A team of economic and business researchers from Southeast University, in China, University College London and Queen Mary University of London in the U.K. has found what they describe as the academic equivalent of a Great ...
The 2024 Paris Olympics mark the first gender-equitable Olympic Games in history, with equal numbers of men and women athletes. Audiences today are being exposed to the phenomenal accomplishments of women athletes more than ...
Social Sciences
Aug 9, 2024
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In studying social mobility in today's industrialized nations, researchers typically rely on data from the World Economic Forum or, in the United States, the General Social Survey. But examining the same phenomena from past ...
Archaeology
Jan 19, 2024
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The network of informal ties we build in the workplace is key to our success and performance. Yet, as researchers at ESMT Berlin found, we often build networks that hamper our performance.
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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It's 2022 and women in science are still less likely than their male peers to be hired and promoted. Women are less likely to be mentored by eminent faculty, they publish in less prestigious journals, have fewer collaborators, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2022
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A study of 2,329 academic journals has found that, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer manuscripts were submitted by women than by men, and this gender gap was especially prominent in the medical field and ...
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2021
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Married men who don't help out around the house tend to bring home bigger paychecks than husbands who play a bigger role on the domestic chores front.
Economics & Business
Jun 10, 2021
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Running a successful business has its challenges, but the COVID-19 pandemic has required many owners to pivot and look for new ways to operate profitably while keeping employees and consumers safe. Research from the Indiana ...
Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2021
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Many people, including educators, believe learning styles are set at birth and predict both academic and career success even though there is no scientific evidence to support this common myth, according to new research published ...
Education
May 30, 2019
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What matters more to a scientist's career success: where they currently work, or where they got their Ph.D.? It's a question a team of researchers teases apart in a new paper published in PNAS. Their analysis calls into question ...
Social Sciences
Apr 29, 2019
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