Sentences with phrase «studies about gender»

Not exact matches

That view is likely biased — studies have shown interviewers tend to prefer candidates similar to them, judge candidates on fewer criteria than they think they're judging them on, and tend to let biases about matters like race and gender get in the way.

I thought about how the gender gap persists in tech despite declining in other STEM fields, how hard we've been working as an industry to reverse that trend, and how this was yet another discouraging signal to young women who aspire to study computer science.

Truth be told, I feel a bit out of my depth when I speak with «real feminists,» the kind who have actually studied feminist theory, who have read deeply and broadly about issues related to gender equality.

Every gender and cultural studies course should feature at least one class of live public breastfeeding, and a discussion about how our country supports — and undermines — mothers trying to juggle work and family.

Men in low and middle income countries are generally positive about gender equality — but their participation in household and caregiving tasks remains low, and levels of intimate partner violence are still high, according to a study published in the Men and Masculinities journal.

Together, these studies point to the importance of formative research about local gender norms and power structures to inform interventions.

Extending their prior work on gender and family, Biblarz and Judith Stacey of NYU analyzed relevant studies about parenting, including available research on single - mother and single - father households, gay male parents and lesbian parents.

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.

A 2015 Families and Work Institute study of same - sex and different - sex couples indicates that men in same - sex couples have significantly higher satisfaction with the division of household and childcare responsibilities.As these tasks are not able to be divided solely on the basis of traditional gender roles, more conversations occur about how the responsibilities are fulfilled.

Some observers, however, worry that the study does not reproduce real - world hiring and that it may leave an incorrect impression about gender parity in STEM fields.

«These data are counter to theory and what was previously assumed about patterns of dating and sexual behavior among U.S. singles,» said Garcia, an evolutionary biologist, research scientist at The Kinsey Institute and assistant professor of gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington.

20 The young women in the study had 10 such daily thoughts, on average, and both genders thought about food and sleep just as often as sex.

One of the major unanswered questions from this study, however, regards the role gender might play in decisions about moving.

Studying children before and during their experiences of gender mismatch may help untangle this, but would be difficult to do, says Case — not least because these body parts are typically private areas, and children may not be very articulate about their gender identity.

The respondents filled out an online survey asking them about their educational and professional status, gender, age, and experiences during field studies.

To examine this link more closely, Swartzwelder and colleagues studied the sedative effects of alcohol by injecting the equivalent of about 20 drinks of alcohol into adolescent and adult rats of both genders and throughout the females» estrous cycle.

«We've been talking about the problem of the gender gap and pipeline in STEM for a long time,» says study coauthor Nilanjana Dasgupta, an experimental social psychologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Only about 100 of the tens of thousands of genes that make up the human genome are marked with these gender - specific stamps, subsequent studies showed.

«In our study, transgender youth decided to pursue fertility preservation at much lower rates than we would have expected from research on reproductive desires of transgender adults, which suggests that about half want biological children and over a third would have considered preserving their fertility if techniques had been available and offered to them,» said lead author Diane Chen, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with the Gender & Sex Development Program at Lurie Children's and in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«We found that gender absolutely influences attitudes about debt,» said Mary Eschelbach Hansen, a study author and American University economics professor.

A study with 32 transgender children, ages 5 to 12, indicates that the gender identity of these children is deeply held and is not the result of confusion about gender identity or pretense.

During her postdoc at Yale University, Corinne Moss - Racusin was the lead author on a study showing that both male and female science professors evaluate a resume more favorably if they perceive that the applicant is male, reflecting their implicit bias about gender and scientific aptitude.

Gender plays a complicated role in the hiring of computer science tenure - track faculty members, of which on average only about 15 % are women, according to a study presented today at the peer - reviewed International World Wide Web Conference in Montreal, Canada, and posted on the arXiv preprint server in February.

Kristie Drucza, CIMMYT gender and development specialist, has been studying, publishing on, and presenting widely about people - centered, evidence - based approaches for gender equality that are being taken up by agriculture - for - development professionals.

While the exploration of human sexuality is always an area of great interest, this study in particular speaks volumes about the progress we've made in gender equality and reminds us how much there is still to learn about the nature of female pleasure.

However, Delgado is also skeptical about using such a small study to make gender generalizations.

Suppose the FDA told you about the multitude of detailed scientific studies proving the soy estrogenic endocrine disruptor toxicity causation of (irreversible) autism, seizures, mental retardation, allergies, asthma, thymus damage, hypothyroidism, immune deficiency disorders, damage to pancreas, liver, and kidney, diabetes, leukemia, multiple cancers, metastasis, gender chaos and infertility — pain and suffering for a lifetime.

The study, which involved 200,000 people from 53 countries, came to this conclusion by ranking people's personality preferences and then comparing them.1 Participants were asked to think about the gender that most attracted them, then to choose and rank that gender's top three attractive personality traits (from twenty - three given options.)

The study also found a contrary link: older (and more educated) online daters seem to care less about how educated their matches are, and there is a difference along gender lines as well.

About Blog At The Juvenile Instructor, we seek to situate the study of Mormonism within wider frameworks, including American religious history, western history, gender history, and, on occasion, the history of the Republic of South Africa.

I Love Dick, part autobiography, part meta - study of gender, is a love - triangle drama about a dissatisfied film - maker (Kathryn Hahn), her professor husband (Griffin Dunne) and the unnervingly charming Dick (Kevin Bacon), an infamous academic who neither of them can stay away from.

Brazilian writer and director Anna Muylaert delivers this darkly comic character study about a 17 - year - old exploring his gender identity to his family.

Another study, by Carol Dweck and colleagues, found that female college students had a lower sense of belonging in mathematics if they perceived that their college environment encouraged gender stereotypes about mathematics (for example, females are not as good at calculus as males) and the idea that mathematics ability is fixed (Good, Rattan & Dweck, 2012).

Also here PISA suggests that there is much teachers can do about this: Even after accounting for students» performance, gender and socioeconomic status, students who said their teacher adapts the lesson to the class's needs and knowledge were less likely to report feeling anxious when they are well prepared for a test, or to report that they get very tense when they study.

The survey also asked parents about their child's dedication to study, and found some interesting differences in relation to gender.

The new study in Educational Researcher shows test format explains about 25 percent of the variation in state - and district - level gender achievement gaps in the United States.

In the meantime, this group will continue to grow a community talking about gender, race, intersectional feminism, disability studies, social justice, and whatever else floats our collective boats.

In the plenary session, Jennifer Brier, director of gender and women's studies at University of Illinois at Chicago, Nell Taylor, founder of Read / Write Library Chicago, and Luis Herrera, city librarian at San Francisco Public Library (SFPL), joined DPLA board member Sarah Burnes for a conversation about how archives are put together and made useful to the public.

However, the Vancity study, titled «Money Troubled: Inside B.C.'s financial health gender gap,» finds one - third of B.C. women surveyed say they are too busy to think about their cash flow beyond the day - to - day.

About Blog At The Juvenile Instructor, we seek to situate the study of Mormonism within wider frameworks, including American religious history, western history, gender history, and, on occasion, the history of the Republic of South Africa.

About Blog At The Juvenile Instructor, we seek to situate the study of Mormonism within wider frameworks, including American religious history, western history, gender history, and, on occasion, the history of the Republic of South Africa.

I could make other references to scientifically studied differences between men and women but this may not be the place... Of course this is all on a sliding scale so - to - speak... nothing about humans is black and white, including gender differences.

The questions of assumptions about male heroes and female heroines, about the issues of identity politics and gender studies, coinciding with deconstructivist views of art history and more, are tackled in Kass's wide repertoire of silkscreened and painted imagery.

Erin holds a bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from St. Edward's University, in Austin, TX, and a master's degree in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she wrote about intersections of gender, contemporary art, and urban space.

Susan Jarosi, associate professor of women's and gender studies at University of Louisville, also has written an essay about the exhibit's connection to historical references.

Professor of African American Studies and Theater Studies at Yale, Daphne Brooks writes about race, gender, performance and popular music culture.

Then follows «mental health of leftist activists», an extensive section on bias in social psychology and nmore general problems being addressed by the Heterodox Academy effort, the sociology of single - parenting, studies involving race / gender with IQ, personality, intellectual abilities and differences in interest, genetics and human evolution, enforced gender equality, scientific socialism, eugenics and the zero - population - growth movement, misguided environmentalism, and finally, a bit about climate change, rapidly followed by the «food police» and «diet wars», and then returning to a treatment of the Climate Wars.

A new study of transgender youth indicates that the gender identity of these children is deeply held and is not the result of confusion about gender identity or pretense.

Study: Transgender youth aren't confused about their gender identity.

I'd imagine they don't feel that way at all about Gender Studies; probably a lot of them would say to themselves when they hear the latest exciting result, «Who cares what those clowns think?