Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Aiming for Gender Diversity Beyond the Binary
Who do you think of when you hear the words ‘managing gender diversity’?
Hidden Identities: Uncovering Gender Bias in Soccer Evaluation
if you couldn’t tell the gender of the players, would you find watching men’s or women’s soccer more enjoyable? A new study suggests the likely answer is … both.
Our Study Finds Women Are Better at Statistics Than They Think
Women in statistics classes do better academically than men over a semester despite having more negative attitudes regarding their own abilities, according to our recent study.
The Gender Banter: Implications of Not Practicing What We Preach
“When you educate a man, you educate a person, but when you educate a woman, you educate an entire generation.” The same applies to empowering women to find their footing in organized employment.
Social Scientists Need Data on Gender Identity – and on Sex
Rather than removing data on sex, we should collect data on both sex and gender identity, in order to develop a better understanding of the influence of both of these factors and the intersection between them.
Resources to Mark International Transgender Day of Visibility
This post several collects resources that have appeared on Social Science Space centered on trans issues, including a webinar recording on the state of trans studies occasioned by the 2021 publication of The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies.
Thoughts on Gender in the 21st Century University Environment
In May 2017 a small band of researchers at Bournemouth University organized a workshop on “Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century.” The participants’ openness to a discussion on sexuality, gender, and emotion began to expose this latest generation’s “ambivalence,” even “dissonance,” regarding concepts such as “gender” and “sexuality.”
One Strategy Does Not Fit All: A Look at Impression Management
Impression management describes the act of trying to control the first impression someone might have of an individual. It refers to shaping […]
