News tagged with gender roles

Female sex offenders protected by the criminal justice system

Female sex offenders receive lighter sentences for the same crimes than males says a study recently published in Feminist Criminology, a SAGE journal and the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the Americ ...

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created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study: Social media and the Internet allowed young Arab women to play a central role in the Arab Spring

Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in ...

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created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study: Policy language regarding girls education often limiting, not empowering

Education for girls in developing countries has received more attention in recent years. A new study found that the very policy documents advocating the need for equal access to education limit the scope of the initiatives ...

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created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Role of gender in workplace negotiations

A study conducted by Columbia Business School Professor Michael Morris, Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership, and Emily Amanatullah, now an Assistant Professor of Management at McCombs School of Business of the University ...

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created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ga ga for goo goo: Research explores the scientific basis for baby fever

We see it in the movies and on television when a character realizes they desperately want to have a child. Often it is connected with a ticking biological clock. Or we may experience it ourselves when we see baby toys and ...

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created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Do women have what it takes?

So much has changed since 1963, when Betty Friedan's influential "The Feminine Mystique" provoked a national discussion about the deep dissatisfaction women were feeling about the limitations of their lives. Many women came ...

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created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Husband's employment status threatens marriage, but wife's does not, study finds

A new study of employment and divorce suggest that while social pressure discouraging women from working outside the home has weakened, pressure on husbands to be breadwinners largely remains.

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created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Trust a large factor in the emotional process of family business succession

A new study from Family Process shows that passing down a family business is an emotional process, and key factors need to be in place in order for the transition to prove successful. The owner needs to trust other family ...

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created May 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Angelina Jolie vs. Kathy Bates -- who is a valid role model?

Exposure to attractive, aggressive, female leads in films affects how men and women think about who women ought to be in the real world. Women in particular have high standards for other women, and expect them to be both ...

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created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Think manager, think male? Impact of gender in sport administration hiring

The "glass ceiling" for women administrators in college athletics may be cracked, but is not completely broken, according to a new study co-authored by a North Carolina State University researcher.

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created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lack of family-friendly workplaces leading to loss of talent, says expert

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professional women in their 30s are opting out of full-time work at an alarmingly high rate.

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created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Do toddlers pick up gender roles during play?

The differences in mothers' and fathers' interactions with their children, particularly in play situations, may influence toddlers' associations of specific behaviors with male and female genders. According to Eric Lindsey ...

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created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Cat-calls are detrimental to everyone

For every woman who is a direct target of sexism, there are others who witness the event and are also affected. The actions of one sexist man affect how female bystanders feel and behave towards men in general. Stephenie ...

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created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Back to work policies need gender awareness

UK programmes designed to help the unemployed get back to work and support young parents are losing impact because they are not designed with the participants' gender in mind. Men as well as women can lose out as a result ...

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created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

What's eating the breadwinners?

Control, independence, ambition, pressure, worry, guilt and resentment are all experienced by female breadwinners, according to Dr. Rebecca Meisenbach from the University of Missouri in Columbia, USA. Dr. Meisenbach explored ...

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created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0