Sentences with phrase «than the male equivalent»

Of course, as a black woman and as a mother, interracial dating is accepted more by my female friends and family than the male equivalent.

Unfortunately, it is common for female artists to sell for significantly less than their male equivalents, and Cuban female artists are no exception.

Not exact matches

There are several reasons there's no male equivalent yet: part of the problem has been a lack of support from drug makers, but a more scientific challenge has been the mathematical reality that it's tougher to exterminate the millions of sperm that come out of men's bodies than the monthly egg or two that passes through a woman's reproductive system.

Let's remember that our current crop of women MPs are younger than their male counterparts - after the next election there will no female equivalents of the grand old men of the backbenches (Clarke, Tapsell, Hogg, Young, Winterton, Spicer, Shepherd, etc.) except for Ann Winterton.

In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the voles» physiology — exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.

Male birds tend to be better singers than females — but does the basis for this difference lie in the brain or in the syrinx, the bird equivalent of our larynx?

By the group's calculations, this diversity translates into the equivalent of at most 3500 breeding Neandertal females, or up to 7000 including males, lower than previous rough estimates of about 10,000.

So, this might mean, given that women are still more likely in Australia to work part - time, that our calculations based on full - time equivalent units might produce higher estimates of male participation than if we were to use raw numbers instead.

Male students must be particularly careful, because even with no negative incidents on their record their rates are going to be higher than those of their equivalent female counterparts.

These included age (in years), gender (1 = male, 2 = female), education (1 = less than high school, 2 = high school diploma or equivalent, 3 = some college / vocational education, and 4 = college education or higher), and ethnic background (coded as a dichotomous variable, 1 = White vs. 2 = non-White).