Authoritarianism may be endorsed in part as a means of managing and buffering psychological threats (e.g., Duckitt & Fisher, 2003; Henry, 2011). Building on this research, the authors postulated that authoritarianism should be especially prevalent among women in societies with high levels of gender inequality because they especially face more psychological threats associated with stigma compare...

It may be agreed by most people that the growth of each person or country is driven by the power of gender. However, human’s understanding of gender origin is very little, and is solely based on the phenomenon of life on Earth. If humans raise up their head and look at the universe, its preliminary answer may emerge. In the history of mankind, the first person who was surprised at the look of c...

Using a sample of 703 African American adolescents from the Family and Community Health Study (FACHS) along with census data from the year 2000, we examine the association between neighborhood-level gender equality and violence. We find that boys' and girls' violent behavior is unevenly distributed across neighborhood contexts. In particular, gender differences in violent behavior are less pron...

Given the key role that processes occurring in the family play in creating gender inequality, the family is a central focus of policies aimed at creating greater gender equality. We examine how family status affects the gender wage gap using longitudinal matched employer-employee data from Norway, 1979-96, a period with extensive expansion of family policies. The motherhood penalty dropped dram...

LINDSAY A. GRESSARD Does the Gender Inequality Index Explain the Variation in State Prevalence Rates of Physical Teen Dating Violence Victimization? Background: Constituting a major public health problem, data from the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) suggest that nearly 1 out of every 10 high school students in the United States is a victim of physical teen dating violence (TDV). When th...

introduction: nose morphology depends on gender, ethnicity, and environmental conditions. it can be used in identification of the race and sex of persons whose identity is unknown. nasal index is a useful tool in anthropometry. methods: in this study, nasal parameters of iranian males and females students were measured (nasal height, nasal width, and nasal index). this study was conducted on 20...

This study has reviewed the lived experience of social and cultural active Kurdish women using qualitative methods and the Grounded Theory. The purpose of this study is identifying their attitude and practical responses to "gender inequality". Due to comparing two different aspects of these women's lived experience, at the end of the study, two paradigmatic models are obtained. The analysis of ...