Nielsen//Net Ratings (2008, pdf) reported in February that women are more likely to watch network television as streaming video than men: 22% to 12%. Men are more likely to watch "Consumer Generated Media" (CGM): 27% to 12%. The Nielsen report, which was criticized for excluding iTunes ("The Underwire" blog, 2008), pointed out further ( Read more... )

Follow-up to Friday's post: New York Times review of Susan Pinker's new book. Review by Emily Bazelon, "senior editor at Slate."

Psychologist and author Steven Pinker isn't the only author in his family. Released this month, his sister Susan Pinker's new book advocates for "women's professional advancement on their own terms." The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap, released this month, suggests that the "Vanilla Male Model" of success isn't fulfilling or ( Read more... )

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Julia Juola Exline, Associate professor of Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, says she was "aggravated" by the results of her experiments with forgiveness. Men kept turning up as less forgiving and more vengeful than women. "The gender difference is not anything that we predicted... We kept trying to explain it away, but it kept ( Read more... )

Financial columnist Sandra Block (2008) discusses the pitfalls of filing for early benefits from Social Security, an issue facing many of the Baby Boomers (who are now 44-62). Block examines two different mortality differences: the gap between men and women (see 9/28/06), and the gap between unmarried and married men (see 1/10/07)). Both of these ( Read more... )

Reuters (2008) reports that a new "roleplay cafe" has opened in Tokyo, this time catering to women. The roleplay cafe idea is not a new one. Author Neil Gaiman (2007) discussed maid cafes (see Wikipedia for cosplay restaurant) in his blog last September. However, the new "Edelstein boarding school" cafe claims to be the first schoolboy cafe, ( Read more... )

As we've discussed before, women (in general) tend to take more time out of work than men. However, there is at least one reason why men may be more likely to call in sick than women. A new survey by Harris Interactive (2008) found that men were more likely (11% to 5%) to call in sick in order to (or as a result of) watching a sporting event ( Read more... )

Saha et al, 2005 report that their meta-analysis of studies from 1965-2002 found no significant difference in the prevalence of schizophrenia between men and women. This is especially curious given the same group's reporting of the male/female odds ratio for incidence at 1.40 in the previous year (McGrath et al, 2004). As incidence examines new ( Read more... )