Tag: Gender stereotypes
Stereotypes about girls dissuade many from careers in computer science
Allison Master, University of Houston; Andrew N. Meltzoff, University of Washington, and Sapna Cheryan, University of Washington
Stereotypes about...
None of the 2021 science Nobel laureates are women – here’s...
Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University
All of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men.
Why don’t more women win science Nobels?
Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University
All of the 2019 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men.
That’s a return to business as usual, after...
Why more women don’t win science Nobels
Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University
One of the 2018 Nobel Prizes in physics went to Donna Strickland, a major accomplishment for any scientist. Yet...
What about young men who are having unwanted sex?
Jessie Ford, New York University
Time Magazine recently featured “The Silence Breakers” as its 2017 “Person of the Year,” a nod to the countless women...
How a job acquires a gender (and less authority if it’s...
Sarah Thebaud, University of California, Santa Barbara and Laura Doering, McGill University
“I’m not bossy, I’m the boss.”
So proclaims Beyoncé in a video in...
126,000 reasons why the Emma Watson hoax isn’t all bad news
By Evita March, Federation University Australia
In less than a week since actor Emma Watson’s stirring United Nations speech on gender inequality, two big things...
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Polio in New York – an infectious disease doctor explains this...
William Petri, University of Virginia
The first case of polio in the U.S. since 2013 was announced by New...
