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#research: gender, socialisation and early sexism – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 6, 2017Researchers have shown that by age one (and in some studies, as early as three months old), children show clear preferences for gender-consistent toys (eg trucks for boys, dolls for girls). This occ...
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#research: motherhood Penalty for Women and Daddy Bonus for Men
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 30, 2016Today Fawcett release the latest findings from our nationwide poll of 8,000 people, entitled ‘Parents, work and care: Striking the Balance’. The poll found that when a woman has a baby, 46% of people...
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#research: Parenting in Ghana: ‘this almost certainly reinforces the notion that men are “better”’
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 2, 2016Parents use a number of methods to try and raise their children well – rewards, punishments and consciously modelled behaviours or instructions. These approaches are steeped in a country’s traditions....
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#study: fatherhood changes men’s views on gender roles, and not for the better (on @bust_magazine)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 7, 2015What gives dudes, is right! On bust.com:According to a study produced by Australian social scientist Janeen Baxter, men “became more consistently traditional in their views on gender roles,” and “appe...
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#guestpost: Gender Neutral Parenting (GNP) and gender neutral clothing
By feimineach / in #sociology, #equality, #gender, #guestposts / February 7, 2015This is a guest post on the blog from Monica Lowry: If you saw the recent post on femineach on "Five Reasons Why Gendered Products are a Problem," you likely have a better understanding of the harm c...
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#patriarchiesrealign: “If Dad made more money, you wouldn’t work, right?”
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / December 10, 2014What unnerves me is realizing that somehow, my own daughter has picked up on the idea that for a mother to not work is the optimum situation, the one that, if money were no object, of course one would...
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#research: Gay and lesbian parents are “perfectly average” (i.e. just like everyone else)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 28, 2012A report out in the October issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry finds that “high-risk” children adopted from foster care do just as well when matched with gay, lesbian or straight parents...
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#research: Research Now Claims There’s A “Mommy Gene” You May Or May Not Have
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / September 30, 2012(And in case you were wondering about the bottom line, it’ll be that you’re an even worse woman that, you know, bad women anyway, if you don’t got the gene. Shame on you!) While thi...
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