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University of Virginia Study Examines Gender Differences in Recovery Time for Student-Athlete Concussions
The researchers found female student-athletes at the University of Virginia typically took six days to recover from a concussion, while male athletes took 11 days. Women were found to report a possible concussion to athletic trainers more quickly than men.
Women Still Vastly Underrepresented in Clinical Trials for Cardiovascular Drug Research
A new study, led by Leslie Cho, the director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Women’s Cardiovascular Center, has found that women remain underrepresented in cardiovascular drug and device clinical trials despite guidelines and legal requirements developed almost 30 years ago to ensure broader inclusivity.
Women Academics Are Likely to Feel Like Imposters in Fields Regarded as Needing “Brilliance” to Succeed
A new study led by psychologists at New York University finds that the more an academic discipline is perceived to require raw talent or “brilliance” for success, the more both women and early-career academics feel professionally inadequate — like “impostors”. This is particularly true for women from racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in these fields.
Report Finds Glaring Gender Disparities in NCAA Division I Basketball Tournaments
The report from an independent law firm found that “the experience of the women’s tournament participants was markedly different from and inferior to that of the men’s tournament participants. The NCAA’s organizational structure and culture prioritize men’s basketball, contributing to gender inequity . . . in large part because the vast majority of the NCAA’s current revenue comes from men’s basketball.”
Study Examines How Religion Impacts the Gender Pay Gap in the United States and Worldwide
A study by Traci Sitzmann, a professor of management at the University of Colorado Denver and Elizabeth Campbell an assistant professor in the School of Management at the University of Minnesota, finds that religion may be a significant factor in the worldwide gender pay gap. They also found that the wage gap is lower in the more secular states in the U.S.
The College Majors With the Widest Gender Disparities in Degree Attainments
The major with the great gender disparity is early childhood education. Women make up 96.2 percent of the majors in the field. Women also make up 90 percent or more of all majors in family studies and elementary education. In computer engineering, men make up 87.4 percent of all majors, the highest percentage favoring men among all the disciplines studied.
In Sports Betting, Women Bet Less Than Men But Have More Success
A recent study found that men accounted for 57 percent of all bettors but 72 percent of all dollars spent on sports betting in the United States. Furthermore, the authors found that 29.7 percent of male bettors placed more than $500 in sports bets per month, but only 12.2 percent of women bettors did.
Examining Gender Differences in Sports Participation
Researchers found that nearly one third of parents believed that boys are better at sports than girls. And parents of youth who have never played sports are more likely to believe that girls are not as competitive as boys and that sports are more important to boys than girls.
New Data Shows That Men Outperform Women on the Architect Registration Examination
For the first time, the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards has released demographic data on passage rates for its Architect Registration Examination, which is required for licensure throughout the United States. The passage rate for women was significantly lower than the rate for men on several of the six sections of the examination.
Emergency Room Patients Attended by a Woman Physician Have Lower Mortality Rates
The study included more than 100,000 patients who were admitted to a general internal medicine service through the emergency department. The study found that 4.8 percent of patients of women physicians died in the hospital. For patients who had a primary doctor who was a man, 5.2 percent died in the hospital.
American Association of University Women Examines the Gender Pay Gap and How to Eliminate It
In 2019, men had a median income of $57,456, while women had a median income of $47,299 — a wage gap of 18 percent. Based on recent progress, the AAUW report calculates that White women will reach pay parity with men by the year 2069. But for Black women, the trend suggests that they won’t reach wage parity until 2369, nearly 250 years from now.
Reported Sexual Assaults On College Campuses Continue to Increase
A new report from the U.S. Department of Education offers a detailed look at crime and safety at the nation’s schools and on college and university campuses.
UNESCO Report Finds Women Remain Far Behind Men in the High-Tech Sector
The UNESCO Science Report 2021 finds that women worldwide have made tremendous gains in the academic world but they remain far behind men in emerging fields such as data science, robotics, computing, and artificial intelligence.
A Gender Salary Gap Persists for Faculty in Some Internal Medicine Disciplines
The study found that in academic medicine specialties with greater female representation were consistently those in which all physicians had lower salaries. The widest pay discrepancy of 21 percent was in the field of cardiology.
The Gender Gap in Inventors in the Biomedical Field Impacts the Gender Focus of What Is Invented
A new study finds that patents in the biomedical field with all-female inventor teams were 35 percent more likely than all-male teams to focus on women’s health. Thus, they concluded that had male and female inventors been equally represented over the 1976 to 2010 period, there would have been an additional 6,500 more female-focused inventions.
Women Making Slow Progress on Corporate Boards, But Women Board Members Are Making an Impact
A new study by Seema Pissaris, a clinical professor of international business at Florida International University in Miami, finds that the presence of women on boards of directors brings actual change, contributing to aspects of firm strategy concerned with acquisition, allocation, and deployment of key assets and resources.
Huge Reductions in Screenings for Breast and Cervical Cancer Occurred During the Pandemic
The CDC warns that the reduction in the number of screenings may have a long-term effect on women’s health. The decline in screenings was more prevalent among, Blacks, Hispanics, and other racial/ethnic minorities and therefore may widen existing racial and ethnic health disparities.
Medical Journal Articles Authored by Women Are Cited Less Often Than Articles Authored by Men
A new study by Paula Chatterjee an assistant professor of general internal medicine and Rachel Werner, executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, finds that articles published by women in high-impact medical journals have fewer citations than those written by men, especially when women are primary and senior authors.
Study Examines Difficulties Women in STEM Fields Face When They Return From a Career Break
The survey also found that 27 percent of women returning to jobs in the STEM sector after a career break have experienced gender bias. Only 8 percent of men reported that they had been victims of gender bias after a career break. Some 30 percent of women felt they were victims of bias due to their childcare responsibilities.
Report Documents the Employment Shortfall of Women in the Tech Workforce
A new report from the Computing Technology Industry Association offers a wealth of data on employment in the technology sector. Some of the data included in the report on employment in technology jobs is broken down by gender. Nationally, women represent approximately 49 percent of the U.S. workforce and 26 percent of the workforce in tech occupations.
Why Do Many Victims of Sexual Assault on College Campuses Remain Silent?
A study, by Sandra Caron, a professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine, and Deborah Mitchell, a retired UMaine police sergeant, examines why so many women students decline to report incidents of sexual assault to the campus administration or law enforcement authorities.
Men Are More Than Two-Thirds of All Experts Quoted in a Leading Science Publication
A new study by women researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine finds that 69 percent of all direct quotes from experts quoted in articles in the publication Nature, a leading international scientific journal, were from men.
Study Examines Gender Differences in Participation in Clinical Trials Compared to Those Affected by a Disease
The authors state that clinical trial sample populations should be proportionate to the population affected by the disease, as some diseases are more prevalent or manifest differently in one sex versus the other. The study is the first to examine sex bias in all U.S. human clinical trials relative to disease burden (the prevalence of disease based on factors such as sex and ethnicity).
How Women Undergraduate Students Were Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic
A new report from the U.S. Department of Education finds that more than 86 percent of all women undergraduates reported that they had experienced enrollment disruptions due to the pandemic. Some 4.4 percent of women said they withdrew from their college or university and 3.8 percent of all women undergraduate took a leave of absence.
Oregon State University Scholars Explore How to Get More Women Students in Advanced Economic Courses
The study examined whether mass emails telling introductory economic students about promising career and earning opportunities helped increase women’s participation in higher-level economics courses. But these emails appealed more to male students, increasing male enrollment and widening the existing gender gap.
Are Campus Bystander Intervention Programs Effective in Reducing Sexual Assault?
A recent study led by Heather Hensman Kettrey, an assistant professor of sociology at Clemson University in South Carolina, finds that bystander intervention programs are not as effective as college and university administrators had hoped they would be in reducing the number of sexual assaults on campus.
Georgetown University Task Force Issues Report on Gender Equity in Faculty and Staff
As is the case with many research universities, the percentage of women faculty members drops in higher ranks. The report found similar rates of tenure, retention, and compensation. Men tended to receive higher start-up packages than women.
Academic Study Finds That Men Tend to Make More Extreme Decisions Than Women
A new study by scholars at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the University of Sydney in Australia finds that men tend to make decisions that are more on the extreme while women are more likely to make moderate decisions. The authors note that the more extreme decisions of men can result in both positive and negative outcomes.
Depression Among Pregnant Women Spiked at the Onset of the Pandemic
For the study, Stanford researchers assessed pregnant women both before and after coronavirus-triggered lockdowns took effect in March 2020. In the pre-pandemic group, one in four women showed signs of possible depression. In the post-pandemic group, that figure jumped to more than half of the women surveyed.
Investigative Report Documents Women’s Experiences at the Virginia Military Institute
The Virginia Military Institute enrolled its first women cadets enrolled in 1997. Today, women make up only 14 percent of the student body. A new report finds that sexual assault; incidents of gender inequity; a culture of not taking women seriously; double standards for women on matters of dress, social behavior, and sexual behavior are all problems on campus.
University of Massachusetts Study Analyzes Pregnancy Discrimination Cases in the United States
Only 8 percent of pregnancy discrimination charges lead to both a monetary benefit for the charging party and some negotiated change in workplace managerial practices. The most startling finding is that employers who were accused of discrimination often fire women employees the same day they learn they are pregnant.
Baylor University Scholar’s Risk Reduction Intervention Aims to Help Young Women in the Juvenile Justice System
Young women involved in the juvenile justice system are 3.5 times more likely to have a child compared to non-delinquent youth and 30 percent have been pregnant one or more times. Additionally, this population experiences high rates of marijuana and alcohol use as well as high rates of sexually transmitted infections.
Catching Perpetrators of Groping Sexual Assaults
For the past 10 years, Julie Valentine, a professor of nursing at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, has been at the forefront of making touch DNA evidence collection a standard practice in groping cases. She has created a standard form for sexual assault medical examiners to collect touch DNA evidence from survivors’ skin and clothing.
New Census Study Examines Gender Differences in Healthy Life Expectancy After Age 60
For women in the Americas who reach the age of 60, they can expect another 17.7 years of living healthy. For men who reach 60, they can expect another 15.5 years of a healthy lifestyle. The gender gap in healthy lifestyle for those who reach age 60 appears to be widening.
Study Examines Media Coverage of Teachers’ Sexual Misconduct With Students
When the teacher was a woman, respondents perceived the relationship to be less detrimental to the student. Heterosexual pairings were perceived as more acceptable than same-sex pairings and when the teacher was older, respondents perceived the teacher as more responsible.
