MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'gender stereotypes'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:56:40 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159222&cid=t_260347_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F21%2Fsarah-haskins-on-ladyfriend-stereotypes%2F From Current: The best part about being a girl is your girlfriends. They keep you happy when you’re sad and make you laugh when you want to cry, and most importantly, tell you what to buy. Related Situationist posts: Barbie Commercials Across the Decades and the Implications on Female Identity and Objectification The Gendered Situation of Math, Humanities, and Romance Sexism: The Worst Part Is Not Knowing Unlevel Playing Fields: From Baseball Diamonds to Emergency Rooms Susan Fiske on “Inclusive Leadership, Stereotyping and the Brain” Sexual Harassment at Wal-Mart? The Situation of Sexual Harassment Susan Fiske’s New Book Susan Fiske Discusses her Work on Different Types of Prejudices “The Situation of Objectification,” “Women’s Situational Bind,” and “Y... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159222 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:01:11 +0100 5159222 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159223&cid=t_260347_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F20%2Fbreastfeeding-prejudice%2F From Bozeman Daily Chronicle: A study conducted at Montana State University finds that even though breastfeeding is healthy, cheap and beneficial to mother and child, there is a strong bias against nursing mothers among both men and women. Jessi L. Smith, psychology professor at MSU, found that participants in three studies thought nursing mothers were not as mentally competent as other groups of women and said they’d be less likely to hire breastfeeding mothers for a job. The results of Smith’s study were published this summer in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Smith and her co-authors questioned MSU students in three double-blind studies about how they perceived breastfeeding moms’ competence and hire-ability compared to non-breastfeeding people. In all ... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159223 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:01:21 +0100 5159223 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4984511&cid=t_260347_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F28%2Fsusan-fiske-on-inclusive-leadership-stereotyping-and-the-brain%2F Discussion about (In)Equality,” “The Interior Situational Reaction to Inequality,” (Source: The Situationist) The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4984511 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 03:18:58 +0100 4984511 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4259093&cid=t_260347_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FmwQYciAdO_0%2F A recent New York Times Modern Love essay “Honey, Let’s Get a Little Divorced” by Rachel Zucker, was well-written and poetic, which makes sense, because the author is a published writer and poet. But I have issues with her column. I’m very glad that Ms. Zucker and her husband have outlasted the marriages of both their divorced parents. As anyone who’s ever been married for any length of time can tell you, this is an impressive achievement, to be sure. But the article’s clever angle of “let’s act a little divorced so we can become better partners” could just as easily have been couched as: “‘let’s pretend we’re both single and never got married in the first place.” That said, I completely understand the auth... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4259093 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:16:43 +0100 4259093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3227858&cid=t_260347_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F01%2Fthe-nerdy-gendered-situation-of-computer-science%2F From University of Washington News (by Joel Schwarz): * * * In real estate, it’s location, location, location. And when it comes to why girls and women shy away from careers in computer science, a key reason is environment, environment, environment. The stereotype of computer scientists as nerds who stay up all night coding and have no social life may be driving women away from the field, according to a new study published this month. This stereotype can be brought to mind based only on the appearance of the environment in a classroom or an office. “When people think of computer science the image that immediately pops into many of their minds is of the computer geek surrounded by such things as computer games, science fiction memorabilia and junk food,” said Sapna Cheryan... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3227858 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:29:02 +0100 3227858 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2588257&cid=t_260347_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F10%2Fthe-gendered-situation-of-chess%2F From ChessBase News:  “Normally knowing your enemy is an advantage. Not so in chess games between the sexes. In a study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 38, Issue 2 (March/April 2008) (pdf here), Anne Maass, Claudio D’Ettole, Mara Cadinu, Dr Anne Maass (et al.) pitted male and female players against each other via the Internet. Women showed a 50% performance decline when they were aware that they were playing a male opponent.”  Here’s the article’s abstract. * * * Women are surprisingly underrepresented in the chess world, representing less that 5% of registered tournament players worldwide and only 1% of the world’s grandmasters. In this paper it is argued that gender stereotypes are mainly responsible for the underper... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2588257 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:09:42 +0100 2588257