Study finds 10% gender gap in competitiveness between men and women. Men compete more when their performance is slightly above average, while women compete only when they believe they are top performers. Suggests to bridge the gap, policies should boost girls' confidence and adjust perceptions.

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A study reports that almost 50% of scientists will have stopped their activity 10 years after writing their first scientific article, a statistic more marked among women than among men

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Men in colleges and universities currently outpace women in earning physics, engineering, and computer science (PECS) degrees by an approximate ratio of 4 to 1. Most selective universities by math SAT scores have nearly closed the PECS gender gap, while less selective universities have seen it widen

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Study finds gender gap with children when it comes to negotiating - in a series of cognitive tasks, boys had a higher opinion of their abilities and therefore asked for higher bonuses, even though they performed no better than girls did in these tasks.

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Teenage girls have more depressive symptoms than boys in both London and Tokyo. The study found that this gender gap is around twice as large in London and the year-on-year rise in depressive symptoms is around four times steeper for teenage girls in London than for teenage girls in Tokyo.

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📊 New research from Northeastern University, published in PNAS Nexus, reveals women are more skeptical of AI than men, particularly when economic outcomes are uncertain. The study surveyed roughly 3,000 Canadians and Americans.

🤔 The gender gap in AI attitudes is linked to women perceiving AI as riskier, especially concerning job displacement and inequality. When AI-driven job gains were guaranteed, this gap diminished, suggesting an aversion to uncertainty.

👩‍💻 Historically, women's under-representation in STEM fields and fewer opportunities for exposure to emerging technologies contribute to this disparity, potentially widening existing gender pay gaps.

📈 The findings highlight the need for policymakers to address gender-specific concerns in AI policy to prevent exacerbating inequalities or causing backlash against the technology.

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For years, researchers have claimed that men’s friendships are shallower and less emotionally supportive than women’s, a pattern called the “gender friendship gap.” But new research finds that the gap is largely driven by white men specifically, not men as a whole.

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✨ A new global study of about 28,500 participants suggests people worldwide, on average, find women's faces more attractive than men's.

🌍 This "gender attractiveness gap" was found to be consistent across different sexes, cultures, races, and age groups, according to research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on May 27.

👩‍🦰 Women tended to rate other women's faces as more attractive, while men's faces received similarly low ratings from both sexes.

💡 Facial structure differences, such as women's rounder faces and men's more angular shapes, appear to be a significant factor contributing to this gap.

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Deep-rooted cultural beliefs about hierarchy and gender roles can prevent highly educated women from participating fully in the workforce. In societies that heavily favor strict social hierarchies, earning an advanced education does not help women close the economic gender gap.

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The political gender gap may be growing more slowly than headlines suggest. New research finds that while young men and women are diverging politically in some countries, the trend is often overstated and varies significantly across datasets and generations.

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📊 Gender Gap on Social Issues Stable, Events Drive Shifts: New research published in Social Science Quarterly analyzing 2000-2024 Gallup Poll data indicates that gender differences on social and cultural issues have largely remained stable. Contrary to narratives of a widening political divide, men and women's attitudes shift in parallel in response to major national events.

📈 Period Effects Dominate, Not Generational Change: Researchers found that widespread historical events (period effects) had a much larger impact on public opinion across genders than generational differences (cohort effects). When events like the 2008 recession or the COVID-19 pandemic occurred, both men and women's concerns increased or decreased together, keeping the overall gender gap consistent.

⚖️ Women Consistently More Concerned on Care Issues: Women consistently show higher levels of worry regarding care and social protection issues (e.g., hunger, healthcare). However, these concerns spiked equally for both sexes during major crises and then declined together. Similar parallel movements were observed on issues of crime, race relations, and immigration.

🌐 Morality & Rights Opinions Fluctuate in Tandem: On morality and rights issues like abortion policies, gun laws, and LGBTQ+ acceptance, satisfaction levels and opinions fluctuated in sync for both men and women. This suggests broad societal developments, rather than gender-specific divergences, are the primary drivers of public opinion shifts.

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🚺 A major global study of over 6 million people from 118 countries (1990-2025) found women report suffering more pain than men across all measured bodily sites, particularly in the head, face, and abdomen.

📈 Pain increases most sharply before age 55, with peak intensity around 50 for high-intensity pain and around 70 for generalized pain. Musculoskeletal pain in the lower body (back, hip, knee) increased across the lifespan.

🌎 Regions with lower Human Development Index show substantially higher late-life prevalence of bodily pain and nearly double the rates of low back pain in older age.

⚖️ 18.3% of the global pain burden is linked to smoking, obesity, and low household incomes, with regional variations.

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❤️ Research shows women are less likely to be offered treatments like surgery, stents, or strong painkillers compared to men for the same medical conditions.

🔬 An analysis of 38 global studies found that in 33 of them, women received less active treatment for issues including heart conditions, kidney disease, and Parkinson's.

🩺 For conditions like myocardial infarction and heart failure, women were more likely to be given medication, while men received surgical procedures. Women were also less likely to be prescribed statins.

🧠 Men with Parkinson's were more likely to get deep brain stimulation, and those with liver failure had a higher chance of receiving a transplant than women.

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