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Women's earnings -- DROP after childbirth, study finds
When U.S. couples have their first child, mothers' earnings still -- DROP substantially relative to fathers', and new research demonstrates the stubborn, decades-old pattern …
Women seen as happy and men as angry despite real emotions
Faces and voices are more likely to be judged as male when they are angry, and as female when they are happy, new research …
Those who ogle also more likely to have harmful attitudes, study finds
New research examining 'eye gaze behavior' has found that looking at people's bodies, rather than their faces, is linked with harmful attitudes towards sexual …
Married mothers who earn more than their husbands take on an even greater share of the housework, research finds
While new mothers frequently take on a greater share of housework than their spouses, this effect is even more pronounced in mothers who earn …
Study points to strategies for closing the participation gender gap in engineering courses
Students' identities can play a key role in how comfortable they feel and how often they speak up in the classroom, especially in STEM …
The ‘equal-opportunity jerk’ defense: Rudeness can obfuscate gender bias
If you're an 'equal-opportunity jerk,' does that mean you can't also be sexist? New research shows that many people think so -- and consider …