Questions tagged [gender]
Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them.
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Is the gender pay gap evidence of discrimination?
(I've asked this before but people had troubling separating the question from just the gender pay gap. This is a way I was suggested to ask it, so I am giving it a try)
No one can deny the gender pay ...
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Are women underpaid relative to men?
Many articles, such as this one, report a significant wage gap between men and women of 15% or more as evidence of discrimination. On the other hand, some sources, such as this one, claim that the gap ...
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Are men smarter than women?
I recently stumbled across the following article:
Sorry, men ARE more brainy than women (and more stupid too!) It's a simple scientific fact, says one of Britain's top dons, in which the author claims:...
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Does gender affect driving skill?
Are there any differences in either sex which are provably beneficial and/or detrimental to their driving abilities?
Also, is it possible that stereotypical gender roles make any difference in ...
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Are 95% of Ashley Madison dating site's accounts male?
The hackers who procured and recently published Ashley Madison's internal databases, the so-called "Impact Team," have claimed that the accounts in the databases were predominantly, in fact "90-95%" ...
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Do 80% of gender-dysphoric children grow up deciding not to change their gender?
A Wall Street Journal article makes the following claim:
... a high percentage—up to 80% in a study of 44 gender-dysphoric
boys—grow up to be not transgender, but bisexual, gay or lesbian
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Is spousal abuse primarily initiated by males?
Avoiding exceptions for same-sex couples, is abuse in heterosexual couples more commonly initiated by the husband? I am mostly interested in physical violence that is non-reciprocal. In other words, ...
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Do either men or women have higher pain tolerance than the other?
Traditional folklore suggests women have a higher pain tolerance than men. I have seen a few sites suggesting otherwise. Naturally, plenty of anecdotal accounts of wussy men or women get tossed around ...
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Do men show greater variance in the distribution of their IQ than women?
It is frequently claimed that men show greater variance in the distribution of their general intelligence factor (g) ("IQ") than women.
Is that claim accepted by the scientific community?
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Have 41% of transgender people attempted suicide?
In Daniella Carter's TED talk "Walking in your truth as an LGBT youth", she mentioned:
I need it, they need it, we need the love, we need the liberation, we need the support, not only for the 2.5 ...
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Are women physically weaker?
I've always thought that "women are weaker1 than men in general" was a biological fact (supposedly stemming/evolving from the social structure of prehistoric humans)
Is there any reputable ...
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Does gender reassignment surgery increase quality of life of transgender individuals?
The general belief, at least amongst the LGBT community, is that gender reassignment surgery will increase the quality of life of transgender individuals. Obviously those that undergo the surgery ...
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Do women statistically have better multitasking ability than men?
I hear this very often, while woman can do several things at a time. If this is true, what are the qualifications that make woman capable of doing several things at once?
A quick Google search ...
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Are gender dysphoric teenagers more likely to take their own lives if they are not allowed to transition?
In a recent essay defending her controversial views on sex and gender issues, author J.K. Rowling writes:
The argument of many current trans activists is that if you don’t let a gender dysphoric ...
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Do biological males who were castrated at birth and raised as females often behave like stereotypical men?
In "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber", James Damore wrote (emphasis added on claim):
On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways. These differences aren’t just socially ...
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Do women talk more than men?
I heard many times that women talk more than man. Sometimes numbers were included: women talk, on average, 25.000 words per day; men talk only 15.000.
Are women more talkative than men?
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Do full-time working women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man earns?
The White House claims that:
On average, full-time working women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.
Is it the case?
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Is it possible to influence the sex of a baby by controlling the mothers' diet?
Can a mother decide whether a baby will be born male or female through careful control of her diet?
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Has Saudi Arabia announced plans for a women-only city?
There's been reports of announced plans for a women-only city in Saudi Arabia. For example: Saudi Arabia plans new city for women workers only from The Guardian.
Al Arabiya claimed (on August 15, ...
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Is testosterone responsible for typically "male" behaviour?
On the English Language and Usage stack exchange, two people asked what was meant by "testosterone-charged", as in the following quote, from the story "2 States: The Story of My Marriage" by Chetan ...
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Can men mentally rotate images better than women?
Arguing with colleagues about common gender beliefs, someone said that women can multi-task better but men can mentally rotate images better. I sent them the following in response to the first ...
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Do women drive 80% of consumption?
The Men's Rights organization, Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) have claimed (quoting The Observer Watches Blog) that:
Consumption in the modern world today is driven overwhelmingly by women (80-91%,...
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Has it only been about two hundred years since women gained access to literacy?
Ursula Le Guin's 1986 essay, "Prospects for Women in Writing", opens with the sentence,
It's only been about two hundred years since women gained access to literacy and began to empower themselves ...
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Is the gender gap in male dominated areas possible to overcome by a simple self-esteem exercise?
15-minute writing exercise closes the gender gap in university-level physics
According to the article the gender gap in an otherwise very male dominated field, is easy to overcome, all that is needed ...
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Do women earn less than men for the same exact work? [duplicate]
Previous questions on the site such as this one and this one, as well as the answers and their sources address the gender pay gap on a broad scale, comparing the careers of all men to the careers of ...
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Does gender transitioning do nothing to help suicidal ideation?
According to the article A landmark Finnish study is changing how we approach transgender kids:
A major new study out of Finland found that providing cross-sex hormones and gender-transition ...
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