All Entries in the "Research/Study" Category
Why Are Women College Students More Likely Than Their Male Peers to Fall on Stairs?
A new study led by scholars at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, presents somewhat surprising results, showing that young college-age women are among the most likely to suffer injuries from falling on stairs. Among this group, 80 percent of the injuries from falls on stairs occur among women.
University Study Finds a Narrowing of the Gender Gap in Alcohol Related Deaths
Previous research has shown that women are drinking more, engaging in more high-risk drinking, and increasingly developing alcohol-use disorders. But a new study, led by Ibraheem M. Karaye, an assistant professor of population health, and director of the health science program at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, finds a sharp rise in alcohol-related deaths among women.
Gender Differences in Financial Aid Awards
Despite the fact that women were more likely than men to receive grants, on average women received lower amounts. The average grant given to women was $8,900 compared to $9,700 for men. The average loan amounts were nearly equal for men and women students.
Women of Color Are Scarce in STEM Higher Education and the Workforce
A new report from The Education Trust shows that vast disparities in attainment by race, ethnicity, and gender persist in STEM education and employment, thereby limiting access and opportunities for social and economic mobility for some — particularly women and people of color.
The Persisting Gender Gap in Weekly Earnings
A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the median weekly earnings of the nation’s 121.5 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,100 in the second quarter of 2023. But there is a persisting gender gap in earnings. Women had median weekly earnings of $993, or 84.1 percent of the $1,181 median for men.
Study Debunks a Commonly Help Belief About Victims of Rape
If a victim freezes or does not attempt to resist during a sexual assault, perpetrators often claim there was passive acquiescence. A new study presents neuroscientific evidence that counters that misconception. Many survivors of sexual assault report ‘freezing’ during an assault. The researchers argue that this is an involuntary response to a threat that can prevent a victim from actively resisting.
Study Finds That Throughout Their Careers Women Continue to Face Age Discrimination
Researchers surveyed 913 women leaders in higher education, faith-based nonprofits, law, and healthcare. They found that there is “no right age” for professional women. The authors conclude that “we found no age was the right age to be a woman leader. There was always an age-based excuse to not take women seriously, to discount their opinions, or to not hire or promote them.”
The Marriage and Divorce Rates of American Women Have Dropped in the Past Decade
In 2021, the U.S. marriage rate was 14.9 marriages in the last year per 1,000 women, down from 16.3 a decade earlier. And the 2021 divorce rate dropped to 6.9 in the last year from 9.7 divorces per 1,000 women in 2011.
Women on Inventor Teams Can Produce Products of Greater Value
A recent study by scholars at Emory University in Atlanta, the University of California, Riverside, and the University of Vienna in Austria, challenges a long-held finding in academic literature that the presence of women on company invention teams results in products of lesser value than inventions produced by teams that consist only of men.
Women Are Slower Than Men on the Path From Mentored to Independent Research in the Biomedical Sciences
Researchers examined the percentage of men and women who received National Institute of Health early career awards which included a mentored component over a 10-year period. They then looked at how many of these men and women received R01-equivalent awards (a class of grants that fund specific research projects and provide around $500,000 per year for multiple years) over the next 10-year period. Women trailed men in the transition to the more significant grants.
Simple and Inexpensive Interventions Can Save Women’s Lives in Rural America
Researchers from Indiana University and Ohio State University recruited women from rural Indiana and Ohio who were not up to date on any or all recommended cancer screenings. Some were mailed a DVD and others also received follow-up counseling. Women who got the DVD were twice as likely as women who did not get the DVD to obtain the recommended screenings. Women who got the DVD and then were telephoned by counselors were six times as likely to get the recommended screenings.
Women May Bear the Brunt of Job Losses as a Result of Artificial Intelligence
A new study by researchers at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that women may have a greater likelihood of losing their jobs due to artificial intelligence than men. The analysis finds that eight out of 10 women in the U.S. workforce are in occupations highly exposed to generative AI automation.
The Gender Gap in Rates of Death During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The data shows that in 2019 before the onset of the pandemic, 1,381,015 women died in the United States. In 2020, when the pandemic took hold, 1,613,845 women died. This was an increase of 16.9 percent. The number of death for men in the United States in 2020 increased by 20.1 percent compared to the year before.
Survey Finds Sexual Assaults on College Campuses Are Rarely Reported to the Proper Authorities
A new survey conducted by Vector Solutions, a company that produces sexual violence risk-management training materials for higher educational institutions, finds that only 6 percent of victims of sexual assault notify campus or local police authorities. Some 7 percent reported the assault to a campus administrator and only 3 percent went to an on-campus crisis center.
Women Continue to Face Bias When Seeking Employment in the Tech Industry
A new study by Hired, an online job placement firm based in New York City, finds that women continue to face bias when seeking employment in the tech industry. The survey found that in 38 percent of the jobs posted for tech jobs, only men were sent interview requests for the positions.
A Snapshot of the School Enrollment of Girls and Women in the United States
In 2021, women made up a larger percentage of college and graduate students than was the case at all other lower grades of education. Women were 48.4 percent of all high school students but 55.4 percent of all undergraduate college students and 59.5 percent of all students in graduate schools
Study Finds Widespread Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine
A new study led by Reshma Jagsi, chair of the department of radiation oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, finds that women are disproportionately affected by workplace mistreatment in academic medicine, and this mistreatment negatively impacts their mental health.
Stanford University Study Finds a Gender Gap in Academic Authors Who Get to Share in Patents
New research undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of Stanford Law and Stanford Medicine students, looks at the overlap between biomedical research paper authors and those authors who go on to be named inventors of their research on patents. Among the findings is a gender discrepancy between male and female authors, with male authors receiving patents more frequently.
Women Making Progress as College and University Presidents: But Still a Long Way to Go
A new report from the American Council on Education finds that college and university presidents in the United States remain older, White, and male. Women made up 32.8 percent of all college and university presidents in 2022. The good news is that progress is being made. In 2011, women were 26.4 percent of all presidents.
Little Progress in Advancing Women in STEM Jobs in the Federal Workforce
The researchers found that on average, fewer than one in four STEM jobs were held by women in the Air Force, Army, Navy, the departments of Energy and Transportation, and NASA. Women account for less than 30 percent of STEM jobs in the departments of Veterans Affairs, State, Interior, Homeland Security, Defense, and Commerce.
A Snapshot of Gender Disparities in Legal Education
In 2022, 68 percent of women applicants who applied to law school were accepted to at least one law school. In contrast, 71 percent of all male applicants were accepted to a law school. Women made up 56 percent of all law school enrollments.
The Gender Gap in Leadership Positions at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities
A new report from the EOS Foundation finds that women now lead 30 percent of all R1 research universities in the United States. This is up from 22 percent just two years ago. Between September 2021 and May 2023, half of the newly appointed presidents were women.
Study Finds That Altering Gender-Based Language in Job Postings Does Little to Attract More Women
A lack of gender diversity in job applicants might be due to factors like the gender-typing of occupations or a perception of a particular firm’s culture as more masculine. Employers or organizations should be aware of the information that’s already out there, the authors state. This information is shaping the search behavior of job seekers.
Report Finds Significant Access to Online Pornography by Teenagers, Both Girls and Boys
A recent report from Common Sense Media shows an alarming percentage of teenagers and pre-teens view pornography online. And it is not only boys who are accessing pornography. Three quarters of all boys said they had viewed online pornography, only slightly higher than the rate for girls which was 70 percent.
A Snapshot of the Gender Diversity of the Faculty at Johns Hopkins University
The university reports that in 2021, there were more than 2,400 women faculty at the university. They made up 46 percent of the more than 5,200 faculty members. In 2015, women were 42 percent of all faculty at Johns Hopkins. There were 340 women full professors. They made up 28.1 percent of all full professors.
Study Finds Beauty Pageants Can Foster Unhealthy Behaviors in Teenage Girls in Winners’ States
Researchers examined which states won the Miss America and Miss USA pageants during the 1990s and early 2000s. They found that winning states experienced increases in pageant-related media coverage and Google searches following the competition, compared with non-winning states. Teenage girls in those states then some an increase ni unhealthy behaviors.
The Far-Reaching Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women
A new study by researchers at the Duke Medical School found that during the pandemic, women aged 20-40 years old in the southern United States experienced an increase in mental health challenges, tighter budgets, and exercised less.
The Widening Gender Gap in College Aspirations
A new survey by YouthTruth looks at the college plans of the high school class of 2023. Some 77 percent of female high school seniors believe they will actually enroll in college. For males, only 57 percent thought they would actually enroll. That’s a 20 percentage point gender gap among college seniors who think they will enroll in college.
The Huge Gender Gap Among Recipients of Lasker Awards
A new study by scientists at several major U.S. medical schools found that among the 397 Lasker Award recipients since 1946, 92.2 percent were men and 7.8 percent were women. The number of women in academic medicine and biomedical research continues to increase, yet the proportion of women among Lasker Award recipients has not changed in more than 70 years.
How Artificial Intelligence Can Narrow the Gender Gap in STEM Fields
A new study by researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, finds that the use of artificial intelligence in recruitment changes the gender distribution of potential hires, in some cases more than doubling the fraction of top applicants that are women.
Study Says Claims of Gender Bias in Academic Science Are Overblown
The authors from Cornell University and Boston University note that “in the most prestigious journals and media outlets, which influence many people’s opinions about sexism, bias is frequently portrayed as an omnipresent factor limiting women’s progress in the tenure-track academy.” They set out to see if this was indeed the case.
Would Paid Paternity Leave Achieve More Progressive Views on Gender Equality?
In Estonia a new parental leave policy extended fathers’ leave threefold for children born on or after July 1, 2020. It had a measurable effect. New parents were significantly more likely to express support for gender equality in the social and economic spheres than those who had children before the policy took effect.
Are Women Leaders Less Likely Than Men to Be Blamed for Bad Performance
The authors found that evaluators blame the negative results obtained by male leaders on their selfish decisions. Bad performances by women leaders are more likely to be attributed to bad luck. But the authors say this may not be a good thing.
A Study of 1.3 Million Grant Applications Worldwide Finds a Substantial Gender Gap In Research Funding
Women researchers received substantially less funding in grant awards than men — an average of about $342,000 compared to men’s $659,000, according to a large meta-analysis of studies led by Karen Schmaling, a psychology professor at Washington State University, Vancouver.
Boosting Women in STEM Fields in College Will Not Fully Close the Gender Gap in the STEM Workforce
In a study of 2.4 million college graduates between 2015 and 2019, Cornell University researchers found that 36 percent of the gender segregation seen among college-educated workers is tied to their undergraduate degrees. The rest is attributable to labor market factors, potentially ranging from discrimination to family leave policies, that may sort men and women into different types of jobs even when they have the same degree.
