The American Heart Association, Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR), and WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease, yesterday applauded passage of important legislation that would make crucial data available about how new drugs and medical devices affect women, minorities and ethnic groups.
New national poll shows women favor mandate more than men.
Studies have consistently reported that women require reading glasses or bifocal lenses earlier than men. According to a recent Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science paper, the gender difference is caused by factors other than focusing ability, such as arm length or preferred reading distance, which should be considered when prescribing readers or bifocals.
A Mayo Clinic study looked at skeletal muscle mass and bone health across the life span and discovered distinct differences in how muscle affects the two layers of bone in men and women.
Studies show Olympics commentary differs based on gender, race and nationality.
A survey of mid-career academic physician researchers finds that gender differences in salary exist, even after adjustment for differences in specialty, institutional characteristics, academic productivity, academic rank, work hours, and other factors, according to a study in the June 13 issue of JAMA.
Male doctors make more money than their female counterparts, even when factoring in medical specialty, title, work hours, productivity and a host of other factors, according to a comprehensive new analysis from researchers at the University of Michigan Health System and Duke University.
Featuring international and American thought leaders in sex differences research, the annual meeting of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD), a flagship program of the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR), took place June 7-9 in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, and was hosted jointly this year with the International Society for Gender Medicine (IGM) for the first time. Highlighting young investigators and renowned researchers from across the globe, the sixth annual meeting allowed for international collaboration and innovation in the field of sex differences.
What are the roots of gender inequality? How have the challenges faced by women changed over time? Sally Kitch, an ASU Regents’ Professor of Women and Gender Studies, has spent many years exploring the reasons why the world sees men and women so differently. To find answers, she has explored questions ranging from the gendered origins of race to American utopian communities.
Much like their male counterparts, female terrorists are likely to be educated, employed and native residents of the country where they commit a terrorist act, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
Women serve as CEOs of just 17 of the Fortune 500 top companies in the United States. PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has been quoted as saying, “The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.” However, that may not necessarily be happening. Research from Washington University in St. Louis finds that women often do not support qualified female candidates as potential high-prestige work group peers.
New findings could help explain why women are more likely than men to have coronary symptoms after emotional upsets.
Data reveals men are most likely to start businesses for the money, women for social value.
Women Derive Less Benefit From Elective Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Details of long-term study compares surgery results for men and women
Roxanne Hughes is winning high praise — and international recognition — for her recently completed doctoral dissertation, which identified a variety of factors that influence female undergraduates as they make a decision about their major.
Recognizing the abundance of sex and gender differences in scientific research, the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) continues to urge journals to report on these important differences. Recently, former SWHR Board member Dr. Virginia Miller has successfully advocated for the inclusion of sex differences in the 13 peer-reviewed journals of the American Physiology Society (APS).
A new study by a faculty member at North Dakota State University, Fargo, and an NDSU alumnus, found health magazines are more likely than general popular culture magazines to use powerless language, or language that lacks certainty or directness, when reporting new health information.
APS announces new policy requiring identification of sex or gender in reporting of scientific research in its 13 peer-reviewed journals.
Michael S. Irwig, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine, Anton Trinidad, M.D., PhD., associate professor of Psychiatry, and Matthew St. Peter, a fourth year medical student at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, co-authored an article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine entitled, “Self-Castration by a Transsexual Woman: Financial and Psychological Costs: A Case Report.” Dr. Irwig and his co-authors discuss the case of a transsexual woman who presented to the emergency room after undertaking self-castration.
Among college professors who take paid post-birth leave and who believe infant care duties should be shared equally by both sexes, the women almost always do more than half of the infant care, and report enjoying it more than men, which is likely rooted in evolutionary differences between the sexes.
Women with advanced degrees in math-intensive academic fields drop out of fast-track research careers primarily because they want children – not because their performance is devalued or they are shortchanged during interviewing and hiring, according to a new study at Cornell University.
The underrepresentation of women in science has received significant attention. However, there have been few studies in which longitudinal data were used to assess changes over time. In a paper recently published in the journal BioScience, Richard B. Primack, professor of biology at Boston University; Krista L. McGuire, assistant professor of biological sciences at Barnard College, Columbia University; and Elizabeth C. Losos, adjunct professor at Duke University and president and CEO of the Organization for Tropical Studies, find that women in the field of ecological studies have experienced dramatic improvements, but persistent challenges remain.
Hormones shape our bodies, make us fertile, excite our most basic urges, and as scientists have known for years, they govern the behaviors that separate men from women. But how?
A woman’s memory of an experience is less likely to be accurate than a man’s if it was unpleasant and emotionally provocative, according to research undertaken by University of Montreal researchers at Louis-H Lafontaine Hospital.
The overall prevalence of oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is approximately 7 percent among men and women ages 14 to 69 years in the United States, while the prevalence among men is higher than among women, according to a study appearing in JAMA. The study is being released early online to coincide with its presentation at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium.
Men may be at higher risk of experiencing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or the stage of mild memory loss that occurs between normal aging and dementia, than women, according to a study published in the January 25, 2012, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
For the past decade, the Society for Women’s Health Research has advocated for sex-specific reporting of scientific research to illuminate the differences between the sexes. This persistence has finally paid off with the hotly anticipated release of the 2012 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Sex-Specific Reporting of Scientific Research: A Workshop Summary, featuring SWHR recommendations on reporting requirements.
New report from American University, "Men Rule: The Continued Under-Representation of Women in U.S. Politics," identifies why even with the emergence over the past ten years of high-profile women in politics, the gap between women and men’s interest in running for office is the same today as it was a decade ago.
An Indiana University of Pennsylvania sociologist’s study of mixed martial arts competitors found that these men have unique ways of managing fear that actually allow them to exhibit confidence.
A major study of recent international data on school mathematics performance casts doubt on some common assumptions about gender and math achievement — in particular, the idea that girls and women have less ability due to a difference in biology.
Not only are working mothers multitasking more frequently than working fathers, but their multitasking experience is more negative as well, according to a new study in the December issue of the American Sociological Review.
Pilot study shows genetic sequencing could help match patients with biomarker-driven cancer trials.
Men may think about sex more often than women do, but a new study suggests that men also think about other biological needs, such as eating and sleep, more frequently than women do, as well.
Vanderbilt University economist Joni Hersch has calculated the first measures of sexual harassment risks at work by industry, age group, and sex. Hersch finds that female workers are six times more likely than male workers to experience sexual harassment on the job. In analyzing workers' wages, Hersch finds that firms must pay workers more for exposure to the risk of sexual harassment.
A new study by a University of Iowa researcher suggests males score higher on technical aptitude tests than females because boys and men are simply more interested than girls in technical things, like taking apart a bike.
Women are settling for less and learning to live with it, according to Patricia Leavy, a sociologist, novelist and scholar of women’s issues and popular culture at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass.
Despite successful interventions to increase the numbers of women earning degrees in engineering, the field faces a problem retaining those female engineers. The main reason is unrelated to family issues, says a study done at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
This has been shown in a new study from the University of Haifa. It is possible that the differences between men and women are founded in gender socialization: 'teaching' women to respond to terrorism with more anxiety than men.
Women are less likely than men to stay in engineering majors and to become engineers because they want to have families and are more insecure about their math abilities, right? Not necessarily, suggests a new study in the October issue of the American Sociological Review.
Litigation and legislative reforms have achieved formal rights to equal treatment for women in employment. But women continue to perform disproportionate amounts of caregiving in the home, to suffer economic penalties for childbearing and to face discrimination on account of motherhood in the workplace. “The disconnect between formal equality and the deepening work-family conflict is no accident,” says Deborah Dinner, JD, legal historian and associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Dinner argues that one path toward resolving this paradox lies in history. “If you look at history, feminists had a much richer vision of sex equality,” she says. “They set out not only to achieve same treatment of men and women—formal equality—but to transform the relationship between paid employment and reproductive work in the home.”
Men are funnier than women, but only just barely and mostly to other men. So says a psychology study from the University of California, San Diego Division of Social Sciences.
Study of teens in rural California suggests that obesity has greater impact on girls.
Cardiovascular disease and other gender-specific conditions – such as menopause, pregnancy, depression, and obesity – will be explored in depth at a two day conference being sponsored by the American Physiology Society
An analysis of results of more than 40,000 screening colonoscopies finds that men have a higher rate of advanced tumors compared to women in all age groups examined, suggesting that the age that individuals should undergo an initial screening colonoscopy should be sex-specific, according to a study in the September 28 issue of JAMA.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients of different sexes and races respond differently to treatment with commonly used medications for the disease, says a new study from researchers at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
An x-ray of the abnormally large clitoris of a French bulldog revealed that it contained a baculum (or penile bone).
Stereotypes suggest women are more cooperative than men, but an analysis of 50 years of research shows that men are equally cooperative, particularly in situations involving a dilemma that pits the interests of an individual against the interests of a group.
Previous research has found that parental status reinforces a range of disparities between men and women. The remedy could be simple empathy, a UWM study suggests.
Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit say HPV is much more likely to be found in tumors of laryngeal (voice box) cancer patients who are male and those with private health insurance, a finding that could impact head and neck cancer screening and treatment.
How do unemployed men cope with their shifting domestic roles, especially when they become financially dependent on a wife or female partner? One University of Kansas researcher has investigated the impact of joblessness on masculinity and the “breadwinner ideology” within the context of traditional families.
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