The life of a Bangladeshi garment factory worker is not an easy one. But new research from the University of Washington indicates that access to such factory jobs can improve the lives of young Bangladeshi women—motivating ...
Economics & Business
Feb 18, 2015
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Stereotypes can be a powerful force in discouraging girls from pursuing careers in computer science.
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2015
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Parents with the most traditional beliefs about masculinity and femininity are likelier to view pay-to-play sports fees as too high for daughters compared with sons, a new study from the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology ...
Social Sciences
Feb 4, 2015
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Considerable attention has been paid to how boys' educational achievements in science and math compare to girls' accomplishments in those areas, often leading to the assumption that boys outperform girls in these areas. Now, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2015
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While research generally agrees that boys are more likely to be disengaged with school than girls, there is far less agreement as to why.
Social Sciences
Jan 14, 2015
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(Phys.org)—Teenage boys are perhaps more known for playing computer games but girls are better at making them, a University of Sussex study has found.
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2014
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Everyone notices the academic superstars and failures, but what about the tens of millions of American teens straddling these two extremes? A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, has spotlighted a high school ...
Social Sciences
Aug 17, 2014
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In the U.S., couples with daughters are somewhat more likely to divorce than couples with sons. Many scholars have read those numbers as evidence that daughters cause divorce.
Social Sciences
Jul 15, 2014
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Satellites, Girl Scouts and good ole Charlie Brown highlight Orbital Sciences Corporation's second commercial resupply voyage to the International Space Station. The mission, Orbital-2, will both deliver new scientific investigations ...
Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2014
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Google has given The Associated Press an early look at how it's trying to change the gender disparity in its own workforce, and in the pipeline of potential workers, by launching a campaign Thursday called "Made with Code."
Social Sciences
Jun 19, 2014
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