Feminine hygiene products and menstruation education have transformed the lives of women throughout the world. The P&G Feminine Care Clinical Innovation Research Program has played a key role by expanding scientific knowledge as well as developing technical insights and tools for the development of feminine hygiene products. The aim has been to meet the needs of women throughout their life stag...

Abstract This paper examines whether women’s attitudes toward environmental innovation are impacted by their individual differences in skills, expertise, experience, and technical knowledge, as well visibility legitimacy on boards. Using the categorization of directors developed Hillman et al (J Manag Stud 37(2):235–256, 2000) a dataset including largest non-financial Spanish-listed entities re...

The current study aimed to examine the role of type honour endorsement (masculine, feminine, family, moral integrity) in tolerance intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) Sri Lanka. Three hundred and sixty-two Lankan participants completed an online questionnaire. Results revealed that feminine masculine were positively associated with, integrity was negatively IPVAW. also showed men mo...

While conducting doctoral research in social science on late motherhood, two analytical engagements with the feminine came to my attention as evidence of a patriarchal bias toward the realm of womanhood. Jung's mythopoetic tension between symbolism and enactments with the feminine and Freud's supposition that a denial of the feminine was necessary for psychological and emotional development app...

Developmental research has been limited by a narrow concept of stereotypes. A more complex model is presented, and developmental changes in gender stereotypes were investigated using the new model. In 2 studies, children were told about several sex-unspecified children, each described as having 1 masculine or 1 feminine characteristic. The children then predicted the likelihood of each story ch...

While normative Hebrew distinguishes between atem/hem ‘you/they-msc-plural’ and aten/hen ‘you/they-fem-plural’, many current speakers use the masculine forms for both feminine and masculine plural referents, and it has been claimed that the masculine/feminine distinction has disappeared from the spoken language (Borochovsky Bar-Aba 2002). However, corpus examination shows many cases where the s...

The impact of exposure to media representations of aggressive, attractive, female protagonists on audiences' gender role expectations for women was explored through a laboratory experiment with 122 undergraduates from a large university on the west coast of the United States. Participants viewed a segment of a major Hollywood motion picture that featured a female protagonist who was either high...