News tagged with gender roles
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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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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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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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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Sep 26, 2011 |
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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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Aug 23, 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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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.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 20, 2011 |
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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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May 12, 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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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.
Feb 10, 2011 |
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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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Jun 10, 2010 |
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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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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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The evolving manager stereotype: Gender a factor in measuring a team's performance
Although women have made strides in the business world, they still occupy less than two percent of CEO leadership positions in the Fortune 500. Not surprisingly therefore leaders still tend to be thought of as men and most ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Nov 16, 2009 |
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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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