This paper aims to analyse and further capture nuances of gender representation in local political decision-making bodies, focusing on implications for transport policy. Since is highly relevant both attitudes towards policy as well votes, data the colour executives (members presidiums) transport-related committees, councils, boards analysed. The study aimed at level, since municipal decisions ...

More men are studying and working in science fields than women. This could be an effect of the prevalence of gender stereotypes (e.g., science is for men, not for women). Aside from the media and people's social lives, such stereotypes can also occur in education. Ways in which stereotypes are visible in education include the use of gender-biased visuals, language, teaching methods, and teacher...

A proper use of the terms sex and gender, whether the concepts are used heuristically or operationally, requires that the terms have clear, distinct definitions. Gender has no such definition. King (11) offers three not entirely consistent definitions. The first definition is that gender is a social construction limited to “social, cultural and psychological aspects that pertain to the traits, ...

Although inflectional morphology has been the focus of considerable debate in recent years, most research has focused on English, which has a much simpler inflectional system than in many other languages. We have been studying Serbian, which has a complex inflectional system that encodes gender, number, and case. The present study investigated the representation of gender. In standard theories ...

Women, on average, outnumber men and are more successful in higher education. A literature overview showed that these differences may be explained by gender differences in learner characteristics, by external factors and by institutional factors. This study aims to explain gender differences in higher education in more detail by focusing on one of the recent research findings in this area: the ...