Power to the princess: Study shows speedy way to reduce gender stereotypes
Children's animated movies often enforce gender stereotypes, but they also hold the power to quickly shift them, a University of Otago study has shown.
Children's animated movies often enforce gender stereotypes, but they also hold the power to quickly shift them, a University of Otago study has shown.
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2022
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Unconscious bias and gender stereotypes are preventing teachers from intervening when they see LGBTQIA+ students being bullied, researchers from the University of South Australia say.
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2022
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New research from ESMT Berlin finds that men are more likely to leverage co-location and face-to-face interactions to build high-status connections. Women, by contrast, are more effective at connecting with high-status colleagues ...
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2022
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Make-believe doesn't usually have a place in laboratory settings, but research just published in Psychological Science suggests that girls may persist longer in science activities when they pretend to be successful female ...
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2022
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New research shows parents are largely not to blame for economic inequality between men and women in Aotearoa New Zealand. Other factors in society, outside parents' control, are contributing more to ongoing harmful economic ...
Social Sciences
Sep 16, 2022
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Gender bias against women in entrepreneurial finance is turned on its head in the context of reward-based crowdfunding, according to new research published in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Specifically, female crowdfunding ...
Economics & Business
Aug 8, 2022
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Women feel more frustrated than men by the gendered expectations placed on them at work, even when those expectations appear to signal women's virtues and are seen as important for workplace advancement, according to new ...
Social Sciences
May 27, 2022
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When asked to estimate their own intelligence, most people will say they are above average, even though this is a statistical improbability. This is a normal, healthy cognitive bias and extends to any socially desirable trait ...
Social Sciences
Mar 15, 2022
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One factor that influences the use of the labels "soft science" or "hard science" is gender bias, according to recent research my colleagues and I conducted.
Social Sciences
Jan 24, 2022
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It's not always women who lose out when looking for a job. Men experience disadvantages in hiring processes for female dominated occupations in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. The reverse is not the ...
Social Sciences
Nov 4, 2021
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