The perceptual representation of voice gender was examined with two experimental paradigms: identification/discrimination and selective adaptation. The results from the identification and discrimination of a synthetic male-female voice continuum indicated that voice gender perception was not categorical. In addition, results from selective adaptation experiments with natural and synthetic voice...

We examine experimentally how a person's generosity depends on the sex of that person, on the sex of the person who is the target of the generous act, and on the degree of anonymity between the interacting parties. In our data fewer men than women give non-zero amounts; men receive less than women; and less is given when subjects receive money publicly on stage than when payments are private. T...

Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques in this field to analyze education expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination agai...

Gender discrimination in the workplace is a really important problem right now. Based on this backdrop, purpose of paper to investigate topic and establish research subject, which will be China’s gender discrimination, with hope exploring certain common legislation from perspective human resource administration. Through use literature, study discovered that process management force, definition ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to quantify levels of violence and discrimination among people with disabilities and analyze the effects of gender and the type and degree of disability. METHODS The study analyzed data on self-reported violence and discrimination from a Danish national survey of 18,019 citizens, of whom 4519 reported a physical disability and 1398 reported a mental disabil...

Researchers have suggested that perceptions of discrimination may vary depending on place of birth and the length of time spent living in the U.S., variables related to acculturation. However, the existing literature provides a mixed picture, with data suggesting that the effects of acculturation on perceptions of discrimination vary by race and other sociodemographic factors. This study evalua...

Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender A vast labor literature has found evidence of a “glass ceiling”, whereby women are underrepresented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability of female managers. Disentangling these theo...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper develops a new model to analyze price discrimination in matching markets where agents have private information about their respective qualities. On the basis of signals (car, clothing, club membership, etc.) purchased from profit-maximizing firms, men and women form beliefs about each other's qualities. The matching must then be stable in the following sense: th...

Two of the most studied psychosocial variables in relation to HIV are behavioral adaptation and perceived discrimination. The main objective of this study was to analyze whether behavioral adaptation and perceived discrimination can predict risky behaviors for HIV infection depending on cultural and gender differences. The sample was composed of 815 adolescents aged between 14 and 19 years old ...