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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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Is this graphic about female executives accurate?

Is this graph about female executives accurate? Women in executive positions earn 18% less than the average male executive. This is why: 70% Allocative hiring: only 3.7% of all CEOs and 2.3% of all executive chairmen positions are female. …
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Do women 'consume more sustainably than men'?

European Parliament Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality has adopted the resolution "on women and climate change". The report argues that climate change exacerbates gender discrimination, because women, who make up 50% of the population,…
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Are half of transgender women inmates (in England and Wales) sex offenders or category A prisoners?

The group Fair Play for Women published a report in Oct 2017 claiming that Half of all trans-identifying males (transwomen) in prison are convicted sex offenders or dangerous Category A prisoners. However a Medium article by Kaylin Hamilton…
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Are millions of chinese men without wives because of population gender imbalance?

I keep finding articles stating that because of the One Child Policy, there is a big gender imbalance in China. They say it's bad enough that millions of men won't be able to find a wife.…
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Are male nurses salaries higher than female nurses salaries?

A recent article on USA Today claims that on male nurses make more than female nurses: even in an occupation that women overwhelmingly dominate, they [women] still earn less than men [...] The gender gap for registered nurses' salaries amounts to a…
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Does watching pornography increase sexual performance in women?

I am referring to these lines: A recent study reported that increasing porn use is linked to decreased sexual performance in men and increased sexual performance in women. Big Think - Is watching pornography bad for men — but good for women? The…
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Are an increasing number of gender transitioned people seeking to detransition?

In a recent essay defending her views on sex and gender issues, author J.K. Rowling writes: I’m concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning Are…
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Have 331 trans and gender-diverse people been murdered in the last year (to Nov 2019)?

Transgender Europe (TGEU) have a research project, Transrespect versus Trannsphobia Worldwide. They recently issued a press release, TMM Update Trans Day of Remembrance 2019: The TDoR 2019 update has revealed a total of 331 cases of reported…
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Do single, childless women earn more than their male counterparts in urban USA?

The Daily Wire has a 2016 article that claims that women are not victims of pay discrimination. The general topic is covered by a relation question here: Are women underpaid relative to men? However, one more specific claim that is made is that…
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Did/do women select for protectiveness in their mates?

This claim is made by Smuts and Gubernick: An additional mechanism shaping female preference for stronger mates could have been the increased survival benefits conveyed to offspring. Smuts and Gubernick (1992) point out that in many non-human…
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Has it only been about two hundred years since women gained access to literacy?

Ursula Le Guin's 1986 essay, "Prospects for Women in Writing", opens with the sentence, It's only been about two hundred years since women gained access to literacy and began to empower themselves with that great power, the written word. And they…
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Is there a difference in driving ability between men and women?

Possible Duplicate: Does gender affect driving skill? Time and time again I hear that "women shouldn't be allowed on the road because they are bad drivers" or similar stories. I'm personally of the opinion that with an activity like driving a…
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Are women biologically (rather than culturally) equally inclined to take technical jobs?

Google fired James Damore for his memo about Google's gender diversity policies. Quoted are these parts of the memo that claim that in spite of significant overlap, innate biological differences between men and women may be responsible for the…
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Do women rate 80% of men as "below average looking"?

From Reddit's "Today I Learned" section: TIL Women find 80% of men below-average looking - according to research based on OkCupid's 7 million users. Is this an accurate summary of OKCupid's research? Is OKCupid's research valid? (other than the…
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Does birth control decrease gray matter in the brain?

I read once that women who take birth control pills experience decreases in gray matter. The researchers found that certain regions of the cortex were thinner in women who took birth control pills than in women who were not on the pill. Birth…
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