Gender Issues

Column: Feminism is a human rights issue

9 Feb 2012

I've noticed that gender equality has recently become a visible topic on campus. That isn't to say that gender equality hasn't been visible before events such as Take Back the Night. But the student club, Student Advocates for Gender Equality, has real... ;

Kids show cultural gender bias

9 Feb 2012

(PhysOrg.com) -- Talk about gender confusion! A recent study by University of Alberta researchers Elena Nicoladis and Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology into whether speaking French influenced how children assigned gender to objects yielded some interesting observations. Nicoladis and Foursha-Stevenson found some differences between the unilingual English ...

Exploring the top health issues affecting women

9 Feb 2012

Pronews 7 explores cutting edge gender-based research taking place that shows a difference in the way men and women handle health issues.