The paper is dedicated to guaranteeing the prohibition of discrimination on grounds sex and gender. guarantee non-discriminatory harassment one separate instruments anti-discrimination law. According its formal structure, it represents a special form direct discrimination. written by method from general individual. In addition theoretical (where we explained concept sexual violence concrete dif...

—Selection will favor males that can bias mating attempts towards more desirable females if the benefits of choosiness outweigh the costs of discrimination. Males that coexist with asexual and/or parasitically castrated females may benefit from discriminatory mating behavior because copulations with these females will not result in offspring that are related to the male. An example of a natural...

Examples are given of how the widespread learning processes of sexual imprinting, song learning and song preference learning may affect the evolutionary processes of sexual selection and speciation in birds. They show that sexual imprinting may occur together with perceptual biases, giving rise to preferences for mates with exaggerated traits. Sexual imprinting may also give rise to exaggeratio...

Forty-four women and three men who were plaintiffs in sexual harassment and sexual discrimination cases were evaluated by experts for the plaintiffs and by the author, an expert in these cases, for the defense. There were considerable differences in the diagnostic assessments. Some reasons for these differences and their implications for forensic evaluations are discussed.

This article focuses on a politics arena that has been articulated through the impact of ideals of sexual rights on Brazilian sexual politics, namely the affirmation of “LGBT rights”. These rights have been constructed both through attempts to extend civil and social rights to the LGBT population that were previously restricted to heterosexuals, and by the enactment of provisions directly banni...

OBJECTIVE To analyze experiences of heterosexual Mexican people living with HIV (PLWHA) related to the exercise of their sexual and reproductive rights. MATERIAL AND METHODS Qualitative study based on 40 in-depth interviews with PLWHA in four Mexican States. RESULTS Lack of support and counseling limits the exercise of sexual and reproductive rights by PLWHA, especially women. Principal lim...

Compare to western cultures, women who smoke in Korea are not tolerated. Korean people are prejudiced against women smoking. In spite of the relative prevalence of sexual equality in South Korea, women too often feel obliged to confine their smoking to only a few public spaces, such as designated smoking rooms, coffee shops or pubs. Korean Confucianism classifies people according to gender and ...

Intralocus sexual conflict occurs when populations segregate for alleles with opposing fitness consequences in the two sexes. This form of selection is known to be capable of maintaining genetic and fitness variation in nature, the extent of which is sensitive to the underlying genetics. We present a one-locus model of a haploid maternal effect that has sexually antagonistic consequences for of...

Article history: This research examines the Received 6 December 2007 Received in revised form 4 November 2008 Accepted 16 December 2008 Available online 3 January 2009

Pairs of carefully-matched, written applications were made to advertised job vacancies in England to test for sexual discrimination in hiring. Two standard résumés were constructed for each occupation to control for all relevant supply-side variables, such as qualifications, experience and age. Consequently any differential response recorded can be attributed to demand-side discrimination. Stat...