Sentences with phrase «women studies department»

Try to promote an idea which gives any credence to «men and women are biologically different» through a university women studies department and you will find what bias looks like.

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And a Labor Department study points out an earnings anomaly: while self - employed men earn as much as or more than similar workers paid a wage or a salary, self - employed women earn substantially less than their wage and salary counterparts.

Recently, the Mount Holyoke College women's - studies department reported that it will not longer stage an annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, having felt its feminism outflanked by the exclusion of «women» who lack the body part so prominently put forward by the play.

This conclusion, along with «men are more likely than women to seek unusual and new foods,» results from a study done in 1988 by Drs. Thomas R. Alley and W. Jeffrey Burroughs of the Department of Psychology, Clemson University, and published in the Journal of General Psychology in 1991.

The Department of Psychiatry would like to invite sportsmen and women to take part in an online questionnaire study which will ask you to answer questions about your exercise, eating habits and your general mood.

Studies by the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that low - income women who participated in the program had fewer premature births and fewer low birth weight babies.

Not long ago, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Wuerzburg conducted a five - year study that compared the pregnancy outcomes of older women with their younger counterparts.

Funding / Support: The Infant Feeding Practices Study II was funded by the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Women's Health, National Institutes of Health, and Maternal and Child Health Bureau in the US Department of Health and Human Services.

The study from Trinity's Department of Public Health and Primary Care, which included over 17,500 women from the UK Millennium Cohort Study and 10,500 women from the «Growing Up in Ireland» study fstudy from Trinity's Department of Public Health and Primary Care, which included over 17,500 women from the UK Millennium Cohort Study and 10,500 women from the «Growing Up in Ireland» study fStudy and 10,500 women from the «Growing Up in Ireland» study fstudy found:

The pamphlets, part of the Cornell Farmers» Wives Reading Courses (later called the Cornell Study Clubs), contained study questions that women were to fill out and send back to the Home Economics DepartStudy Clubs), contained study questions that women were to fill out and send back to the Home Economics Departstudy questions that women were to fill out and send back to the Home Economics Department.

The aim of the study was to examine the uptake of this service (i.e. reasons for and number of calls to the help - line and to other hospital departments from control and intervention women).

«While the wage gap is smaller in New York state compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.»

Program sponsors include UUP Oneonta, SUNY Oneonta Department of Secondary Education and Educational Technology, Hartwick College Education Department, Oneonta Area for Public Education, Gilbertsville - Mount Upton Teachers Association, UUP Cobleskill, Tri-County Women's Coalition, SUNY Oneonta History Department, Sidney Teacher Association, SUNY Oneonta Political Science Department, SUNY Oneonta Department of Africana & Latino Studies, Sherburne - Earlville Teachers Association, SUNY Oneonta Sociology Department, Sidney Teachers Association, Cobleskill - Richmondville Teachers» Association, Norwich Educators Organization, Morris Teachers Association, and Bainbridge - Guilford Teachers Association.

«While the wage gap is smaller in NYS compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.

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For women approaching menopause and suffering from migraine there is help, explains Jelena Pavlovic, MD, PhD, co-author of the study, attending physician in neurology, Montefiore and assistant professor of The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Einstein.

Incorporating new ideas from women can improve safety in traditionally male fire departments, but the hypermasculine culture in some can make female firefighters feel unwelcome and less likely to share their ideas, according to a new qualitative study from Drexel University.

«Estimating from various studies that looked at increasing BMI and endometrial cancer risk, a woman with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 40 would have approximately eight times greater risk of endometrial cancer than someone with a BMI of 25,» said first author Kristy Ward, MD, the senior gynecologic oncology fellow in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

«Women going through menopause have an increased tendency to store fat in their livers,» said the study's lead author Colette Miller, a post-doctoral research associate in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences» department of foods and human nutrition.

We also examined more health outcomes than previous studies and were able to thoroughly check women's medical records,» says the lead author Dr. Abbey B. Berenson of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health at University of Texas Medical Brwomen's medical records,» says the lead author Dr. Abbey B. Berenson of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women's Health at University of Texas Medical BrWomen's Health at University of Texas Medical Branch.

For the latest study, Olufemi Oladapo, a medical officer in the department of reproductive health and research at the World Health Organization, and colleagues gathered data on more than 5,500 laboring women admitted to 13 hospitals in Nigeria and Uganda.

Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10

«We wanted to evaluate whether the absence of female faculty members in physics departments is an appropriate measure of women's progress in physics,» said Susan White, research manager in the Statistical Research Center (SRC) at AIP, who conducted the study with Rachel Ivie, associate director of the SRC.

«It is too early to make specific recommendations to clinicians in terms of care for pregnant women with PCOS, though increased awareness of this relationship might facilitate earlier detection of ASD in children whose mothers have been diagnosed with PCOS,» says Renee Gardner, senior investigator on the study, also at the Department of Public Health Sciences.

«Surface water samples collected on the disposal facility site and immediately downstream exhibited considerably greater EDC activity than surface water samples collected immediately upstream and in a nearby reference stream» said Susan C. Nagel, director of the study and an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health in the School of Medicine, and an adjunct associate professor of biological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science.

In order to investigate this, 30 women taking part in an eight - month long - term study conducted by the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at MedUni Vienna used an oxytocin nasal spray immediately before intercourse.

For project leader Michaela Bayerle - Eder, doctor of internal medicine and sexual medicine at MedUni Vienna (currently working in the Endocrinology Division of the University Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology), this proves just how important communication with one's partner is to sexual satisfaction: «Clearly the fact that the women thought more about their sexuality and spoke with their partners about sex during the course of the study in itself brought about measurable improvements.»

«The fact that the present study found that Oxytocin may improvement compassion among patients with post-traumatic stress disorder toward women provides new evidence that oxytocin may be able to improve the social behavior of these patients,» said Professor Simone Shamay - Tsoory from the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa, who led the study.

She and Mack T. Ruffin IV, M.D., MPH, professor emeritus and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, studied excessive drinking behavior in women from rural Appalachian Ohio because of a surprising lack of empirical data.

The new UTMB study by Dr. Ramkumar Menon, assistant professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology, in collaboration with Winthrop University Hospital and the Kaiser Permenante Southern California Medical Group, found that pregnant women with higher levels of flame - retardant chemicals in their bodies, namely polybrominated diphenyl ethers, were more likely to deliver their babies early than women with lower levels.

«When husbands have greater marital power, fertility pressure from the husband increases the likelihood that women intend to have a second child, despite the fact that they have achieved their desired fertility,» said Yue Qian, the study's lead author and an assistant professor in the department of sociology.

For the Muscle Tendon Tissue Unit Repair and Reinforcement Reconstructive Surgery Research Study, which was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, 11 men and two women who had lost at least 25 percent of leg or arm muscle volume and function first underwent a customized regimen of physical therapy for four to 16 weeks.

The university created a full professorship for her in women's studies, but without tenure, because women's studies is a program, not a department.

A 2012 study by Tony Antoniou, a pharmacist and research scholar in the Department of Family Medicine at St. Michael's found that many heterosexual men feel existing HIV - related programs and services don't meet their needs and are geared primarily or exclusively toward gay men and heterosexual women who are living with the virus.

An index below one indicates that there are fewer women than individuals with mustaches, and the authors found that «[t] he overall moustache index of all academic medical departments studied was 0.72.»

«This study, on one hand, brings to the forefront gaps in women's knowledge about their reproductive health, and on the other, highlights women's concerns that are often not discussed with health providers,» said senior author Jessica Illuzzi, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine.

Plenty of moustaches but not enough women: cross sectional study of medical leaders finds that «[m] oustachioed individuals significantly outnumber women as leaders of medical departments in the US.»

«There currently are no existing therapies to address the prognoses of the approximately 40 percent of patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction,» said Eldrin Lewis, MD, advanced heart failure specialist, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, study co-author.

At Vassar, where she studied sunspots, Jupiter, and Saturn, she mentored several women who became astronomers and who helped make the astronomy department there among the best in the country.

«The findings indicate women with PCOS tend to have less diverse populations of gut bacteria, a trend which appears to be linked to elevated testosterone levels,» said Varykina Thackray, PhD, senior author of the study and associate professor in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

«These findings could lead physicians to advise women to avoid high pollution areas or use air filtration systems during the early stages of pregnancy,» says senior study author Judith Zelikoff, PhD, a professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine.

«We wanted women and their physicians to have this information,» said Dr. Monique Bethel, a research resident in the MCG Department of Medicine and study co-author.

According to Eva S. Schernhammer, MD, DrPH, currently Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Epidemiologist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, this study «is one of the largest prospective cohort studies worldwide with a high proportion of rotating night shift workers and long follow - up time.

The studies, led by a team of researchers from Drexel University and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH), are the first to describe the HIV care continuum postpartum and the first to use population - based data to evaluate viral suppression rates of HIV - infected pregnant women at delivery.

The researchers from the Department of Sociology based their findings on the time diaries of men and women from 16 developed countries from 1961 to the present, collected as the Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS).

«Given the substantial reduction in maternal mortality and the increase in the number of older women over the last 10 years, health systems in low - and middle - income countries must adjust accordingly, otherwise this trend will continue to increase,» said Dr John Beard, director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Ageing and Life Course and one of the authors of the study.

The results suggest that supplementing and maintaining adequate levels of vitamin D in postmenopausal women can reduce the risk of disease,» said Eliana Aguiar Petri Nahas, a professor in FMB - UNESP's Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics and one of the authors of the study.

«Drinking alcohol has a number of effects on your body that can impact your skin,» says board - certified dermatologist and study author Abrar A. Qureshi, MD, MPH, FAAD, chair of the department of dermatology at Brown University in Providence, R.I. «While alcohol has been linked to a variety of skin disorders, including psoriasis and acne, our research suggests that it's also associated with the development of rosacea in women.»

«This large population - based study in women with ICP found increased risks of later hepatobiliary cancer and immune - mediated diseases and a small increased risk of later cardiovascular disease,» explained principal investigator Hanns - Ulrich Marschall, MD, of Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Professor Phillip Bennett, lead author of the study from the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial, said: «Although the cervical stitch procedure still holds benefits for women overall, our results suggest the thicker thread may encourage the growth of potentially dangerous bacteria in the cervix.