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Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have compared internet use and frequency in Spain with the rest of the 31 European countries. Their results suggest that Spanish women use the internet less frequently and the usage gap in Spain between men and women is higher than average. Juan Martín Fernandez, researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid and co-author of the study that was published in the Reis journal, states that "Spanish men and women score lower than...

New approach supports families dealing with 'normal diversity' of gender identity and expression How should parents respond when their four years old son insists on wearing girls' clothes, or their daughter switches to using a male version of their name? These are the questions increasingly being asked of family therapist Jean Malpas who writes in Family Process about a new approach to support parents with gender nonconforming and transgender children. Jean Malpas, the Director of the...

Student BMJ: Is medicine a woman's world? In the UK, women doctors are set to outnumber their male counterparts by 2017. The press has dubbed the rise "worrying" and "bad for medicine" but in an editorial published by Student BMJ today, Maham Khan asks is medicine becoming overfeminized and is having too many female doctors bad practice? Jane Dacre, Medical School Director at University College London, believes feminization is a fact, but disagrees that medicine is becoming...

FOREST LAKE, Minn., Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In his newly revised (November 2011) book Save the Males, author Richard Doyle describes how modernism has negatively affected Western civilization, the family, children and especially males. Recognized as one of the original men's rights movement founders, Doyle has written books and pamphlets on gender issues, published The Liberator newsmagazine for over 20 years, and has appeared on radio and TV shows. His views on gender...

Swedish teachers are conflict averse, and consequently stubborn parents often get their way. Teaching the emergence of life sometimes is like serving a smorgasbord. Religious creationism is presented alongside the theory of evolution. Students get to decide for themselves what to believe, this is shown by research at the University of Gothenburg. This is one of the conclusions reached in Fredrik Sjögren's doctoral thesis Negotiated Power. Cultural Value Conflicts in Swedish Compulsory...

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. And the research discredits the persistent stereotype that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours. In the study, the median number of young men’s thought about sex stood at almost 19 times per day. Young women in the study...

Study finds that gender differences in overconfidence concerning individual past performance explains a significant proportion of the lack of female leadership in organizations A study conducted by Columbia Business School's Prof. Ernesto Reuben, Assistant Professor, Management, alongside Pedro Rey-Biel, Associate Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Paola Sapienza, Associate Professor, Professor of Finance, Northwestern University, and Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Drew Chafetz, founder and CEO of Love.Futbol, stopped by Focus Washington to discuss the group's accomplishments and future plans with host Chuck Conconi. The non-profit organization mobilizes communities in South and Central America to spearhead soccer field building projects in order to create safe playing spaces for children. During the interview, Chafetz explained that there is a basic need for safe playing fields...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study by USC Annenberg researchers Stacy Smith, Marc Choueiti and Stephanie Gall surveys the top 100 grossing movies of 2009 and shows Hollywood's addiction to films that marginalize and sexualize women is as strong as ever. The study, "Gender Inequality in Popular Films," can be found here (PDF). Perhaps most troubling were the findings about young teen characters. Professor Smith and her research team of undergraduate...

Whether comparing a man and a woman or a parent and a baby, we can still see when two people of different age or sex are genetically related. How do we know that people are part of a family? Findings from a new study published in the Journal of Vision increases our understanding of the brain's ability to see through these underlying variations in facial structure. "Being able to see the family resemblance between faces that have some underlying difference, such as the difference between...