March is Women's History Month. As far as we have come in 2024, gender stereotypes continue to impede women’s career advancement. In a 2024 Annual Reviews article, Heilman, Caleo, and Manzi highlight ...

Gender nonconforming individuals do not comply with societal stereotypes of how they “should” look or behave based on binary – male and female – gender roles. This article will explain what the term ...

Post written by Dr Francesca Manzi, Assistant Professor of Management in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr Manzi’s research focuses on the ways ...

Gender stereotypes are such a pervasive part of everyday life that it can be hard to even recognize them—but they do extraordinary damage and are at the root of many forms of inequality and violence.

A new study from researchers at University of Oregon suggests that these gender stereotypes around food may also influence kids and the kinds of foods they choose to eat. Nichole Kelly is the ...

A team of psychology researchers from the University of Amsterdam, Western Washington University, the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto, has found that reading books to ...

School can quickly dispel myths in a student. Lightning doesn't magically appear, we never use "if" with a verb in the conditional tense, and it was while searching for a sea route to China or the ...

Coming-of-age novels can give readers young and old insight into their own evolving identity and how to navigate a confusing, messy world. But there is another feature of the genre that isn't so ...