Gender Studies

More Men Work Overtime Due To Job Pressure
by eNotAlone.com
A new Dutch study has found that many men these days are pressured to work up to 40 hours - often unpaid - per week in order to stay competitive in today's environment. The latest research has revealed that women face the same pressures as men

Women Handle Stressful Life Events Better Than Men
by eNotAlone.com
The experts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem indicate that women can handle stressful situations much better than men. According to a new scientific study, individuals have different reactions to strain, mostly due to their genetic differences.

Beauty Perceptions Differ In Men And Women
by eNotAlone.com
Beauty is viewed differently by men and women, suggests a new study, which found that women use the whole brain to process and absorb exquisiteness, while man use only the right hemisphere of their brain.

Men Agree More About What Is Attractive In Women
by eNotAlone.com
There is much more agreement among men about what is attractive in opposite sex, than there is among women, whose definition of what makes a man attractive is less well-defined, a new U.S. study has found.

Men Can Guess A Woman's Age Even When Drunk
by eNotAlone.com
Drunk men find the opposite sex less attractive and have no problem when it comes to guessing a woman's age, according to a new study by British researchers. This means that drunkenness should not be considered an excuse for a man mistaking an underage

Guys Prefer Non-Drinking Ladies
by eNotAlone.com
Very often young ladies in college may be drinking in excess to impress or charm the counterparts of the opposite sex. However, the new study suggests that college guys actually are not quite impressed when women become their drinking buddies.

Tweeter Users Do Not Like To 'Tweet'
by eNotAlone.com
According to the results of the first extensive sociological studies on Twitter, conducted by Harvard Business School, more than 90 per cent of the content on Twitter is generated just by 10 per cent of the prolific users of the frenetically popular

Men With Sense Of Humor Attract More Attention Than Not-So-Funny
by eNotAlone.com
Did you know that women prefer men who can make them laugh to those who are not so funny? Well, according to a new report, they really do, and what is even more - women perceive men with good sense of humor as more intelligent and more suitable for a long

Women More Than Men Reject Babies With Birth Defects
by eNotAlone.com
Psychiatrists at Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital have found that women have a harder time than men looking at babies with facial birth defects and are more likely than men to reject unattractive-looking babies. Researchers, who were studying perception

Women Can Detect Body Odor More Effectively Than Men
by eNotAlone.com
There is no chance that you could fool a woman when it comes to smelling the body odor. The U.S. scientists found that it is women, and not men, who are more sensitive among two genders, to perceive biologically relevant information from body sweat.

Men Suffer More From Recession Than Women
by eNotAlone.com
Job insecurity makes men more depressed, stressed and anxious than women in the same situation, according to new findings by academics at the University of Cambridge. The scientists said that the fear of losing a job, and in other words, the status

Men Respond Better To Ads And Spend More Time Online
by eNotAlone.com
According to the new data by market research firm eMarketer, men spend more time browsing the Web than women; they also use social networks more often and more positively react to advertisements.

Gratitude Expressed Differently By Men And Women
by eNotAlone.com
Gratitude, thankfulness, or appreciation is a positive emotion or attitude when individuals acknowledge a benefit of receiving help, depending on their interpretation of the situation.

The Not-So-Happy Ending
The Reluctant Metrosexual: Dispatches from an Almost Hip Life
by Peter Hyman
Welcome to the almost hip life of a reluctant metrosexual-a straight man whose tastes are just gay enough. Equal parts cultural anthropologist, amateur sexologist and witty skeptic, Hyman wryly chronicles the promiscuity and perils of modern manhood

Gender Differences
Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
Matthew turned five years old the summer before kindergarten started. He was looking forward to it. From what he had heard, kindergarten sounded like just one long play date with friends. He could hardly wait.

The Mine
Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
by Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler, J.D.
It snowed all day and night on Sunday. By dawn, three feet of snow covered the Mesabi Iron Range. Lois Jenson warmed her delicate hands on her coffee mug as she looked out the window of her small house in Virginia, Minnesota.

Nagging
Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes : The Ultimate Guide to the Opposite Sex
by Barbara Pease, Allan Pease
Nag: verb to annoy, badger, bend someone's ear, berate, breathe down someone's neck, worry, harrass, hassle, henpeck, pester, plague, provoke, scold, torment; noun a person, especially a woman, who nags. Nagging is a term used almost exclusively by men

True or False: The brain has a sex at birth.
Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget
by Marianne J. Legato, MD, FACP
True. Our sex is fixed and immutable-and not just at birth, but from the very moment of conception. That sex has implications for all the systems in our bodies, including our brains. But in a sense, this is a trick question, because while we are

The Difference Between Genders
The Dr. Drew and Adam Book: A Survival Guide To Life and Love
by Adam Carolla, Drew Pinsky, M.D., Marshall Fine
Is there a secret guys need to know to understand women sexually? Do men and women approach relationships differently? I've been going out with this guy for a while. We seemed to be getting along really well, but he tells me he only wants to be friends

The Gender Myth, The World of Personality Type
Just Your Type : Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type
by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger
There's no denying that those who espouse the viewpoint that gender is an inevitable barrier to good communication have struck a chord with millions of people who are frustrated with the way they deal with their partners.