Category: Gender and Sex
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Is a Woman in Brazil Better Off than a Woman in the U.S.?
Time: Is a Woman in Brazil Better Off than a Woman in the U.S.? Women overseas are reaching new heights professionally. Here's what we can learn from our emerging market counterpart. The mention of women in emerging economies often evokes a picture of oppressed and poverty-stricken victims, relegated to the sidelines of male-dominated cultures. That’s…
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The Secret Language Code
Scientific American: The Secret Language Code Psychologist James Pennebaker reveals the hidden meaning of pronouns … Much to my surprise, I soon discovered that the ways people used pronouns in their essays predicted whose health would improve the most. Specifically, those people who benefited the most from writing changed in their pronoun use from one…
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Pink makes women donate less to breast-cancer causes: study
The Globe and Mail: Pink makes women donate less to breast-cancer causes: study When professor Stefano Puntoni set out to study the marketing power of pink, he and his fellow researchers expected to prove the rosy colour makes campaigns against women’s diseases, such as breast and ovarian cancer, more effective. After all, pink is often…
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Presbyterians to allow gay ministers
StarTribune: Presbyterians to allow gay ministers …Twin Cities Presbyterians cast a historic vote on Tuesday to allow openly gay and lesbian members to be ordained ministers. Presbyterian leaders say the Twin Cities vote of 205 to 56 was the final action needed to end the 2.1 million-member denomination's national ban on gay clergy. A majority…
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Is marketing the princess mystique creating a pretty little monster for girls’ self-esteem?
Cleveland.com: Is marketing the princess mystique creating a pretty little monster for girls' self-esteem? … The princesses — Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty from the Walt era of Disney animation, and Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana and Rapunzel from more recent years — were once simply movie heroines. But since Disney introduced the…
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Recent studies have shown that the wage gap shrinks—or even reverses—when relevant factors are taken into account and comparisons are made between men and women in similar circumstances. …
Wall Street Journal: There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap A study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30 found that women earned 8% more than men. … Thus the mantra that women make only 77% of what men earn for equal work. But even a cursory review of the data…