Imaging studies have indicated that males and females differ anatomically in brain regions thought to underlie language functions. Functional studies have corroborated this difference by showing gender differences in terms of language processing with females relying on less lateralized processing strategies than males. Gender differences in musical functions might show similar differences in fu...

Morgan Stanley has been hit, yet again, with a gender discrimination lawsuit. ... The suit comes two years after former Morgan broker Allison Schieffelin was awarded $12 million in her sexual discrimination suit against the firm. ... According to this latest complaint, ... ‘‘Morgan Stanley has engaged in a pattern and practice of gender discrimination with respect to compensation and promoting ...

A relationship among language, gender, and discourse genre has previously been observed in informal, spoken interaction and formal, written texts. This study investigates the language/gender/genre relationship in weblogs, a popular new mode of computer-mediated communication (CMC). Taking as the dependent variables stylistic features identified in machine learning research and popularized in a ...

Emily Martin’s (Signs J Women Cult Soc 16(31):485–501, 1991) article, ‘‘The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male–Female Roles,’’ was published in Signs over 20 years ago. In this groundbreaking article, she discusses how gender roles are often projected onto reproductive biology, leading to the portrayal of eggs as passive and sperm as active. We ...

The literature on lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) affirmative psychotherapy suggests that heterosexist and homophobic discourses persist in the accounts of counsellors and therapists (Milton, Coyle & Legg, 2005) and that these may particularly cohere around the issue of same-sex parenting (Moon, 1994; Phillips, et al 2000). The current research demonstrates that this was the case in focus group...

INTRODUCTION: Recent estimates suggest there are at least 25 million transgender people worldwide. Up to 0.9% of the US population is thought to express some form of gender dysphoria. Medical and surgical gender-confirmation has been proven to have a substantial impact on transgender patients’ physiologic and psychosocial outcomes along with improved quality of life. Yet, little is known about ...

Available online 11 March 2014 Purpose: The current study sought to determine whether sex moderated peer mediation of the externalizingdelinquency relationship as part of a larger test of the gendered pathways theory of crime. Methods: Data gathered from 4,144 (2,079 males and 2,065 females) members of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child sample were subjected to simple correlational...

We have had 25 years of research on men and masculinities. The relationship between men as gendered beings, power and change has been central in this research. This article presents some of the main findings that most researchers within critical studies on men will agree on, and then it discusses how to better understand men’s relationship to power and marginalization, change and gender equalit...

It is widely acknowledged that women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields are underrepresented in leadership globally. However, little is known about how leadership styles of women in STEMM relate to this underrepresentation. This article discusses findings from a survey examining how 61 women in STEMM define leadership and describe their own leadership ...