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A new study challenges that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.

Also, mothers may call on their children more often than fathers, given traditional gender norms.

Among young adults, living arrangements differ significantly by gender.

As in many other fields, gender bias is widespread in the sciences.

Beyond gender, young adults' living arrangements differ considerably by education—which is tied to financial means.

But he cautioned against concluding from this study that all brains are the same, regardless of gender.

Daphna Joel, who led the study, said her research found that while there are some gender-based similarities, many different types of brain can't always be distinguished by gender.

Even so, relatively few young women 15% say they have been discriminated against at work because of their gender.

Even so, relatively few young women 16% say they have been discriminated against at work because of their gender.

Gender norms and social expectations about caregiving may make it more difficult for men to provide care to sick spouses.

Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist, said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning traditional beliefs about gender and brain function.

Rather, the point is to use the results of this study to open up meaningful dialogues on implicit gender bias, be it at a departmental level or an institutional level or even a discipline level.

They were all edited for gender and other identifying information, so Dutt and her team could assign them a score without knowing the gender of the student.

They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.

As you acquire a distinctive identity, your attitudes are further refined by the behavior of those with whom you identify—your family, those of your gender and culture, and the people you admire, even though you may not know them personally.

The image which also contained novel descriptions of ants, fascinated a European audience that was more concerned with the exotic story unfolding before them than the gender of the person who painted it.

They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self expression.

We simply don't need more poetry, gender studies, or sociology majors.

Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.

A pair of bills sponsored by Massachusetts state Senator Jason Lewis and House Speaker Pro Tempore Patricia Haddad, to ensure "gender parity" on boards and commissions, provide a case in point.

And one of the easiest ways to segment a market is to magnify gender differences – or invent them where they did not previously exist.

But it's not just a gender thing.

Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice shows up: The divorced male doesn't have a waiting period before he can remarry while the woman must wait ten months.

Epley found no significant gender difference in responses.

Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity, remember that such policies are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.

Reding invited corporations to sign up for gender balance goals of 40 per cent female board membership.

Requiring companies to make gender the primary qualification for board membership will inevitably lead to less experienced private sector boards.

That is exactly what happened when Norway adopted a nationwide corporate gender quota.

The bills are similar to a measure recently adopted in California, which last year became the first state to require gender quotas for private companies.

Whole new realms of understanding—from gender to race to cultural studies—were opened up as scholars unpicked the multiplicity of lost societies.