate research papers; unbeknown to them, the names had been changed to change the gender of the authors, and the scholars rated the papers «written» by men as better than the ones that appeared to be authored by women.

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

Research from Australia also supports quotas as a way to achieve significant results and to seize the benefits of gender diversity in decision making.

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

The research crunches numbers to determine the cost to large companies of having all - male executive boards running the show, and while it's far from the first report to conclude a lack of gender diversity is a terrible idea from a business perspective, this analysis produced one particular attention - grabbing finding.

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.

According to research published last year in Psychology of Women Quarterly, people making hiring decisions — even those who profess to believe in gender equality — overwhelmingly associate qualified female candidates with diminished competence.

«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.

While she started her research last year, gender bias has long been a topic of debate at Facebook and other Silicon Valley tech giants.

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 research found that across industries, 70 percent of job descriptions contained gender - biased words.

One of the most interesting parts of the current research is that the venture capitalist group included both men and women, suggesting that even women may be influenced by negative gender stereotypes.

Research from the US Department of Commerce suggests that gender stereotypes may play a central role in the choice to pursue a career in computer science or other STEM related jobs.

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.

Vibha's post is rooted in her personal experience, but she also notes that psychological research suggests she's far from alone in feeling «helpful» discussions of gender can backfire.

The research analyzed eight years of data out of a single, large professional services firm that included both single gender and mixed gender teams.

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.

But the results of the study, carried out by the non-partisan Public Religion Research Institute, show the impulse to block varies widely based on gender and political leanings.

After nearly two years of research and asking questions, in 2012 Saujani launched Girls Who Code, an organization dedicated to empowering young women and bridging the gender gap.

The app also provides a link that explains the gender wage gap, which sits at $ 0.80 on the dollar, according to the latest research from the Institute of Women's Policy Rresearch from the Institute of Women's Policy ResearchResearch.

Brands Fail to Meet the ANA's Diversity Goals, Too Progress has been strong in CMO gender balance while ethnic diversity continues to face significant shortfalls, according to new research from the Association of National Advertisers and its inaugural CMO scorecard.

Amar is a Post-Graduate Research Fellow with the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and a graduate of the London School of Economic's Gender Institute.

But ahead of the report launch on 24 January 2017, I'd like to share something that I discovered while researching and talking to [business, government and social] leaders around the world about one dimension of inequality: 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.

«We can do in - depth analyses to link gender diversity to all kinds of company attributes, including growth, profitability, corporate spending and accounting quality,» says Jessica Alsford, head of SRI research.

The link between company financial performance and gender diversity is the latest in an emerging body of academic and qualitative research that links well - rounded and inclusive work environments with returns.

«Whereas 80 % of beer companies» consumers are male, cider is gender - neutral, opening up a market in which beer players have struggled,» a 2011 Nomura Equity Research report explained — while also pointing out that a typical case of cider ($ 35) costs more than craft beer ($ 33) or imported beer ($ 29).

As of now, 13 percent of companies currently give specific details about the race and gender of directors named in their annual filings, said Belen Gomez, senior director of research at Equilar Inc., which tracks diversity disclosure.

-- 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?

Mind the Gap 2012 is our second iteration of our annual review of empirical findings of Glass Lewis research on gender diversity in twelve different markets.

In a 2015 poll, LifeWay Research found that 70 percent of evangelicals without gay or lesbian friends believe that «sex between people of the same gender is sinful, regardless of its legality,» while 62 percent of evangelicals with such friends say likewise.

Her book, Unnatural: Spiritual Resiliency in Queer Christian Women, is a compilation of research, interviews, and memoir that explores the experiences of women who have fought to hold on to their faith in spite of obstacles related to gender and sexuality.

Science however tells us a different story, one with facts and data and research that shows that we are born gay and no amount of prayer will change what gender we are attracted to.

Brain research shows the brains of men and women are organized differently, and these gender - related but not always gender - specific differences could be construed as suggesting new stereotypes, another «dichotomy.»

Nussbaum, who has frequently visited India to research how gender relations shape social justice, is particularly concerned about the situation of women in contemporary India.

This book, however, draws attention to important research which began to surface in the late 1980s documenting that children of single - parent households do worse on a variety of measures of child welfare independent of race, gender, educational level and place of residence.

After all, from what I read, there was more research being done and a growing understanding of gender issues.

Let me interject here that the research being done about inter-sex children, those who are born «eunuchs» from their mother's womb, is shedding new light into this whole issue of gender identity and sexual attraction.

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).

To date, only the research of Bruce Lincoln and Carolyn Walker Bynum offers notable contestation of these unproven assertions from the standpoint of gender analysis.

During the past several years, Pew Research has gathered a ton of data on gender and religion in six different faith groups — Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews...

The U.S. dairy industry is committed to using comprehensive research and testing to better understand the needs of consumers — of varying ages, genders and lifestyles — and responding with innovations that satisfy those needs.

This gender gap persists despite research that proves increasing the representation of women will boost profitability and competitiveness.

Then research by Philip and Carolyn Cowan indicated that if both partners wanted the pregnancy — and didn't slide back into traditional gender roles once the baby was born — the initial shock of new parenthood disappeared and their marriage would be back on a happy marital track.

Take all the research and replace every instance of «boy» with «girl» and every instance of «penis» with «vagina» and it becomes blindingly obvious how barbaric the practice of «circumcision» really is, regardless of gender.

Attitude surveys, and more in - depth research, show that when attention turns to policies designed to support men and women in their sharing of breadwinning and childcare roles, this is in line with the aspirations of the vast majority of parents, who do not want to organise their household duties along gender lines.