Gender Difference News
May 2, 2024
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Apr. 9, 2024 New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the ...
Apr. 10, 2024 A new review of research evidence has explored the key differences in how women and men sleep, variations in their body clocks, and how this affects their ...
Apr. 3, 2024 Forming a long-term recreational exercise habit as a young person has a beneficial impact on physical and mental health later in life, but some groups, such as females and academic high-achievers, miss out on these benefits ...
Feb. 29, 2024 People at risk of Alzheimer's disease have impaired spatial navigation prior to problems with other cognitive functions, including memory, finds a new ...
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Mar. 6, 2024 Certain factors associated with developing age-related hearing loss differ by sex, including weight, smoking behavior, and hormone exposure, ...
Feb. 19, 2024 Researchers have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence model that can distinguish between male and female ...
Feb. 8, 2024 If you're looking for a long-term relationship or to boost your social status, lower your pitch, according to researchers studying the effects of voice pitch on social perceptions. They found that ...
Jan. 31, 2024 A new study has found that the brain system enabling us to inhibit our own pain changes with age, and that gender-based differences in those changes may lead females to be more sensitive to moderate ...
Jan. 23, 2024 Being more forgiving of your own shortcomings in a romantic relationship can lead to happier couples. A total of 209 heterosexual couples were ...
Jan. 4, 2024 People who have more disrupted sleep in their 30s and 40s may be more likely to have memory and thinking problems a decade later, according to new research published in the January 3, 2024, online ...
Dec. 14, 2023 A new study shows that people use facial appearance to make sentencing decisions, and finds an intervention to counter the ...
Nov. 21, 2023 From social media to the workplace, non-stereotypical apologies can help repair trust, according to new ...
Nov. 20, 2023 New research combined both physiological and archaeological evidence to argue that not only did prehistoric women engage in the practice of hunting, but their female anatomy and biology would have ...
Nov. 20, 2023 This study examined the association between work performance and lifestyle habits among Japanese employees. The results revealed that insufficient ...
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Apr. 17, 2024 Gender stereotypes mean that girls can be celebrated for their emotional openness and maturity in school, while boys are seen as likely to mask their emotional distress through silence or disruptive ...
Mar. 22, 2024 More than half of all new doctors face some form of sexual harassment in their first year on the job, including nearly three-quarters of all new female doctors and a third of males, a new study ...
Mar. 20, 2024 A study of more than 3,000 middle-aged and older women living in England showed that those who believed they had encountered gender discrimination were more likely to report declines in wellbeing ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Fear may affect women's decisions in choosing immediate rewards versus larger delayed ones, while men's decisions appear unaffected by emotion, according to a new ...
Feb. 29, 2024 A new paper examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology -- habituation and neural adaptation -- on the efficacy of mate ...
Feb. 29, 2024 The likelihood that a girl will participate in high school sports in the United States is driven not so much by individual choice, new research suggests. Instead, decisions made by parents, the ...
Feb. 14, 2024 Gender, culture, and age all appear to play a role in how emojis are interpreted, according to a new ...
Feb. 12, 2024 Children's interest in, and competence perceptions of, mathematics are generally quite positive as they begin school, but turn less positive during the first three years. This is shown by a ...
Dec. 21, 2023 In a new study, viewers of Facebook users' posts came away with perceptions of the users that differed from the users' own ...
Oct. 30, 2023 While there are a number of studies demonstrating that dog therapy programs can improve a person's social and emotional wellbeing, many typically have a disproportionate number of female ...
Oct. 20, 2023 In the largest-ever review of faculty retention in the United States, researchers reveal how harassment, a sense of not belonging and other factors contribute to a lack of gender diversity among ...
Oct. 20, 2023 Anthropologists challenge the traditional view of men as hunters and women as gatherers in prehistoric times. Their research reveals evidence of gender equality in roles and suggests that women were ...
Oct. 17, 2023 Researchers have shown female sex hormones play a significant role in how Alzheimer's manifests in the brain. The study also highlights the importance of developing therapeutic strategies ...
Oct. 16, 2023 Fathers and mothers who believe men should hold the power and authority in society and the family were less responsive to their children during family interactions, according to University of ...
Oct. 5, 2023 Young female chess players often face gender bias both in the male-dominated chess world and among parents and mentors who believe girls have less potential to succeed in chess than boys, according ...
Oct. 1, 2023 In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a 'fairy tale,' ...
Aug. 29, 2023 Among the negative impacts of extreme weather events around the world is one that most people may not think of: an increase in child ...
Aug. 21, 2023 Struggling with a teenager who refuses to ditch digital devices at night and wakes up grumpy? Boarding school could be the ...
Aug. 14, 2023 Men navigate their intimate partner relationships depending on their masculine style, says new research which drew from in-depth interviews with 92 straight men ages 19 to 43 from diverse cultural ...
Aug. 10, 2023 Life is harder for adolescents who are not attractive or athletic. New research shows low attractive and low athletic youth became increasingly unpopular over the course of a school year, leading to ...
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- Perceived Gender Discrimination Linked to Decline in Wellbeing for Older Women
- Fear May Lead Women and Men to Make Different Decisions When Choosing Short-VS-Long-Term Rewards
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- Shining a Light on the Effects of Habituation and Neural Adaptation on the Evolution of Animal Signals
- Parents, Wealth, Race Drive Girls' Chances to Play Sports
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- Harsh Workplace Climate Is Pushing Women out of Academia, Review Finds
- Challenging Prehistoric Gender Roles: Research Finds That Women Were Hunters, Too
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- Male Gender Bias Deters Men from Some Career Paths
- Men May Not 'perceive' Domestic Tasks as Needing Doing in the Same Way as Women, Philosophers Argue
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
- Cluster Headache May Be More Severe in Women
- Characters' Actions in Movie Scripts Reflect Gender Stereotypes
Thursday, December 15, 2022
- Some Claim Culture Affects Our Basic Visual Perception
- Economic Behavior Not Influenced by Gender or Biological Sex, Study Finds
- Adult Children More Likely to Be Estranged from Dad Than Mom, Study Shows
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- Managers Exhibiting Bias Based on Race, Gender, Disability and Sexual Orientation
- Parents Talk More to Toddlers Who Talk Back
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- Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Science by Looking at Citations
- Mouse Study Explores Alzheimer's Link to the X Chromosome
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- Are 'person' Or 'people' Gender-Neutral Concepts? New Study Finds Male Tilt in Analysis of Billions of Words
- Pandemic Lockdowns Had Severe Mental Health Consequences for Women in the Developing World
Thursday, March 31, 2022
- Those Who Ogle Also More Likely to Have Harmful Attitudes, Study Finds
- Married Mothers Who Earn More Than Their Husbands Take on an Even Greater Share of the Housework, Research Finds
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- Men and Women Process Pain Signals Differently
- Study Points to Strategies for Closing the Participation Gender Gap in Engineering Courses