Sexual harassment continues to be a problem in Canadian workplaces, and organizations are not doing enough to address it. A 2022 report by the Canadian Labour Congress indicates nearly one in two workers have experienced ...
Economics & Business
Oct 27, 2023
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Humans are arguably the most adaptable species on Earth. The species' enormous capacity to adapt and live in different environments is thanks to cumulative culture, the transmission and continuous improvement of knowledge ...
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2023
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After a few months in a different country, you may pick up a new phrase or favorite dish, but can studying abroad change how you participate in society? A recent study published in the Journal of Moral Education found that ...
Education
Jan 6, 2023
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It is no secret: Gender norms—those deeply rooted societal notions of how boys and girls/men and women should behave—have been changing for some time now. These shifts pushed beyond the gender binary, a construct that ...
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2022
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Workplace culture and masculine norms are keeping fathers from asking for flexible working hours, including paid parental leave, according to research from University of South Australia researcher, Dr. Ashlee Borgkvist.
Economics & Business
Nov 5, 2021
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Have you noticed more cats riding in strollers lately? Or bumper stickers that read, "I love my granddogs"? You're not imagining it. More people are investing serious time, money and attention in their pets.
Evolution
Oct 28, 2021
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Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, HEC Montréal, and University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that performs a meta-analysis of extant research on social ...
Social Sciences
Aug 6, 2021
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Working mothers are often expected to work like they don't have children and raise children as if they don't work. This impossible standard is at the root of gender inequalities in the workplace, according to two new Washington ...
Social Sciences
Jul 21, 2021
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In cultures that place a high value on conventional gender norms, particularly those that prize men as the breadwinners in a family, their unemployment plays an outsized role in whether a romantic relationship ultimately ...
Social Sciences
Jun 11, 2021
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"Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both." This sentence, the opening statement of the EAT-Lancet Report published last ...
Other
Aug 31, 2020
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