The concept was launched to back the 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign, which aims to tackle the gender ratio gap in India caused by female foeticide and to improve female education.
Ripa Rashid is highly educated, has worked at some of the world's top blue-chip companies, and is an expert in workplace diversity and talent management, but even she got caught out by the gender wage gap.
The Global MBA students come from a much wider range of industries, for one thing; have a wider age range; and have a more balanced gender split.
The body-revealing gowns and barely there footwear worn by women on the red carpet have direct links to 18th-century ideas on gender, 19th-century pornographic images and midcentury concepts of a woman's place in society.
FAMOUS ONLY CHILDREN : Leonardo DiCaprio · Daniel Radcliffe · Natalie Portman · Drew Barrymore · James Dean · Jack Nicholson · Elvis Presley Alicia Keys · Russell Brand · Maria Sharapova They add that gender, social status, age gaps between siblings and the number of siblings can play a huge role in determining traits.
This one's a classic: Popular western TV series like The Big Bang Theory stereotypes Indians as people who can't handle a conversation with the opposite gender.
Even if we try to be "neutral judges", says Francesca Gino, a professor at Harvard Business School, we tend to view people with whom we feel some affinity — whether because of education, gender, ethnicity or some lesser connection − more favourably.
Obesity expert Dr Sarah Jackson said that the law should protect against weight discrimination, in the same way at it prohibits singling out people based on their age, gender or race.
The study found women were most likely to show agreeable personality traits, perhaps one reason for the gender pay gap.
SAN FRANCISCO — John Doerr really needed a win, and late Friday the esteemed venture capitalist got one of the biggest of his career: a jury's complete dismissal of gender discrimination claims against his firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
However much you may want to dismiss sartorial stereotype, it's inarguable that such styles spark an almost Pavlovian response in the lizard brain: They bring to mind the decades when gender roles were codified and distinct, when women's sphere was the home, and their game plan didn't necessarily included higher education.
She is going to Silicon Valley while it is facing its own issues about gender balance.
In 1995, States and civil society representatives signed a commitment for gender equality, guided by the conviction that "women's empowerment and their full participation on the basis of equality in all spheres of society, including participation in the decision-making process and access to power, are fundamental for the achievement of equality, development and peace.
But there's more here than gender equality.
Some researchers also believe that rock is associated with social awareness and rebelliousness while pop is connected to values about gender roles and conformity.
While the identity of each user remained anonymous, the researchers had access to age, gender, height, initial weight and time-stamped activities.
Mei Zhiqiang,deputy director the Family Planning Commission of Shanxi province, offered therecommendation earlier this week as a way to solve the country's increasinglyproblematic gender imbalance.
In this experiment, researchers altered pictures of participants to make them look more and less attractive by melding them with a photo of an attractive—or unattractive—person of the same gender.
The issues of independence and gender identity will be weighed against the prospect that a child molester may be lurking in the lavatory.
* Gender: Men naturally have more muscle and less fat that women do.
