The words sin and science are seldom mentioned in the same sentence. However, I suspect that sin, both individual and societal, is a contributing factor to the fact that male scientists outnumber female ones. This suggestion is not intended to produce the guilt and shame that is already so common in women, but intended rather to illuminate an issue and perhaps guide strategies to change. The ge...

Consider the following (simple) English sentences: “I drive a car.”, “I don’t know how to drive”, “I wash the car”, “I wash the floor”. Translating them to Hebrew using Google’s statistical MT system, yields: zipekna bdep ip` (I drive(masculine) a car); bedpl zr ei `l ip` (I don’t know(feminine) how to drive); ugex ip` zipeknd z` (I wash(masculine) the car); and dtvxd z` zthey ip` (I wash(femin...

androgynous mind: Virginia Woolf introduced this term in A Room of One’s Own (1929) to indicate the creative mentality that partakes of both masculine (andro) and feminine (gyno) qualities. Heilbrun and Bazin see it as a balancing of “the evanescent masculine and the eternal feminine” as typical of the enlightened state, yet Showalter and others have seen it as a “sexist myth in disguise,” reif...

The purpose of this article is to explore the evolution feminine nouns and also paper trace out possible aspects know through Sangam literature that ancient Tamil people gave importance tradition in their lives. uniqueness it gives home life internally homeless other outside. Among them are Purannauru, who San trio virtue, Material Home, which can be praised as Puram, Puranool, Purappattu, Pura...

Cognitive and motivational effects of more neutral or androgynous-looking virtual characters versus more pronouncedly feminine-looking or masculine-looking virtual characters are explored. In a user study, 158 students aged 17-19 encountered four virtual characters that were visually manipulated to represent gender stereotypicality versus androgyny. One aim was to explore students’ attitudes to...