#USportsSoMale: Gender (In)equity in Canadian Interuniversity Varsity Sport

Gender verification in sport.

Gender-specific associations between involvement in team sport culture and canadian adolescents’ substance-use behavior

Canadian adolescents have some of the highest rates of substance use in the world. The etiology of this phenomenon has not been fully explored, and one possible contextual determinant is involvement in sport activities that foster risk-taking behaviors through physical and social mechanisms. Using the 2013-14 Health Behaviour in School Aged Children (HBSC) study we therefore examined this hypot...

Association between Body Composition and Sport Injury in Canadian Adolescents

Purpose: To examine the association between overweight or obesity and sport injury in a population-based sample of Canadian adolescents. Methods: Cross-sectional analyses were performed using the Canadian Community Health Survey (2009-2010), a nationally representative sample (n=12,407) of adolescents aged 12-19 years. Body composition was quantified using BMI, grouping participants into health...

Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity

Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to ‘climb the job ladder.’ However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. Focusing on a subsample of younger, university-educated workers from an Australian longitudinal survey, we find strong evidence that the dynamic...

Interuniversity Master in Statistics and Operations Research