Gender Gap

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• The degree gap

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 600
  If You Thought the “Degree Gap” Was High Here , check out the female-male education gap in Canada, writes Carpe Diem. University of Alberta President Indira Samarasekera is under attack for saying that too few men are earning degrees. “We’ll wake up in 20 years and we will not have the benefit of enough male ...
  12 hours ago

• World Leaders: Are You Hot or Not?

  
  The Downtown Women's Club womensDISH blog — Authority: 121
  Im sure ranking heads of state by their "hotness" factor is so wrong on so many levels, esp. when one includes the Pope, but I couldnt let the Hottest Heads of State website go by without comment. Not only was...
  2 days ago

• Beauty Pageants: Bridging The Gap Between The Genders?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 580
  Humans are a vain and conceited species so it is no wonder that beauty remains one of the most discussed topics the world over. Though it is often said that beauty and brains rarely exist together, there are a lot of instances where people attempt to disprove this theory; perhaps the most famous of these are beauty ...
  4 days ago

• The Visibility Problem for Female CEOs

  
  The Downtown Women's Club womensDISH blog — Authority: 121
  Just read an interesting article about the problem of visibility and female CEOs. The Harvard Business Review blog brought up some good points, some of which counter what I thought was conventional wisdom, i.e. that women are only asked to...
  5 days ago

• Laura Dekker Unjustly Detained Imprisoned Transported

  
  Irresponsibility — Authority: 109
  Posted by Irresponsibilty Expert Dutch sailor Laura Dekker has been forcibly and unjustly detained in Venezuela, and is being transported back to the Netherlands to be questioned by police. Her crime? Being a 14-year-old girl with a burning ambition to sail around the world. When teenage boys express a ...
  5 days ago

• Committee Investigates Gender Bias in Maryland Schools

  
  Edu in Review Blog — Authority: 126
  Several colleges and universities in Maryland are facing allegations that they are discriminating college applicants based on gender. The Commission on Civil Rights required six colleges in Maryland to show their admission records to the committee. This is part of an investigation of more than 20 schools across the ...
  5 days ago

• Men Dont Promote Women Because They Dress Too Sexy?

  
  The Downtown Women's Club womensDISH blog — Authority: 121
  Just finished reading this article on Forbes.com by Shaun Rein about Why Men Dont Promote Women. The author gives women two tips to help change this. First, ask for the promotion. Second, stop dressing sexy. Now, I was on board...
  1 week ago

• Computer ‘geekiness’ turns off girls

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 600
  Girls are turned off to computer science by a “geeky” image , research suggests. (In one experiment) about 40 male and female students entered a small classroom that either contained objects stereotypically associated with computer science, such as Star Trek posters, video game boxes and Coke cans, or ...
  1 week ago

• Boy Mystery: Update

  
  The Education Optimists — Authority: 466
  Just a quick update -- The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has released the list of colleges and universities it plans to investigate for giving preference to men in admissions: Catholic University of America Georgetown Gettysburg Goldey-Beacom Goucher College Howard Johns Hopkins Lincoln University (Pa.) Loyola ...
  1 week ago

• Pink and the brain

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 552
  Okay, first the photo at right. My sister Irene and me, circa some year I prefer not to reveal. I am about seven years old. The dress I am wearing, which came with a matching coat. It was a gift from my childless Aunt Phyllis and Uncle Jimmy who lived in the US who would frequently visit us bearing all sorts of ...
  1 week ago

• School Separates Boys and Girls

  
  Teachhub Education Blog — Authority: 126
  The debate continues at TeachHUB with the Hot Topic article: Single-Sex Schools: A Return to Sex Segregation?
  2 weeks ago

• The So-Called Boy Mystery

  
  The Education Optimists — Authority: 466
  The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently announced that it would investigate whether some colleges are discriminating against women in an effort to generate a more gender-diverse student population. Reaction was mixed, with some saying its about time that the "crisis with boys" in higher education is ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to get South Asian women mobile access, and how not

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 436
  We are always happy when people use our research . Happier when we are mentioned as the source too. We thank the writer and/or the source for attributing the results to us. While there is no separate data on the number of female subscribers in the country, according to a recent Lirneasia Teleuse Survey (a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Video: mixed school learning

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  What is it like learning in a school where only one third of the pupils are girls?
  3 weeks ago

• Girls in a girls school

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  What learning in a single-sex environment means for girls in one London school
  3 weeks ago

• Reaching out to young black men | Piers Linney

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  Role models within the Reach programme are helping disaffected black teenagers gain confidence in their futures A year ago today, the government launched its role-model initiative to raise the aspirations and achievements of young black British men. The Reach report , which preceded it and recommended the scheme, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ms. CEO: A Rare Commodity

  
  College Candy — Authority: 665
  Working on Fifth Avenue at New York City is nothing short of glamorous. Every day, I walk to work on one of NYC’s most famous streets, cutting through Central park, walking by the Plaza, passing Saks and finally entering the headquarters of one of the largest beauty companies in the world to work on photoshoots ...
  3 weeks ago

• Are co-ed or single-sex lessons best?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Co-ed schools are increasingly keen to teach their boys and girls separately, according to one Cambridge academic. But is this really a good idea? Yes Dr Chris Nicholls is headteacher of Moulsham high school, a comprehensive in Chelmsford, Essex, with 1,600 pupils aged between 11-18. My school started ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don’t Let The Gays!

  
  Irresponsibility — Authority: 109
  Posted by Irresponsibility Generic ex-American Idoler Adam Lambert is — oooh! Shock! Horror! — g-a-y. And when he performed at the American Music Awards he (Shock! Horror!) kissed a man as part of his routine. Homophobia is easily America’s favourite phobia, which is depressing but predictable. It far ...
  4 weeks ago

• Global Gender Report Reveals Bryn Mawr’s Biases

  
  The Bi-College News Online — Authority: 127
  by Wajeeha Mohsin  Out of 134 countries, Iceland claimed the top spot on the Global Gender Report 2009, while Yemen came out at the bottom. In an online survey asking Bryn Mawr students where they expected countries to rank regarding gender inequity, about a third of the nearly 100 Mawrtyrs who responded said that ...
  4 weeks ago

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