While women's representation in STEM fields has increased over the past several decades, some have seen a greater increase participation than others. In present research, we explore how disciplines influences labeling of those as hard vs. soft sciences. Study 1 found that increasing perceived women discipline likelihood participants would label it science. 2 among people who did not work scienc...

the objective of the paper is to analyzethe impact of gender on media usage, and the preference and precedence given to various types of this media and their contents, in iranian society. most of the relevant studies concentrate on representation, reception analysis and on the norms of women’s favorite genres. in general, gender plays a determining role in the use of different media sources and...

abstract living today in modern societies is full of advertising messages. this messages in the form of diverse and numerous affect everyday and working life of people. one of the most challenging subjects in the advertising is the representation of women in advertising and commercial promotions a large part of representations in advertisements depict women in their role as cultural stereotypes...

The authors propose 2 categories of situational moderators of gender in negotiation: situational ambiguity and gender triggers. Reducing the degree of situational ambiguity constrains the influence of gender on negotiation. Gender triggers prompt divergent behavioral responses as a function of gender. Field and lab studies (1 and 2) demonstrated that decreased ambiguity in the economic structur...

This article is concerned with the ways in which gendered subjectivities are reconstituted within and through contemporary cinematic depictions of dance in films such as Center Stage (2000), Save the Last Dance (2001), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), Step Up (2006) and The Company (2003). [1] My discussion explores the insightful, but largely unaccounted for, areas of overlap between femin...

Abstract: Gender recognition and age detection are important problems in telephone speech processing to investigate the identity of an individual using voice characteristics. In this paper a new gender and age recognition system is introduced based on generative incoherent models learned using sparse non-negative matrix factorization and atom correction post-processing method. Similar to genera...

living in modern societies is full of advertising messages. these messages in diverse and numerous forms affect every day and working life of people. one of the most challenging subjects in advertising is representation of women in advertising and commercial promotions. a large part of representations in advertisements depicts women in their role as cultural stereotypes. the purpose of this stu...

This study examines the lexical representation and processing of noun-noun compounds and their grammatical gender during speech production in German, a language that codes for grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, and neuter). Using a picture-word interference paradigm, participants produced determiner-compound noun phrases in response to pictures, while ignoring written distractor words. Co...

This study consists of an analysis of the novel Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, in terms of cross-dressing as self-representation. The study aims to emphasise how cross-dressing can be significant when expressing one’s gender identity, by examining the gender identity and sexual orientation of the male impersonator Nancy Astley/Nan King and how she reacts to her own queerness. With the use ...