Sentences with phrase «women studying science»

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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.

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

I've culled the studies that are neither useful nor funny - like the one that confirms women pretend to be happy about gifts they don't like while men don't, causing fights - to offer you a quick guide to the science of the season:

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.

The discussion touched on all the usual culprits for the underrepresentation of women in tech industry leadership roles: discrimination in the workplace, the «pipeline problem» of too few girls studying math and science, the difficulty of balancing motherhood with the demands of a startup.

Cards Against Humanity's intellectual expansion «Science Pack» has raised over $ 578,000 for The Science Ambassador Scholarship, a scholarship fund for U.S. - based women interested in studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics Science Pack» has raised over $ 578,000 for The Science Ambassador Scholarship, a scholarship fund for U.S. - based women interested in studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics Science Ambassador Scholarship, a scholarship fund for U.S. - based women interested in studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).

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.

Marjorie Griffin Cohen, who teaches political science and women's studies at Simon Fraser, says that the economic crisis will have serious impacts on women.

In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Nancy Grace Roman became a research astronomer and the first Chief of Astronomy at NASA.

«At least in terms of gender, the women's colleges have neutralized that element of study in science,» she says.

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.

catholicism is hate hate hate... they hate blacks, jews, women, children, truth, science, muslims, hate torture, murder, imprisonment for the innocent,... study the history of this disgusting religion and you have centuries of hate,,,,, not love... hate!

Informed by cutting - edge science and nutrition, along with case studies from men and women who have experienced life - changing transformations in their health after waving goodbye to wheat, Wheat Belly is an illuminating look at what is truly making Americans sick and an action plan to clear our plates of this seemingly benign ingredient.

This bad boy is backed up by science and they aren't afraid to share the stats: Plantscription ™ was tested in a 20 - week consumer study on women ages 42 - 63.

The interesting thing is in real life, there's such demand from women to study forensic science at college now that colleges are desperately adding more and more courses to meet that demand.

Women's studies: Science, technology, and women; gender and health; gender and myth; feminist theory; the cultural roots of violence against wWomen's studies: Science, technology, and women; gender and health; gender and myth; feminist theory; the cultural roots of violence against wwomen; gender and health; gender and myth; feminist theory; the cultural roots of violence against womenwomen.

When it comes to the science behind trying to get pregnant, a recent study shows that women today may not be getting...

From 1988 - 1991, I collected interview data on the self - and body - images of 40 professional women and homebirthers in relation to their beliefs and choices about pregnancy and birth, and published that study in Social Science and Medicine and elsewhere.

• Depression: In a study published in Psychological Science, pregnant women were checked for depression before and after birth.

One study from the Public Library if Science found that the result of frequent waking and short hours of sleep lead to excessive daytime sleepiness in the 33 women they studied over the first 18 weeks postpartum.

Science tells us that a woman's milk - making glands grow and develop during pregnancy, and after birth this milk - making tissue continues to grow (study HERE).

By comparison a bachelor of midwifery is a degree that blends science - based medicine with psuedo - science and anti-science (under that weasel - worded banner of anti-enlightenment casuistry» different ways of knowing»), women's studies, cultural safety and the humanities.

She holds a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and is passionate about pre and postnatal health, continuously studying this field to best serve women and their families in the childbearing years.

Being in the midst of studying for her Bachelor of Nursing Science degree by distance, Nikki realized that online training could open up opportunities to thousands of women.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

Welcome news for women suffering from depression — according to an article in Science Daily, a study of nearly 30,000 women from Nordic countries found no significant risk of increased stillbirth, neonatal death, or postneonatal death for those who took a form of anti-depressants, known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), while pregnant.

This high ranking is due in large part to the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Information Studies at SU that devote themselves to recruiting women for these fields at an early age and helping them feel comfortable in a college setting and a STEM field.

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.

But by age 6 to 7, they're 20 % — 30 % less likely to assume this brilliant individual is a woman, according to a study published today in Science.

WOMEN IN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggWOMEN IN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suSCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suscience - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggwomen, a new study suggests.

The tone of the letter was not affected by the writer's gender, reaffirming that both male and female evaluators have gender biases that disadvantage women when they are pursuing traditionally male - dominated roles, says Molly Carnes, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, who was not involved in the swomen when they are pursuing traditionally male - dominated roles, says Molly Carnes, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and co-director of the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, who was not involved in the sWomen in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute, who was not involved in the study.

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A woman applying for a tenure - track faculty position in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at a U.S. university is twice as likely to be hired as an equally qualified man, if both candidates are highly qualified, according to a new study.

Other activities included a study on handicapped scientists» coping strategies, internship programs for handicapped college students majoring in the sciences, conferences and publications on barriers to post-secondary education for handicapped students, workshops and out of school programs for handicapped students, and a survey of handicapped women scientists.

Although the dearth of women in the mathematical sciences has long been attributed to low self - esteem and underencouragement from teachers and professors, Davis - Kean says the study suggests an earlier influence: parents.

In August, for example, the journal Science printed a study showing that increasingly large numbers of women have been earning doctoral degrees in virtually every scientific discipline for many years but are still not proportionally represented on university faculties.

Psychologist Isis Settles of Michigan State University in East Lansing believes this study and others like it are important because women of color in science are a relatively understudied group compared to white women.

Next Wave reported recently that there is a strong line of thinking that says women in science need to be studied less, but that more action needs to be taken on their behalf (Enough Talk, Let's See Some Action!).

The main problem is not the supply of women into the bottom end of the science pipeline; roughly the same number of women as men enter college intending to study science.

A new government study surveyed top - tier research universities to see how women were faring in the largely male - dominated fields of math and science

said Hockfield, adding that supporting women and underrepresented minorities in science is crucial, because studies have dem - onstrated the importance of different perspectives in finding solutions to problems.

The study, which appears in Biology Letters, builds on previous research published by the same team in the journal Science more than ten years ago, which found that for every son she had, a woman's life would be shortened by an average of 34 weeks.

Women are rare in upper levels of academia, as evidenced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study of the status of women in science and several other studies from Johns Hopkins to BerkWomen are rare in upper levels of academia, as evidenced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study of the status of women in science and several other studies from Johns Hopkins to Berkwomen in science and several other studies from Johns Hopkins to Berkeley.

The study is correlational and can't identify the mechanism underlying this relationship, but one can imagine that it «could be that beliefs about the role of women in science change as more women enter science, that more women enter science when these beliefs change, or a combination.

Deciphering the onset time can impact how the doctor treats the woman's depression, such as intervening earlier with psychiatric help, if needed, said Sheehan Fisher, the study's corresponding author and an instructor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The Palaeogenomics study conducted by the Human Evolutionary Biology group of the Faculty of Science and Technology, led by Concepción de la Rua, in collaboration with researchers in Sweden, the Netherlands and Romania, has made it possible to retrieve the complete sequence of the mitogenome of the Pestera Muierii woman (PM1) using two teeth.

But studies show that many women (and men) worry that asking might be seen as showing a lack of commitment to academic life (Science, 17 December 2004, p. 2031).

It didn't last: When I pursued graduate school in the United States, studying a hybrid of computational sciences and neurosciences, I was the only woman in my international class.

One question these studies bring up is whether women are not putting themselves forward, are not being given the opportunity to ask questions, or some combination of the two, says Anna Kaatz, the director of computational sciences at the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madwomen are not putting themselves forward, are not being given the opportunity to ask questions, or some combination of the two, says Anna Kaatz, the director of computational sciences at the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in MadWomen's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

«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.