Sentences with phrase «women researchers as»

A new analysis from the National Institutes of Health puts in stark relief the widening imbalance between men and women researchers as their careers progress.

Not exact matches

A heap of evidence shows women are assessed differently when it comes to confidence, likability and self - promotion, so the researchers only recruited male study subjects, as they put it, «to control for potentially confounding effects of gender.»

Researchers Christine Exley of Harvard Business School, Muriel Niederle of Stanford University and Lise Vesterlund of the University of Pittsburgh recently did a set of experiments related to female aggression in on - the - job negotiations in which, as they write, «we saw that women hurt themselves financially when they followed a blanket recommendation to always ask for more.»

For instance, extroverted men often present as more ambitious and assertive, whereas extroverted women tend to present as more sociable and gregarious,» the researchers write.

All of that said, the NIH researchers did not go so far as to make a clinical recommendation; after all, 125 women is a small sample size.

A 2015 report from researchers at Kent State University and the University of Texas at Tyler found that the «prevalence of male norms in the male - dominated environment may result in a more hostile workplace for women who are perceived by men as violators of the gender norms.»

But, according to a new study from researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Texas, people who identify as women are less likely to experience regret after casual sex if they are the ones to initiate it.

Retailer Williams - Sonoma, biopharmaceutical company Medivation and bank Wells Fargo ranked as the companies with the most high - ranking positions held by women, researchers said.

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.

Researchers at Pew argue that the recent decrease in birthrate has as much to do with the Great Recession in 2008 as it does with the increase of women who are not willing to sacrifice their careers for family.

Among the women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.

In looking at Kickstarter from it's inception, researchers found that a majority, 55 percent, of Kickstarter investors turn out to be men versus 45 percent women, and it seems the investing proclivity of male investors extend to this medium as well.

One of the studies that I talk about in the book is where social science researchers look at black women who had experienced trauma, and they found these women were more likely to internalize the characteristics of the Strong Black Woman as a way of coping with trauma.

If, as some researchers hold, women tend to be less competitive than men1 then they may more easily find themselves left lower down in the professional climb - the - ladder exercise; and so give way more to dissatisfaction, jealousy, or a victimisation complex.

Annenberg countered that comic content (such as cartoons) is indeed a highly effective form of conveying serious lessons; that when a new person or agent enters a scene a «single» violent episode becomes «multiple»; that a six - week analysis made by the researchers revealed the same general results as the one - week sample; and that the risk ratio validly takes into account the fear that potential victims (such as young women) have when viewing violent television.8.

Researchers included normal - weight and overweight women in the study, noting that weight problems are common with the disorder, known as PCOS, and a source of mental health problems that could affect sexual function.

«As predicted,» the researchers wrote, «we found a stronger mean preference in men (2.66) than in women (2.25) for spicy, hot condiments.»

Researchers have compared such things as increase of heart rate, blood pressure and skin conductance when men and women are confronted with a crying or smiling baby.

But only relatively recently have researchers begun to understand the neuroendocrine and neurobiological changes brought about in human males (as in females) through proximity to infants and pregnant women, and through acts of caretaking.

As a twice - married and twice - divorced woman, I know what the researchers are talking about.

Because ACOG has created its position on home births based on much of the data from Wax's meta analysis, the researchers warn that physicians and women who are considering home births and using this study as a reference for their decisions are not getting reliable information and may not be making a well informed decision.

This time researchers have found a link between soft plastics such as those found in raincoats, rubber duckies, shower curtains and air mattresses * (PVC) and a reduced sex drive in women.

As a result, researchers estimate that a subset of pregnant and lactating women have some degree of outright iodine deficiency, which can put their children at risk of developmental and cognitive problems.

The researchers concluded that, given that more women of childbearing have an overt iodine deficiency as well as borderline iodine deficiency, and given the difficulty of limiting exposure to environmental perchlorate and thiocyanate, lactating women should focus on getting sufficient iodine as a way to protect their developing infants.

Both men and women were found to be equally affected by depression, a finding that actually shocked researchers, as it was inconsistent with previous studies and contradicts the historically held assumption that parenthood affects women more.

In the Changing Childbirth in BC research project, a steering group of women of childbearing age from different cultural and socio - economic backgrounds engaged multiple stakeholders, as well as leaders from NGOs, researchers, and community agencies, to examine women's experiences with maternity care in British Columbia (BC).

In a new study published in Mucosal Immunology, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) report that human breast milk serves as a reservoir for bio-molecules that help to resolve inflammation and combat infection.

Researchers from the the National Sleep Foundation have long pointed to changes in hormones as a main cause of sleep problems in women.

So a team of Dutch researchers decided to test whether low risk women at the onset of labour with planned home birth have a higher rate of rare but severe outcomes (known as severe acute maternal morbidity or SAMM) than those with planned hospital births.

The researchers defined active phase labor arrest as 1 cm or less of labor progress over 2 hours in women who entered labor spontaneously and were at least 4 cm dilated at the time arrest was diagnosed.

There is, however, some controversy here, because when researchers stuck microphones in pregnant women's uteruses for a 1990 study I'm glad I wasn't a part of, they found that fetuses are exposed to between 72 and 88 decibels of baseline noise in the womb — the latter being about as loud as the maximum output of the white - noise machines tested in the study.

The researchers suggest that in the South in particular, this aversion to breastfeeding is partially due to the historical tradition of black women serving as wet nurses for white children.

Researchers observed a similar correlation between fussy eating and maternal depression: Women who experienced more depression before and after birth had children who scored higher on the fussy eating scale as well.

The researchers recommend that «Nulliparous [first baby] women should be made aware of this, as well as potential risks of expectant management during counselling.»

She developed an interest in community development and community health and worked as a researcher and and consultant with many women's groups both in Ireland and in the developing world.

Researchers at Cornell University say that normal - weight women who gain too much while pregnant appear to be much less likely to succeed as breast - feeders.

More recently, researchers have begun to recognize the importance of men's role within pregnancy, childbirth and parenting (Richman, 1982; Lewis, 1986; Draper, 1997; Somers - Smith, 1999) and men's support for breastfeeding has been recognized as important in women's decision to either breast or formula feed their infant (Freed and Fraley, 1993; Jenkins, 1993; Earle, 2000).

«Battling over Birth is a critical and timely resource for understanding black women's birthing experiences in the United States, a country where black women's lives — and the lives they create — are at much greater risk of death and injury than those of non-black women... By distilling the common and diverse threads from over 100 black women, the BWBJ researchers have woven a multi-faceted tapestry that reflects what black women view as important and central to optimal birth experiences.

As part of the study, researchers conducted interviews with mothers of infants from the Athens community, including 12 from the Athens branch of Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, which serves low - income mothers, and nine from Full Bloom Pregnancy and Early Parenting Center, which tends to serve middle income, highly educated mothers, Anderson said.

As a result, researchers have to take into account any factors that might affect a woman's decision to breastfeed.

While there was some variation between the populations that were studied, such as between men and women, people living in different regions, or people with different risk factors, the researchers found that nut consumption was associated with a reduction in disease risk across most of them.

Researchers from the University of Southampton, as part of the EpiGen Global Consortium, analysed the levels of DNA methylation in umbilical cord tissue of babies born in the Southampton Women's Survey.

After adjusting for age, tumor location, and stage, researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute discovered that women diagnosed with malignant melanoma during their pregnancy or within one year of giving birth were 5.1 - times as likely to die, 6.9 - times as likely to experience metastasis, and 9.2 - times more likely to have a recurrence.

For more consistent results, the researchers only recruited women, and the participants completed surveys to see if there were any other factors at work that could affect brain structure, such as depression or level of formal education.

The Lund researchers have already started new studies in which a larger number of women will be monitored from breast cancer diagnosis and onwards, as well as testing ctDNA methods in other cancer types.

It will include non-scientist users and the voices of under - represented groups, such as people in the developing world and women, in order to diversify discussions on the best ways to protect on - the - ground researchers, the volunteers of information, and those threatened by the misuse or careless distribution of geolocated information.

Women still comprise only 34 % of medical school faculty [4], a category that includes clinical instructors as well as medical - faculty researchers.

Researchers show for the first time that healthy older men and women can generate just as many new brain cells as younger people.

To separate the effects of poor sleep from other factors that also contribute to a risk of preterm birth, the researchers used a case - control design: 2,265 women with a sleep disorder diagnosis during pregnancy were matched to controls who did not have such a diagnosis, but had identical maternal risk factors for preterm birth, such as a previous preterm birth, smoking during pregnancy, or hypertension.

Pregnant women who are diagnosed with sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and insomnia appear to be at risk of delivering their babies before reaching full term, according to an analysis of California births by researchers at UC San Francisco.