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Gender Culture and Gender Gap in Employment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure culture by building two indices: one based on individual attitudes, as done in the existing literature; one based on firms’ attitudes. Firms’ beliefs, which express their set of ideas, values and norms, though generally neglected, are
Paola Profeta +4 more
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Reproductive Health, 2021 Plain language summary Adolescent girls face a range of challenges that may compromise their chances of completing school or their sexual and reproductive health.
Karen Austrian +3 more
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Impact of sex and gender on COVID-19 outcomes in Europe
Biology of Sex Differences, 2020 Background Emerging evidence from China suggests that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is deadlier for infected men than women with a 2.8% fatality rate being reported in Chinese men versus 1.7% in women.
C. Gebhard +4 more
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Gender differences in health-related quality of life following total laryngectomy [PDF]
, 2010 Background: The impact of a total laryngectomy on an individual's life has primarily been measured from a male viewpoint reflecting the demographics of a diagnosis of laryngeal cancer.
Gibson, S., Hilari, K., Lee, M. T.
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COVID‐19 and the gender gap in work hours
Gender, Work & Organization, 2020 School and day care closures due to the COVID‐19 pandemic have increased caregiving responsibilities for working parents. As a result, many have changed their work hours to meet these growing demands.
Caitlyn Collins +3 more
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Mimetic Machines in the Uncanny Valley
Identities, 2021 Uncanny valley (不 気 味 の 谷 ) is a notion introduced by the Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori in 1970. The basic claim of his hypothesis states that the anthropomorphic machines cause uncanny effect due to their imperfect resemblance to the human ...
Identities Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture +1 more
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‘Stranger Danger’ and the Gendered/Racialised Construction of Threats in Humanitarianism
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021 Humanitarian, development and peacebuilding work has become increasingly dangerous in recent decades. The securitisation of aid has been critiqued, alongside the racialised and gendered dynamics of security provision for aid actors.
Megan Daigle +2 more
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Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014 Sex differences in medicine include sex-specific diseases occurring only in one sex and sex-related diseases that are more common to one sex. Indeed differences in incidence, presentation, and course of disease between males and females are common. Eye disease is no exception. According to the WHO website, “In every region of the world and at all ages,
Janet L. Davis +3 more
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Effects of chronic browsing on life‐history traits of an irruptive large herbivore population
Population Ecology, EarlyView.This study aimed to determine the relationship between diet quality, body mass, and size (hind foot length), and female reproduction and sought to identify the mechanism by which high density under severe food limitations is maintained. Our results demonstrated that sika deer introduced to Nakanoshima Island have maintained high densities through high ...
Koichi Kaji +9 more
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Error response test system and method using test mask variable [PDF]
, 2006 An error response test system and method with increased functionality and improved performance is provided. The error response test system provides the ability to inject errors into the application under test to test the error response of the application
Gender, Thomas K.
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