Indian-born women who already have two daughters are significantly more likely to have a son after moving to Canada, which the researchers and the author of an accompanying commentary believe shows “prenatal sex selection is likely present among first-generation immigrants to Canada from India and provide strong evidence that suggests induced abortions are being used […]
Tag: gender
Women and the empathic yawn
It’s called yawn contagion, the need to yawn when you see someone else yawning. Increasingly it’s recognized as an empathy based response. Now, new research not only supports that notion but has found that women are more likely to contagiously yawn, than men. The authors of the paper observed people for five years during their […]
A hurricane by any other name…
Severe hurricanes with feminine-sounding names killed more Americans than similarly severe hurricanes with male names, a new study shows. The authors reached this conclusion after asking independent volunteers to rate the masculinity (e.g. Ivan) or femininity (e.g. Cindy) of 94 hurricanes that made landfall in the US between 1950 and 2012 and matching this with […]
