133 years. That’s how long it will take to achieve full gender parity at our current pace. But can we afford to wait that long? Dr. Daphne Pillay-Naidoo, Industrial Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria, highlights the urgent need to accelerate action on gender equality in the workplace.
Francine Glaser likes to push herself – at work, at college and, for much of her early life, on the ice. From childhood into her teenage years, the Rutgers graduate student skated competitively on a national level.Â
Researchers found that exposure to sexist comments significantly alters how women interact emotionally during teamwork, increasing a key ingredient of successful collaboration: emotional synchrony. Emotional synchrony—shared, temporally aligned facial expressions among team members—has long been known to enhance trust, coordination, and performance.
Dr. Olivia Carr Edenfield, Director of the American Literature Association and Professor in the Department of English at Georgia Southern University, has been selected as the 2025 Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) – Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Awardee.
Research assistants often face unique challenges when working on emotionally intense topics, particularly if they lack established support systems outside the research team or have not yet learned effective coping strategies, according to a Rutgers Health study. The study, published in the Journal of Gender-Based Violence, surveyed 27 research assistants involved in a multistate firearm violence research project. While working on the project, research assistants read and coded graphic descriptions of gun violence.
The COVID-19 pandemic unwittingly became a huge, focused experiment in remote and flexible work. While the advantages of working away from a fixed office space were clearly prompted by the pandemic, the number of people working remotely continues to increase as the workplace changes.
People who believe that female candidates are at a disadvantage in elections are mistaken, according to two studies conducted by political scientist André Blais.
Black sexual minority men and transgender women (sexual and gender minorities; SGM) consume more alcohol on average than people in the general population.
Men in local leadership positions are unaware of gender leadership disparities and are less likely to challenge dominant stereotypes compared to women, suggests ...
Employee turnover costs U.S. businesses more than $1 trillion annually. Offering paid time off cuts quitting rates by 35%, with men seeing a 41% drop and women 28%. Flex time is just as effective as retirement plans in reducing turnover, and for women, it’s as valuable as PTO and tuition assistance. PTO costs just $2.94 per hour per employee – a small price compared to the high costs of recruitment, lost productivity, and damaged client relationships.
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More than 150 posters to be presented; counselors are available to comment on mental health topics ranging from substance use and addiction to wellness and self-care and more.
The 2025 ACA Conference & Expo, the premier professional development and networking event for professional counselors, will feature 200+ education sessions, organized across 24 mental health and counseling topic areas.
Recent research from the University of Georgia College of Public Health sheds light on the stressors female farm owners and managers face — challenges that can be overlooked in broader studies of agricultural well-being.
In a new Canadian study, 25 teens and young adults who've gone back to the gender they were assigned at birth or now identify differently say they don't think the media represent them fairly.
Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease—aortic valve stenosis—progresses differently in males and females. The research paves the way for treatments that can be tailored to a patient's biological sex.
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