'Benevolent sexism' in startups widens the gender gap by advantaging men over women
Women continue to face barriers in entrepreneurship, with only 17 percent of small and medium-sized businesses being owned by women in Canada.
Women continue to face barriers in entrepreneurship, with only 17 percent of small and medium-sized businesses being owned by women in Canada.
Social Sciences
Feb 19, 2024
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Mobile dating apps are a popular way to meet people. They promise a fun partner and a happy love life. However, a new study by Radboud University researchers shows that people who use dating apps actually tend to be overall ...
Social Sciences
Feb 15, 2024
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Women working in organizations are frequently encouraged to cultivate connections to high-status individuals based on a prominent social network theory. But new research conducted in China and the United States suggests that ...
Social Sciences
Feb 15, 2024
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Conflict and drought in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia has triggered a humanitarian crisis. The Ethiopian government says 16 million people across the country are facing food shortages, with almost half of those suffering ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 14, 2024
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You might've heard the stereotype that feminists are just angry women who need to find a man who can satisfy them sexually. It is an old trope that has been with us since at least the 1970s.
Social Sciences
Feb 13, 2024
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Nearly half of teenagers are worried about having children and many lack knowledge about their reproductive health, find two new studies by University College London researchers.
Education
Feb 12, 2024
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In 2018, as a graduate student, Assistant Professor Misha Inniss-Thompson worked alongside four Black girls and colleagues at Vanderbilt University to co-found the Black Girl Magic Crew, an afterschool program for Black adolescent ...
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2024
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Ahead of International Day of Women and Girls in Science this Sunday, 11 February, The University of Warwick is shining the spotlight on a physicist who is developing new technology to advance the diagnosis and screening ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 9, 2024
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When Lyndsay Conrad dove into her archival research on early 20th-century ski history in Alberta, she found women were missing in the standard narratives, yet leap out in old University of Alberta yearbooks from the 1930s.
Social Sciences
Feb 9, 2024
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Women from around the world gathered in northwest Portugal this week to practice a traditional technique of deliberately burning land to prevent the kind of wildfires—intensified by climate change—that have killed hundreds ...
Environment
Feb 9, 2024
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