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Gender and Computer Science at Harvard
(2017-07-14)In recent years, students and faculty at Harvard have made a wide range of efforts to foster gender diversity in computer science. These efforts are likely responsible for a recent increase in female concentrators, but ... -
Gender and Depression: Three Perspectives from Low-and Middle-Income Settings
(2020-11-19)Mental health disorders are a major contributor to the global burden of disease. The vast majority of mental health research is conducted in high income settings and may not translate to low-and middle-income countries ... -
Gender and Sexuality in U.S. Biodiversity Discourse
(2022-07-28)This dissertation examines the role of gender and sexuality in discourses surrounding the biodiversity crisis that threatens the future of most known species, including humans. I examine the gendered rhetoric that biodiversity ... -
Gender asymmetries in ellipsis: An experimental comparison of markedness and frequency accounts in English
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021-11-12)<jats:p>Bobaljik & Zocca (2011) argue that ellipsis reveals the existence of (at least) two classes of gender-paired nouns: in the<jats:italic>actor</jats:italic>/<jats:italic>actress</jats:italic>class, the grammatically ... -
Gender Differences in Professional Advancement: The Role of Goals, Perceptions, and Behaviors
(2016-05-19)Women are significantly underrepresented in senior-level positions within organizations. A great deal of research has provided evidence that both demand-side factors (e.g., bias and discrimination) and supply-side factors ... -
Gender Differences in Sustained Attentional Control Relate to Gender Inequality across Countries
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Sustained attentional control is critical for everyday tasks and success in school and employment. Understanding gender differences in sustained attentional control, and their potential sources, is an important goal of ... -
Gender Differences in the Motivational Processing of Facial Beauty
(Elsevier, 2008)Gender may be involved in the motivational processing of facial beauty. This study applied a behavioral probe, known to activate brain motivational regions, to healthy heterosexual subjects. Matched samples of men and women ... -
Gender Picture Priming: It Works with Denotative and Connotative Primes
(Guilford Publications, 2005)When physical objects or words are encountered, to what extent is their primary semantic meaning also accompanied by secondary social category associates of semantic meaning? Does such an effect occur without conscious ... -
Gender Under Incomplete Acquisition: Heritage Speakers’ Knowledge of Noun Categorization
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Gender, the State, and Development
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Gender-Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
(American Economic Association, 2011)Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous. ... -
Gendered Measures & Outcomes: An Intersectional Investigation of Intergroup Religious Discrimination
(2022-09-16)Religious discourse in social psychology often erases issues of intersectionality by centering a single-axis framework, discounting the ways in which social identities intertwine with each other and broader systems of ... -
Gendering Class in Latin America: How Women Effect and Experience Change in the Class Structure
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)Female participation in the Latin American paid labor force is increasing dramatically. Building upon Portes and Hoffman's (2003) model, we use occupational data to measure gendered changes in Latin America's class structure ... -
Gendering the Shinto Priesthood in Postwar Japan
(2022-05-17)This dissertation uses archival and ethnographic research to examine how the entrance of women into the Shinto priesthood in 1946 precipitated the formation of a gendered priesthood. Although more than 16% of the priesthood ... -
Gene Duplication and Fragmentation in the Zebra Finch Major Histocompatibility Complex
(BioMed Central, 2010)Background: Due to its high polymorphism and importance for disease resistance, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has been an important focus of many vertebrate genome projects. Avian MHC organization is of ... -
Gene Expression and CD4+ T Cell Susceptibility to SIV
(2016-09-08)HIV and its simian counterpart SIV infect CD4+ T cells; however, not all CD4+ T cells are equally vulnerable to infection. Despite decades of research, a complete molecular description of a CD4+ T cell susceptible to ... -
Gene Expression Cartography
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-11-20)Massively multiplexed sequencing of RNA in individual cells is transforming basic and clinical life sciences[1-4]. In standard experiments, however, tissues must be first dissociated. Thus, crucial information about spatial ... -
Gene expression programs in the nose
(2024-03-12)Sensory processing in the nose filters the external olfactory world and supports a wide variety of olfactory behaviors that are fundamental to life. Natural odor stimuli are complex mixtures of volatile chemicals that ...