(PhysOrg.com) -- A Michigan State University study finds that girls spend less time playing digital games than boys because they have less leisure time, a finding that could have long-term implications on the technology gender ...
Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2009
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Significantly more women than men move out when their partners pass away. This, according to a University of Copenhagen study that investigates the settlement patterns of Danish widows and widowers. According to the researcher, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 17, 2023
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A pair of researchers, one with the Paris School of Economics, the other with CNRS, UMR8545, Paris-Jourdan Sciences-Economiques, has found a possible reason for the gender gap in math fields—girls have an advantage in reading. ...
Boys perform better than girls in tests made up of multiple-choice questions.
Education
May 31, 2021
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Most Americans say they want a more equal society, yet policies aimed at increasing equality for disadvantaged groups in higher education, corporations, government, and elsewhere continue to generate backlash.
Social Sciences
May 6, 2022
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Workplace gender bias is being kept alive by people who think it's no longer an issue, new research suggests.
Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2020
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Women's relative lack of participation in science, technology, engineering and math is well documented, but why women are more represented in some STEM areas than others is less clear.
Social Sciences
Oct 13, 2016
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In a new synthesis of past work, researchers found that women consistently score lower than men on common assessments of conceptual understanding of physics. However, when examining the factors that may account for these ...
General Physics
Nov 1, 2013
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Children as young as age 6 develop ideas that girls are less interested than boys in computer science and engineering—stereotypes that can extend into the late teens and contribute to a gender gap in STEM college courses ...
Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2021
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It isn't that women don't want to work long hours or can't compete in highly selective fields, and it isn't that they are less analytical than men, researchers report in a study of gender gaps in academia. It appears instead ...
Social Sciences
Jan 15, 2015
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