News tagged with gender differences
Study examines why people choose same-sex schools
In the last decade, same sex schools and classes have increased dramatically across the United States. Many studies have examined the differences in the education students receive in a same sex school versus co-ed institutions. ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Decisions are taken more democratically with a higher percentage of women in management positions
In workplaces with a high percentage of women in a management position more individualized employee feedback is carried out, more democratic decisions are adopted and more interpersonal channels of communications ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Study: Working moms multitask more and have worse time doing so than dads
Not only are working mothers multitasking more frequently than working fathers, but their multitasking experience is more negative as well, according to a new study in the December issue of the American Sociological Review.
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Dec 01, 2011 |
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Sex segregation in schools detrimental to equality
Students who attend sex-segregated schools are not necessarily better educated than students who attend coeducational schools, but they are more likely to accept gender stereotypes, according to a team of psychologists.
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Sep 22, 2011 |
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Brawn and speed make the grade during mate selection
Do more efficient and faster male birds win females over? New research from the United Kingdom suggests that the rock ptarmigan, the Arctic cousin of the grouse, does. University of Manchester researchers ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Women drivers involved more than men in certain kinds of crashes
(PhysOrg.com) -- While men and women often disagree about which gender has better driving skills, a new study by the University of Michigan may shed some light on the debate.
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Jun 10, 2011 |
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The blame game in work-family conflict
When the demands of work and family conflict, is the job blamed, is the family role blamed or is blame placed on both? And what are the consequences?
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Jun 02, 2011 |
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High-caffeine-consuming boys get greater rush from caffeine than girls
Among the many differences between girls and boys, add the effects from caffeine -- physiological, behavioral and subjective -- to the list.
Feb 18, 2011 |
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Peripheral artery disease harder on women
Small calf muscles may be a feminine trait, but for women with peripheral artery disease (PAD) they're a major disadvantage. Researchers at Northwestern Medicine point to the smaller calf muscles of women as a gender difference ...
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Feb 04, 2011 |
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The Oscar curse? Study says that Oscar win for best actress increases the risk of divorce
Will Academy Award nominees Nicole Kidman and Annette Bening be at higher risk for a divorce if they win the Oscar for best actress next month? A long line of best actress winners including Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Halle ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 28, 2011 |
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Women less interested than men in jobs where individual competition determines wages
Men are more likely than women to seek jobs in which competition with coworkers affects pay rates, a preference that might help explain persistent pay differences between men and women, a study at the University of Chicago ...
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Jan 13, 2011 |
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Research examines gender gaps in immigrant health
A key focus of the health care debate has involved immigrants and their impact on the U.S. health care system.
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Does sex matter? It may when evaluating mental status
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that differs between the sexes in terms of age at onset, symptomatology, response to medication, and structural brain abnormalities. Now, a new study from the University of Montreal shows ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Being faced with gender stereotypes makes women less likely to take financial risks
Last year Nicholas Kristof declared in his New York Times column what banks need to fix their problems: Not just a bailout, but also "women, women, and women." Women are generally thought to be less willing to take risks ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Wake up, Mom -- study shows gender differences in sleep interruptions
Working mothers are two-and-a-half times as likely as working fathers to interrupt their sleep to take care of others.
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Nov 16, 2010 |
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Gender differences
A gender difference is a distinction of biological and/or physiological characteristics typically associated with either males or females of a species in general. In the study of humans, socio-political issues arise in classifying whether a sex difference results from the biology of gender. This article focuses on quantitative differences which are based on a gradient and involve different averages. For example, men are taller than women on average, but an individual woman may be taller than an individual man.
Other articles describe differences which clearly (if intersexual individuals are excluded) represent a binary male/female split, such as human reproduction.
Though some sex differences are controversial, they are not to be confused with sexist stereotypes.
For more information about Gender differences, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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