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A new
study found women take more safety precautions with men they first meet online as opposed to in person.
Another study found women prefer penises that were around 6.5 inches long when asked to pick a penis ranging from 4 inches up to 8.5 inches.
One
study found women with PCOS who take vitamin D supplements may have lower fasting blood sugar levels and lower circulating insulin (remember: extra insulin in circulation causes a lot of the insulin resistance symptoms).
The study found the women who had PCOS had the least diverse gut bacteria, women who did not have the condition had the most diverse gut bacteria and women who had polycystic ovaries tended to have more diverse gut bacteria than women with PCOS, but less diversity than women without the condition.
The study found women who were pregnant during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when pollution levels were reduced by the Chinese government, gave birth to children with higher birth weights compared to those who were pregnant before and after the games.
The study found women who were having sons were more likely to develop gestational diabetes than women who were pregnant with daughters.
More recently, a 2015
study found women's patenting increasing but still lagging behind men's.
This study found women with Vitamin D sufficiency at a 40 % lower risk of severe pre-eclampsia.
A 2016
study found women - owned businesses are still 21 percent less likely to win government contracts than similar companies managed by men.
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«Academic
study finds women wearing heavy makeup less likely to be perceived as leaders.»
Given that
studies find women's and men's IPV exposure to differ in certain aspects, it seems important to investigate whether the instruments that have been developed to assess IPV against women by men in heterosexual relationships are as suitable for assessing women's use of violence against men.
Not exact matches
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.
This is not the first
study to
find bias against the work of
women.
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.
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».
Adding more evidence to the pile, a 2013
study found that while short
women and tall men might say they prefer sexually dimorphic pairings, their actual choices for mates didn't necessarily stick to such a strict criteria.
A recent
study by human resource consulting firm Morneau Shepell has
found that, when it comes to counselling services, 63.9 % of participants are
women.
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.
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.
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
findings provide initial evidence that
women's leadership potential is not recognized by potential employers, said Abigail Player, a doctoral researcher who contributed to the
study.
A recent
study by Accenture
found that, for at least half of men and
women, «work - life balance» is the number one determiner of whether or not they have a successful career.
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.
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 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 relationship.
A more recent
study of 243 men and
women between 95 and 100 — 75 % of whom were
women —
found that all of them rated highly on measures of how easy - going and extroverted they were.
Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel reports, the new report «
found clear evidence that academic counselors from the football, men's basketball and
women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent
study classes in order for them to be eligible.»
The
study, conducted by Sameer B. Srivastava, Ph.D. and doctoral student Eliot Sherman at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business,
found that low - performing
women who switched from a male supervisor to a high - performing female supervisor earned substantially less than men who made a similar shift.
In its
study, Unilever
found that 77 percent of men and 55 percent of
women believe that a man is the best choice to lead a high - stakes project.
The author of this
study, Joni Hersch,
finds that after controlling for other factors that determine wages,
women employed in jobs with an average probability of being sexual harassed are paid a compensating differential of 25 cents per hour relative to
women employed in jobs with no risk of sexual harassment.
A
study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and
found that
women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.
The
study's
findings about more than 1,000 Latin American / Hispanic
women ages 25 to 60 revealed that 91 percent of respondents surveyed considered buying a home the best financial investment they could make.
By
studying thousands of bronze - medal fights at international judo competitions, they
found women less prone than men to «psychological momentum.»
After controlling for all other factors, the
study found that commuting has a detrimental psychological effect on
women, but not on men.
According to the
study, «
Women were more likely than men to find their most recent experience with online harassment extremely or very upsetting — 38 % of harassed women said so of their most recent experience, compared with 17 % of harassed men.&r
Women were more likely than men to
find their most recent experience with online harassment extremely or very upsetting — 38 % of harassed
women said so of their most recent experience, compared with 17 % of harassed men.&r
women said so of their most recent experience, compared with 17 % of harassed men.»
Much of the reason that men commute more than
women is historical:
studies have
found that
women have had shorter commuting times than men since the 1980s.
It drives talented employees out of companies (
studies find 75 to 90 % of
women leave an employer after an incident), corrodes morale, and spurs absenteeism and low productivity.
A recent
study from Babson College
found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of
women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.
A British
study found that
women with visible tattoos were perceived as less attractive, heavier drinkers, and more promiscuous than females without any ink — which owes to stereotypes about
women with tattoos.
Another
study, this time of exclusively older
women with MCI,
found that aerobic exercise was tied to an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.
But one recent
study found that attractive
women were more likely to be discriminated against when applying for less - desirable positions.
While
studying bank loans, Robb and Coleman's
findings indicated that the application rates for bank loans were similar for men and
women.
Another
study that looked at more than 100,000 men and
women found that coffee drinkers were 45 % less likely to die from suicide and heavy coffee drinkers (four or more cups a day) 53 % less likely to die from suicide.