Tag: Gender
Black men face high discrimination and depression, even as their education...
Shervin Assari, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and T.J. Curry, University of Edinburgh
Are you a highly educated and relatively wealthy Black...
Young women are hit doubly hard by recessions, especially this one
Angela Jackson, Monash University; David Johnston, Monash University, and Nicole Black, Monash University
We are entering our first pink-tinged recession.
The official unemployment figures released on...
How ‘Karen’ went from a popular baby name to a stand-in...
Robin Queen, University of Michigan
When I read about Amy Cooper, the woman in Central Park who called the police on a black birder because...
Adding women to corporate boards improves decisions about medical product safety
Corinne Post, Lehigh University ; Dave Ketchen, Auburn University; George Ball, Indiana University, and Kaitlin Wowak, University of Notre Dame
The Research Brief is a...
The 1950s queer black performers who inspired Little Richard
Ben Saunders, University of Oregon
Since Little Richard died on May 9, he’s been rightly celebrated as one of the most exciting and influential performers...
The fashionable history of social distancing
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Case Western Reserve University
As the world grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, “social distancing” has become a buzzword of these strange times.
Instead of...
Can gambling juice fandom for women’s sports?
Adam Cohen, University of Technology Sydney and Lindsey Darvin, State University of New York College at Cortland
Every March Madness, thousands of tweets...
How women dress for other women
Jaimie Arona Krems, Oklahoma State University
“If you can’t be better than your competition,” Vogue editor Anna Wintour once said, “just dress better.”
Indeed, new research...
EXPLORING NATURE
A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what...
Ted Powers, University of California, Davis
An antibiotic discovered on Easter Island in 1964 sparked a billion-dollar pharmaceutical success...
