Will continuing to challenge gender norms and document their harmful impacts lead to their extinction — or evolution?

Gender stereotypes are views about how members of a specific gender should behave or which attributes they should have. Examples include females being stereotyped as more emotional than males. Gender ...

Identifying and correcting stereotypes To avoid relying on stereotypes to assess women, Darling suggests developing a broader perspective on gender. “We can acknowledge that many men and women are ...

Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Bern in Switzerland have conducted the first cross-temporal, multinational study to compare views of gender using data collected 30 years ...

Not all gender stereotypes about science, technology, engineering, and math are the same, according to a new study. The research analyzed dozens of previous studies on the beliefs that children hold ...

This post was authored in collaboration with Chiara Terzo, a research fellow at the Italian Institute of Technology (Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication). In 1922, the ...

To close the gender gap in recruitment and empower women in the workplace, business leaders must rethink how they recruit and promote talent. Harvard Business School Professor Katherine Coffman finds ...

As someone who serves in roles of the breadwinner and full-time mom, there are fewer gender stereotypes that occur in my home than in the society at large. This really isn’t the way I planned it, it’s ...

Researchers have developed a novel machine-learning framework that uses scene descriptions in movie scripts to automatically recognize different characters' actions. Applying the framework to hundreds ...

Gender stereotypes negatively inform the way we interact both with ourselves and with the people in our lives, shaping the power dynamics and traditional roles within our romantic relationships. So ...