News tagged with gender roles
Girls game less because they have less free time, study
(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 ...
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Jul 24, 2009 |
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Rethinking sexism: Study examines how society maintains the status quo
There is a tendency to think that only men treat women in a sexist way, but a new study by a University of Miami researcher and his daughter shows that both men and women participate in maintaining a gender hierarchy in our ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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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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Jun 20, 2011 |
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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 ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 31, 2011 |
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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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Jul 13, 2011 |
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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 ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2009 |
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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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Feb 03, 2010 |
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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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Jul 05, 2010 |
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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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23 hours ago |
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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 ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 18, 2010 |
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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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May 22, 2012 |
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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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Apr 16, 2012 |
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