Tag: women
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 US birth rate keeps declining: 4 questions answered
Marie Menke, University of Pittsburgh
Over the last few decades, birth rates have decreased across the globe.
The United States is no exception. Aside from a...
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...
Why the US still hasn’t had a woman president
Farida Jalalzai, Oklahoma State University
Estonia, Singapore, Ethiopia and Finland – these are some of the 21 countries currently governed by a female president or...
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...
How a Native American coming-of-age ritual is making a comeback
Rosalyn R. LaPier, The University of Montana
The Ojibwe, one of the largest indigenous groups in North America, with communities from Quebec to Montana, are...
Women in Arab countries find themselves torn between opportunity and tradition
Alainna Liloia, University of Arizona
Arab women, long relegated to the private sphere by law and social custom, are gaining new access to public life.
All...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
