http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A scientist's gender can have a big impact on how other researchers perceive his or her work, according to a new study. http://phys.org/news284211433.html Other Sciences Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:37:20 EST news284211433 Researchers in the UK have used artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze 2.5 million articles from 498 different English-language online news outlets over ten months. http://phys.org/news273152983.html Technology Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:49:52 EST news273152983 Women scientists in primatology are poorly represented at symposia organized by men, but receive equal representation when symposia organizers are women or mixed groups, according to research published November 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Lynne Isbell and colleagues from the University of California, Davis. http://phys.org/news272739683.html Other Sciences Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:01:44 EST news272739683 Gender bias and sexual harassment against female journalists are still systemic problems in Australian newsrooms, according to new research. http://phys.org/news268990208.html Other Sciences Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:30:14 EST news268990208 (Phys.org)—When professor and astrophysicist Priya Natarajan read the recent Yale study on gender bias in academic research among scientists, she was surprised­—but not completely. http://phys.org/news268651824.html Other Sciences Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:30:31 EST news268651824 (Phys.org)—A study published in PNAS shows that science faculty members, both men and women, need to bring up their poor grades in gender bias. The study. "Science Faculty's Subtle Gender Biases Favor Male Students," reveals people with hiring power in academic corridors of the sciences may have notions about men versus women that have negative repercussions on academia's stated goals of recruiting more women in the sciences. Corinne A. Moss-Racusina, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L. Brescoll, Mark J. Grahama, and Jo Handelsman, study authors, represent cross disciplines from departments of cellular and development biology, psychology, management, and psychiatry, at Yale University. http://phys.org/news267447244.html Other Sciences Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:54:20 EST news267447244 Fewer women than men are asked to write in the leading scientific journals. That is established by two researchers from Lund University in Sweden, who criticise the gender bias. http://phys.org/news265546254.html Other Sciences Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:51:17 EST news265546254 Do some high school teachers think math is harder for girls than boys? The authors of a new study say yes. http://phys.org/news251653166.html Other Sciences Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:39:35 EST news251653166 A Queen's University study has found that when people think about having children, men want boys and women want girls. http://phys.org/news243514971.html Other Sciences Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:20:01 EST news243514971 While some might argue that the lack of women in physics is down to personal choice or perhaps even biological determinism, Amy Bug, a physicist at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA instead claims it could be due to small, unconscious biases in the evaluation of female physicists that can add up to have a significant impact on their careers. http://phys.org/news200071193.html Other Sciences Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:50:22 EST news200071193 The World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report states, "No country in the world has yet managed to eliminate the gender gap." In the U.S., the Bureau of Labor Statistics cites women working 41 to 44 hours per week earn 84.6% of what men working similar hours earn; women working more than 60 hours per week earn only 78.3% of what men in the same time category earn. The disparity between men and women in the workplace is the subject of a recent study by Elisabeth Kelan, Ph.D., from King's College London. http://phys.org/news174220586.html Other Sciences Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:00:04 EST news174220586 Parents who value strenuous team sports are more likely to influence their children to join a team or at least participate in some kind of exercise, and spend less time in front of the TV or computer, a new study says. http://phys.org/news166081560.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:46:46 EST news166081560