Researchers: Girls in hijab experience overlapping forms of racial and gendered violence
World Hijab Day recognizes the millions of Muslim women and girls who wear the traditional Islamic headscarf.
World Hijab Day recognizes the millions of Muslim women and girls who wear the traditional Islamic headscarf.
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2024
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Current debates about gender have become polarized. These divisive arguments tend to focus on narrowly defining "man" or "woman," rather than considering archetypal underpinnings of the feminine and masculine. For psychiatrist ...
Social Sciences
Jan 29, 2024
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Modeling is a dream occupation for many young women, but for those who make modeling a career, finding work can be a traumatic, sexualized nightmare, a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study finds.
Social Sciences
Jan 12, 2024
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South Korea's bachelor time bomb is about to really go off. Following a historic 30-year-long imbalance in the male-to-female sex ratio at birth, young men far outnumber young women in the country. As a result, some 700,000 ...
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2024
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In microbiology, microorganisms may be named after well-known scientific personalities to honor them. Such eponyms are common in the natural sciences, such as pasteurization (after the microbiologist Louis Pasteur).
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 18, 2023
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It's been over 50 years since there was a legal and cultural shift around women keeping their last names when they married. But many women who marry men still opt to change their name to their husband's upon saying, "I do."
Social Sciences
Nov 30, 2023
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Women consistently raise concerns about their safety when moving through their cities and communities.
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2023
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Young people see the internet as a natural platform for their everyday romantic and sexual encounters, but at the same time, they have to weigh up the benefits against various risks and dangers. This is according to a new ...
Social Sciences
Oct 25, 2023
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From Clara in "The Nutcracker" to the nymphs in "Afternoon of a Faun," a new study from UConn researchers is among the first to empirically document what many dance enthusiasts have known for some time: Audience members expect ...
Social Sciences
Oct 24, 2023
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The risk of incarceration for Black men in the United States was cut nearly in half between 1999 and 2019, according to a new study that assesses the impact of falling rates of imprisonment in each of the 50 states.
Social Sciences
Sep 18, 2023
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