Gender Differences

Why We're Still Talking About A 'Masculinity Crisis'

Salon | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Gender Differences, Men, Gender Gap, Education, Masculinity Crisis, Differences Between Males and Females, Gender Problems, Women News

No, you haven't stumbled across an article from 2005. Yes, we're still talking about the so-called "masculinity crisis." The new e-book "The Demise...

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30 Reasons It's Awesome To Be A Woman

BuzzFeed | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Female Communication Skills, Gender Differences, Longer Life, Female Wardrobes, Beyonce, Womens Health, Female Sport, Advantages of Being Female, Being a Woman, Women News

Women live longer, get to wear more sequins, and are better communicators and leaders. In case you needed more reasons being a chick is great, here th...

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Why So Bleak?

Andrew Smiler | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Hbo, Gender Differences, Sex Ed, Relationships, Women and Relations, Sex and Dating, Men and Relationships, Relationship Advice, Girls, Lena Dunham, Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus, Teaching Kids About Sex, Women News
Andrew Smiler

Girls talk about relationships almost exclusively with other girls or women. Boys get to figure it out for themselves, leading the sexes to different levels of understanding about relationships.

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Ladies First: Studies Show Women Are Better Leaders. So Why Aren't There More of Us Leading?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Gender Differences, Women and Leadership, Sheryl Sandberg, 16 Percent Ghetto, Joseph Folkman, Gender Pay Gap, Jack Zenger, Mommy Track, Feminine Strength, Feminism, Debora-Spar, Harvard Business Review, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

In the span of a little over a week, two huge studies have found that women are viewed as better leaders than men.

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Surprising Things Women, Men Want Revealed By Social Media Study

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Gender Differences, Women, Social Media, Men, Video, Ice Cream, Ford, Automobile, Science News

By: Leslie Meredith Published: 03/14/2012 05:50 PM EDT on TechNewsDaily   Forget fancy brands. What a man really wants is a Ford, while...

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Are Women Morally Different From Men?

Psychology Today | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Moral Outlook, Moral Values, Supreme Court, Gender Differences, Ethical Decisions, Judges, Men Women Differences, Womens Judgement, Women News

With Barack Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan, the United States Supreme Court is likely to have more women than ever before. Some wonder whether the ...

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A Chef -- Neither Man Nor Woman

Gillian Clark | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Chef, Line Cook, Job Search, Cooking, Gender, Gender Differences, Gender Discrimination, Interview, DC News
Gillian Clark

Not many people outside of the business of food know the meaninglessness of gender that food industry workers experience. Gender is insignificant when tickets are piling up and you wish you had another arm to get through the night.

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What Gives Your Job Meaning?

Posted 02.17.2012

Read More: Gender Differences, Video, Job Satisfaction, Payscale, Men and Women at Work, Catherine Rampell, Career Success, Career Advice for Women, Women and Work, Happiness, Women News

Is your job a way to pay the bills, or is it part of how you define yourself? This week, Catherine Rampell of The New York Times took a look at ho...

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Mars and Venus in the... Parking Garage?

Sam Sommers | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Mars and Venus, Aggression, Gender, Parking, Spatial Skill, Dating, Situations Matter, Evolution, Navigation, Gender and Differences, Men and Women, Men Women, Men vs Women, Gender Differences, Gender Difference, New Research, Gender Differences Psychology, Emotional Intelligence, Video, Healthy Living News
Sam Sommers

It's one of the perils of theorizing about sex differences: Our own expectations and intuitions get in the way. We hear about a study that reveals a significant sex gap and we immediately jump to conclusions.

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What You Don't Know About People

Sam Sommers | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Personality Types, Situations Matter, Curriculum, Context, Personality, Kindergarten, Crowds, Airlines, Customer Service, Human Nature, Negotiation, Gender Differences, Mars and Venus, Gym, Sex Differences, Attraction, Gender, Arousal, Dating, Internet Dating, Video, Culture News
Sam Sommers

You've been lied to. Or, at the very least, misled. It's simply not true that everything you need to know about life you learned in Kindergarten.

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Do You Drink More With Your Partner?

The Huffington Post | Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Gender Differences, College-Binge-Drinking, Relationships, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Alcohol Abuse, Binge Drinking, Peer Pressure, Women News

Who you date could influence how you drink, according to a new study from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. The study followed the drinking ...

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Do Men And Women Cooperate Differently?

Art Markman, Ph.D. | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Gender Differences, Women, Cooperation, Behavioral Economics, Men, Prisoner's Dilemma, Cooperation and Prisoner's Dilemma, Men and Cooperation, Psychology of Cooperation, Women and Cooperation, Emotional Intelligence, Cooperation Research, Healthy Living News
Art Markman, Ph.D.

If you are trying to create an environment in which people are going to cooperate, you are probably better off fostering an environment of team unity and trust than you are focusing on the gender balance of the group.

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Can You Spot An Attractive Man From Only Reading His Profile?

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Gender Difference Research, Rebecca Brand, Attractiveness, Gender Differences, Timothy Judge, Online Dating, Harvard Study, Online Dating Advice, Confidence, Happiness, Women News

It's always tempting when you're creating an online dating profile to use a photo that makes you seem ever-so-slightly hotter than you are in real lif...

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Why Women Need to Be the Ones Occupying Wall Street

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: The-Feminine-Aspect, Risk Taking, Gender Differences, Catalyst, Occupy Wall Street, Dr. Judy Rosener, Corporate Greed, Power, Elizabeth Lesser, Power Inequities, The Masculine Aspect, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

What's the Occupy Wall Street movement -- an ongoing, multi-city protest against corporate greed, cronyism and inequity -- got to do with gender politics, you ask? I say: everything.

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The Shocking New Findings About Hair Loss And Divorce

The Huffington Post | Stephanie Hallett | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Causes of Hair Loss, Gender Differences, Marriage, Hair Loss, Ukrelationships, Divorce, Women Hair Loss, Effects of Divorce, Men Hair Loss, Ukwomen, Dr. Bahman Guyuron, Divorce and Hair Loss, Video, Divorce News

Getting divorced is tough. Splitting your finances, your property, your kids, your time -- all of those factors can lead to high levels of stress. And...

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Men and Women, Ballet, and the Shock of Recognition

Michael Henry | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Ballet Nouveau Colorado, Women, Gender Differences, Colorado Ballet, Grief, Poems, Ballet, Denver Around Town, Garrett Ammon, Sylvia Plath, Coping, Dance, Poetry, Denver News
Michael Henry

I'm fresh off one of the high points of my life: watching Ballet Nouveau Colorado perform Intersection, a full-length narrative ballet based on poems I wrote in collaboration with Garrett Ammon, Artistic Director of BNC.

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The Relationship Between Power And Infidelity

Sam Sommers | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gender Differences, Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton, Mars and Venus, Hard-Wired-for-Heirarchy, Biology, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marital Infidelity, Gender, Infidelity, John Ensign, Sex, Tiger Woods, John Edwards, Men and Women, Extramarital Affair, Cheating, Evolution, Newt Gingrich, Confidence, David Letterman, Status, Power, Psychological Science, Dateline NBC, Cheating Spouse, National Enquirer, Brain Science, Healthy Living News
Sam Sommers

What if the presumed sex difference in infidelity isn't as set-in-stone as we assume it is? What if power does predict unfaithfulness, but no more so for men than women?

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The Gender Gap in Travel: Myths and Revelations

New York Times | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Gender Differences, Tips-for-Women-Travelers, Female Travelers, Women Travelers, Women Travelling Alone, Women News

Readers often write in to remark that I am a man, a fact of which I am generally aware. But then they point out something that often slips my mind: my...

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Gender Differences: Challenge Or Accept Them?

Belinda Parmar | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Gender Difference Research, Gender Autism Research, Gender Technology, Gender Differences, Women and Technology, Gender Research Autism, Gender Research, Women Tech, Gender Autism, Women News
Belinda Parmar

Would girls really opt for pink (a color considered highly masculine up to the 19th century) and boys veer towards the Lego aisle if the world didn'...

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Texting Is for Boys: Warn Your Daughters to Just Say No!

Fran Lasker | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Conversation, The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine, Gender Differences, Intimacy, Communication, Texting, Parents News
Fran Lasker

It is true that boys and men have always been reluctant to talk, but fortunately for our society, girls and women have been in the vanguard of the communication movement. Tragically, this is changing.

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8 Reasons Why Stay-at-Home Dads Are Better Than Stay-at-Home Moms

Greg Olear | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Gender Differences, Humor, Stay at Home Dads, Stay-at-Home Moms, Parents-Dads, Parents News
Greg Olear

If necessity dictates that one half of the couple remain at the hearth to keep the proverbial home fires burning, there are some advantages to having that person be Dad.

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Why Men Act Crazy

Niobe Way, Ph.D. | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Parenting, Male Gender Roles, Gender Differences, Masculinity, Gender Stereotypes, Parenting Boys, Gender Roles, Women News
Niobe Way, Ph.D.

Our modern notions of maturity and manhood, with its emphasis on separation and stoicism to the exclusion of connection and vulnerability, are at the root of why men treat themselves and others so poorly.

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Are Men Really Thinkers? Are Women Really Feelers?

Charles R. Martin, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gender Differences, Men Women Communication Styles, Venus vs. Mars, Venus Mars Myth, Male Female Differences, Relationships, Men vs. Women, Men Women Differences, Male Female Communication, Men Women Communication, Healthy Living Mind, Love and Relationships, Healthy Living News
Charles R. Martin, Ph.D.

Sure, many men are indeed Thinking types, and many women are Feeling types. But behaviors associated with Thinking and Feeling may have less to do with essential qualities of maleness/femaleness and more do with personality type.

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How Men And Women Can Be Wiser About Each Other

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gender Equality, Gender Differences, Gender Stereotypes, Relationships, Masculinity, Sex Differences, Femininity, Gender, Gender Roles, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

What I hear from women is that they yearn for men to join them in finding that kind of fulfillment, but, sad to say, I don't often hear the same thing from men, which means that there is a gender gap to be closed.

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Men: We Must Evolve Beyond Male Stereotypes

Deepak Chopra | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gender Equality, Gender Differences, Masculinity, Relationships, Femininity, Gender Stereotypes, Gender Roles, Sex Differences, Gender, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

Social conditioning is hard to change, I know. Peer pressure is a dominant force in creating the sexual stereotypes we live with. To evolve beyond them takes one thing: self-awareness.

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