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Study finds men, women physicians participate differently in academic sett
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Boston [US], January 21 (ANI): According to new research, male and female physicians may assert themselves differently in academic settings. This may lead to gender biases in grading that disadvantage female students and trainees.
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Study on interventions that may improve girls' education in low and middle
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Washington [US], January 21 (ANI): A new study has summarised evidence from 82 studies from low- and middle-income countries to identify programs that may help to improve girls' education outcomes and narrow gender disparities.
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Chandigarh Welfare Trust, an NGO for well-being, holistic development of C
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Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], January 18 (ANI/PRNewswire): With the mission of creating a future full of opportunities, tolerance and social justice, with community well-being at its core, a first-of-its-kind NGO dedicated to development and welfare of the Chandigarh city-- Chandigarh Welf
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Taliban trying to 'erase' women from public life, say UN experts
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 18 (ANI): A group of UN human rights experts warned on Monday that that large-scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls has been ongoing since the Taliban took over the control of Afghanistan in mid-August in order to "
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Diversity and inclusion: A goal or an illusion of India's bright future?
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 15 (ANI/ATK): Imagine you are gearing up for your first interview out of college. You can't walk. But that has never stopped you. You managed to score a 9.05 GPA against all odds in college. You punched above your weight. But the interviewer takes one look at yo
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Gender stereotypes in computer science, engineering begin by age six: Stud
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Washington [US], January 15 (ANI): A recent study led by a team of international researchers found that the perception that boys are more interested than girls in computer science and engineering starts as young as age six.
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Study finds gender stereotypes in computer science, engineering begin by a
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Houston [US], January 10 (ANI): A new study has found that the perception that boys are more interested than girls in computer science and engineering starts as young as age six.
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Uniform Civil Code draft must be published soon to end all confusion, says
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 8 (ANI): A day after the Central government's reply in Delhi High Court over the Uniform Civil Code, one of the petitioners Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay said that the government should soon publish a UCC draft to end all the confusion as it is a matter of civil liberty,
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Germany appoints first Commissioner for 'Sexual and Gender Diversity'
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Berlin [Germany], January 8 (ANI): Germany appointed Sven Lehmann, a Green Party lawmaker as a Federal Government Commissioner for the Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Diversity, a first of its kind position in the country's history.
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Panel is gender skewed, says lone MP in Parliamentary committee formed to
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New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): The parliamentary panel headed by BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahastrabuddhe, to which the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill that seeks to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 has been referred to, will start its deliberat
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Storybooks might be an early source of gender stereotypes: Study
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Washington [US], January 1 (ANI): Researchers have found that children by age two start to develop beliefs about gender, including stereotypes.
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Madurai transgender trains bulls for Jallikattu
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Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], December 29 (ANI): Spreading a message of gender equality, a brave transgender from Madurai is training six bulls for the upcoming Jallikattu festival in Tamil Nadu.
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