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13 hours ago · The ostensible goals for this education often shared a similar commitment to the training of good wives and mothers in order to improve the familial morals of colonized territories. In reality, the nature of girls’ schooling was far more complex and played in particular into broader political debates about the role of education in the development of enlightened female subjects and later ...
1 day ago · 36% of university students lie, men lie more than women (55% to 38%, respectively), when expecting to be distrusted, groups lie even less than the composite of their individual members because ...
4 days ago · Doing What You Love Doesn’t Always Pay for Women. Women and men have long sorted into different academic fields and occupations. New research from Yale SOM’s Adriana Germano shows how the seemingly gender-neutral advice to “follow your passions” helps explain the gender gap in lucrative STEM fields. Sean David Williams. Adriana Germano.
1 day ago · Here are five key things to know about women and sport: 1. Women’s sport is growing. For the first time in Olympic history, women athletes will have as many places in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as male athletes. This achievement shows the extraordinary trajectory of women’s sport since the first modern games featuring female athletes in ...
5 days ago · Rather than accepting Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, in which women had perceived deficiencies in moral thinking, Gilligan developed her own psychological theory. She suggested that women make moral decisions using a different framework than men.
3 days ago · Authors, female and male, have always relished telling women what to do. This plentiful advice literature prescribes proper behavior for women at every stage of their lives. Nineteenth-century books on girlhood stress obedience and filial devotion as they point the way to the adult “woman's sphere” where
21 hours ago · Still a way to go. But there are some caveats to the good news. First, the increased proportion of women in parliament is due to a change in governing party. Labour has 46.1% women within its ...
