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Girl power surges in India

By putting 18 million cracks in the proverbial glass ceiling, Hillary Clinton changed the way Americans think about women in politics, and new Northwestern University research suggests that an affirmative action law in India ...

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Football team success throws fall grades of non-athletic college males for a loss

(PhysOrg.com) -- College football bowl season is in prime time, and a new report card is in: Male grades drop relative to female grades when their college football team performs well during the regular season.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spain's digital gender gap is larger than European average

Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have compared internet use and frequency in Spain with the rest of the 31 European countries. Their results suggest that Spanish women use the internet ...

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created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

People born after World War II are more likely to binge drink, develop alcohol disorders

Drinking can be influenced by both personal and societal factors, including economic fluctuations, political instability, and social norms. These factors, in turn, can vary among countries and time periods, leading to different ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

European women live longer than men, but not better

European women live longer than men, because of both biological and behavioural advantages, but women's longer lives are not necessarily healthy lives. Studies commented on by Dr Vannuzzo at the ESC Congress 2011, show that ...

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created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Time trends in STEMI -- improved treatment and outcome but gender gap persists

In spite of an increased attention to gender differences in treatment of myocardial infarctions, focus on adherence to guidelines and a change in predominant therapy, the gender difference in treatment and mortality regarding ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Study: New job trends reproducing old forms of gender inequality

Jobs that come with large paychecks but long work hours are slowing the gains women have made since the late 70s in narrowing the gender wage gap.

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created Aug 21, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers reveal Wikipedia gender biases

Computer science researchers in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering are leading a team that has confirmed a substantial gender gap among editors of Wikipedia and a corresponding gender-oriented ...

Technology / Internet

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

ONR encouraging women to pursue STEM careers

(PhysOrg.com) -- While an Aug. 3 government study shows women still lag behind men in high-tech educations and careers, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has been working to narrow that gap within the Department of the Navy.

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created Aug 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Heart disease, No. 1 killer, can sneak up on women

Heart disease can sneak up on women in ways that standard cardiac tests can miss. It's part of a puzzling gender gap: Women tend to have different heart attack symptoms than men. They're more likely to die in the year after ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Millions of girls lost to selective abortion in India: study

Sex selection of foetuses in India has led to 7.1 million fewer girls than boys up to age six, a gender gap that has widened by more than a million in a decade, according to a study released Tuesday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Women entering the workforce expect less than men, study finds

Women have lower career expectations than men, anticipating smaller paycheques and longer waits for promotions, according to a new study involving a University of Guelph researcher.

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created May 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study: Teachers unaware of growing gender gaps in classrooms

A gap in reading and math scores still exists in lower grades, with boys continuing to outpace girls in math, and girls ahead of boys in reading, two University of Illinois education professors say.

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created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Smoking accounts for up to 60 percent of gender gap in deaths across Europe

Smoking accounts for up to 60% of the gender gap in death rates across Europe, and kills twice as many men as alcohol, reveals research published online in Tobacco Control.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 17, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Phones are a feminist issue in Bangladesh

Dressed in a colourful sari, clutching boxes of herbal tea in one hand and a battered old Nokia mobile phone in the other, Monowara Talukder doesn't look like the average business executive.

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created Dec 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0