Gender

How the Myth of Meritocracy has Perpetuated Gender Inequality in Academia
Business and Management INK
April 27, 2016

How the Myth of Meritocracy has Perpetuated Gender Inequality in Academia

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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering Fields?
Business and Management INK
April 15, 2016

Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering Fields?

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How is the Media Hindering Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights?
Business and Management INK
March 29, 2016

How is the Media Hindering Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights?

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Apprenticeship Returns: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?
Business and Management INK
March 11, 2016

Apprenticeship Returns: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?

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Tackling Gender Stereotypes With the Power of Words

Tackling Gender Stereotypes With the Power of Words

Gendered language shapes how we think about the appropriate roles for men and women, especially when we are children and just beginning to form our understanding of the world. That might not sound like a problem, but it can reinforce stereotypes we are trying to tear down.

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Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Kristin Hübner

Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Kristin Hübner

Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Kristin Hübner’s discussion on how feminist theory may erase socially constructed ideas about what gender is and how it functions.

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Unequal to the Task: Task Segregation As a Mechanism of Inequality for Women at Work

Unequal to the Task: Task Segregation As a Mechanism of Inequality for Women at Work

Gender inequality studies have long focused on identifying the material disparities between men and women in the workforce, including researching the gender […]

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Picking a Descriptor Also Picks a Gender

Picking a Descriptor Also Picks a Gender

A recent data-mapping project reveals that women professors are consistently more likely to be described as feisty, bossy, aggressive, shrill, condescending, rude — and nice.

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How Science Communication Can Validate Sexism

How Science Communication Can Validate Sexism

Cliodhna O’Connor describes how traditional gender stereotypes sometimes get projected onto scientific information and its subsequent reporting.

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Free Access to Women’s Research in Honor of International Women’s Day

Free Access to Women’s Research in Honor of International Women’s Day

This piece was originally posted on International Women’s Day at the Management Ink blog. It is re-posted here with permission. *** It was International Women’s […]

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Whose Jobs Are These?

Whose Jobs Are These?

In firms with more female managers, are newly created jobs more likely to be filled by men or by women? Lisa E. […]

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Gender and Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Gender and Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace

Kathryn Thory of Strathclyde University Business School in Glasgow, Scotland published “A Gendered Analysis of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace: Issues and […]

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