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Questions tagged [gender]

Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them.

Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity.

Please use this tag to identify questions which are of the "male vs. female" type, e.g. "Are men more aggressive than women?", for the psychological and social aspects of sex and sexual activities in general.

See also http://meta.skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/652/96.

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Does mixed-sex education increase violence in schools?

TSA-Alerie reports [French] that a poster on a conference at the National Library of Algeria has a controversial claim: La mixité sexuelle à l’école est la cause numéro un de la violence scolaire which translates to: Mixed-sex schools are the…
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Were any women involved in the 2008 financial crisis?

In the article titled Men want more testosterone, the world needs less in the Globe and Mail on Sep. 27, 2011, Margaret Wente states: Perhaps you’ve noticed that not a single woman was involved with the reckless speculation that led to the debacle…
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Are puberty blockers fully reversible?

Multiple sources claim that puberty blockers function like a pause button. To name a few: Using puberty blockers is like hitting a pause button St. Louis Children's Hospital “The really wonderful feature of puberty blockers is that they are a…
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Have 41% of transgender people attempted suicide?

In Daniella Carter's TED talk "Walking in your truth as an LGBT youth", she mentioned: I need it, they need it, we need the love, we need the liberation, we need the support, not only for the 2.5 million homeless LGBT youth but for the 41 percent…
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Does this study give evidence that women are better leaders than men

I saw this article on my facebook wall today. It claims that women are better than men in leadership skills. This is the conclusion of researchers. “The results indicate that, as regards personality, women are better suited for leadership than…
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Does having more women in a group increase its collective intelligence?

Various reputable media outlets have written articles down through the years to the effect that the higher the ratio of women in a group, the higher its collective intelligence. Examples online: Huffington Post: The Collective Intelligence of…
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Is Trump's election the first successful presidential election campaign with a female campaign manager?

From a tweet with over six thousand retweets, also retweeted by Nazí Paikidze, International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM): The first woman in American history to successfully manage a presidential campaign was Trump's campaign…
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Can human males produce milk?

Can human males lactate (produce milk) in the manner females can? According to Wikipedia: Spontaneous lactation occasionally occurs in starving men; after World War II, for example, thousands of cases were observed among POWs released from…
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Is Michelle Obama a transgender woman?

Many of my friends claim that the wife of Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, is a transgender woman. In 2014, comedian Joan Rivers made the claim in a street interview: Rivers: You know Michelle is a tranny. Reporter: I'm sorry? She's a what? Rivers: A…
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Do girls get better grades than boys at school?

According to The Atlantic, it's not even a question whether it's true. It's just a question of knowing why. According to the article it's based on "369 studies involving the academic grades of over one million boys and girls from 30 different…
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Is testosterone responsible for typically "male" behaviour?

On the English Language and Usage stack exchange, two people asked what was meant by "testosterone-charged", as in the following quote, from the story "2 States: The Story of My Marriage" by Chetan Bhagat: "I’d have much preferred her place, as I…
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Are men 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women?

This is something I found on Tumblr: I also found this on Flickr (image license): This image was posted to Reddit: Does this claim have any scientific basis at all?
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Do women experience more emotion than men?

For much of human history, it was "common knowledge" that women were much more emotional than men. This belief still appears to be widely held. Does either gender experience emotions either more frequently or stronger? If there is a difference,…
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At what age do children develop a sense of gender identity?

To make things clear, I want to state that I have no doubt about whether people are transgender and what that means. I simply am asking about what age children are able to comprehend their personal situation. The family of an adult who recently came…
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Are men raped at a higher rate than women, after considering prison rape?

I've seen a number of articles claiming that contrary to what one might expect, American men are raped more often than women when one takes in to account prison rape. Is this accurate? Examples of claim: Via amren.com More men are raped in the…
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