In a Pew Research Report released yesterday, over two thousand Americans were asked about their views on marriage and parenting. Men and women's opinions ran in close accordance, according to the 91-page report: "the group differences in public opinion on these matters tend to be correlated with age, religion, race and ethnicity, as well as with ( Read more... )

Different people have different needs from their social networks, and many researchers have attempted to find gender-based patterns in these needs. Joyce Benenson (1990) found that boys had larger social networks than girls in 4th and 5th grades. Yeung et al (2007) found that women, but not men, who adhered less to traditional relationship roles ( Read more... )

While the effects of physical height on job success for men are well documented, it has been suggested that women would have a ceiling effect on height benefit, being negatively judged as too tall. However, Judge and Cable (2004) found that physical height was related to financial success for both men and women. Effects appeared to be slightly ( Read more... )

According to Kendler et al (2005), women usually report having more supportive social networks than men, but have higher rates of depression. In a study of over 1,000 pairs of male-female twins, Kendler et al found that women reported having a more supportive social network than did their twin brothers. Male and female twins did not show a ( Read more... )

Williams and Pow (2007) found that among Scottish teenagers, boys were much more likely to have negative attitudes about mental illness than girls. Ng and Chan (2000) also found more stereotyping and stigmatizing of mental illness among teen boys in their Hong Kong survey. Cotton et al (2006) found that Australian men were more likely to suggest ( Read more... )

As early as John Corso (1959), it has been documented that women tend to have more sensitive hearing than men, and have less variability in hearing sensitivity than men do. McFadden (1998) notes that not only are women more sensitive to noise, but that they also have stronger evoked otoacoustic emissions (EOAEs) (sounds produced by the inner ear, ( Read more... )

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Abbey and Melby (1986) found that males perceived more sexual intent than females in both ambiguous and nonambiguous nonverbal situations. Levesque et al (2006) also found that men attributed more sexual interest after brief interaction than women, but that women tended to generalize attraction to positive personality characteristics more than men ( Read more... )

Many of the studies that study gender take sex-role into account, and measure a subject's "masculinity" or "femininity" using a psychological tool called the "Bem Sex Role Inventory." (BSRI) The inventory was created by Sandra Ruth Lipsitz Bem (currently at Cornell) in 1976. Generally, it is a set of up to 60 personality characteristics which ( Read more... )

Studies have consistently shown that women tend to be more religious than men. Researchers have associated this difference with such possible mediators as risk-taking (Miller and Hoffman, 1995), locus of control (Fiori et al, 2006), prioritization of values (Saroglou, 2004), and gender orientation (Thompson, 1991). L. J. Francis's 1997 review ( Read more... )