This study examines the impacts of social comparison processes on men and women to investigate any potential gender differences by utilizing survey research (N D 134). This study also investigates the different impacts of magazine and television social comparison processes on men’s and women’s body perceptual gap and body satisfaction. Last, this study tests the validity of a new scale based on...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate mental health in temporomandibular disorders (tmd) patients considering: gender, age, and grade of chronic pain scales (gcps). materials and methods: the data were collected using general health questionnaire (ghq-28) for evaluating mental health and research diagnostic criteria for tmd for evaluating gcps, age, and gender from 75 tmd patient ...

Cognitive function during short-term abstinence from opioid dependence: a comparison to age, Title: gender, and verbal intelligence matched controls

Much research in the study of U.S. politics has argued that female candidates for elected office are treated differently—and often worse—than male candidates in the press and by the public. Although these patterns do not doom women to electoral failure, they raise a formidable series of obstacles that often complicate women’s path to elective office, slowing the move toward gender parity in rep...

This article discusses an under-researched group and provides an analytical overview of the comparative experiences of African, Indian and Coloured doctors at South African universities during the apartheid era. It probes diversity of experience in training and practice as well as gendered differentiation amongst black students before going on to discuss the careers and political activism of bl...

across Eastern Europe, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa, scholars have begun to explore how democratic changes affect women. Like other analyses of gender and the state (Brush 2003; Eisenstein 1988; MacKinnon 1989; Orloff 1996; Pateman 1988), these studies examine how states create and govern gender relations among their citizens through institutions, laws, and legal discourses (Jaquette a...