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House passes Paycheck Fairness Act: The U.S. House of Representatives on July 31 passed a bill that would lift the cap on compensatory and punitive damages that women may be awarded in wage discrimination cases. The Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 1388) also requires employers to provide a business reason for why females are paid less...; Tags: female, Rep., U.S. House of Representatives, women; Research articles 2008-09-01
Dozens of massacred narwhals found on Greenland coast: COPENHAGEN AFP — Dozens of massacred narwhals, an Arctic whale with a single long tusk, have been discovered on the east coast of Greenland in what local police said Thursday could be a case of poaching. "We received a complaint that there may have been a possible violation of...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, female, Greenland, MARKETING; Research articles 2008-08-28
Environment drives fashion sense: lady damselflies aren't just mimicking the male color: MINNEAPOLIS -- It's not the sexual harassment. It's the sunshine. That's Idelle Cooper's new take on the evolutionary force driving female Hawaiian damselflies to dress like males. The slim bodies of male Megalagrion calliphya damselflies shine fire-engine red, says Cooper, of Indiana University in Bloomington. Species-wide, half the females have...; Tags: Cooper, environment, female, Harassment, Minneapolis; Research articles 2008-07-19
EGYPT: MIDDLE EAST GENDER EQUALITY GETS A BOOST WITH NEW GENDER PARITY GROUP.: Fifty influential female and male leaders have formed a Middle East Gender Parity Group to tackle discrimination and close the gap between the sexes. "This is the Middle East's first high-level group of both female and male decision-makers working together to achieve gender equality in the...; Tags: female, women, World Economic Forum; Research articles 2008-05-19
Twin fates: sharing the womb with a brother may influence a girl's development: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] KELLY KLUMP IS A CURLY-HAIRED, COMPACT WOMAN WHO IS FASCINATED BY EATING disorders. Her own habits are healthy, but as a high school "peer counselor" she found herself besieged by girls struggling with the addictive starvation of anorexia nervosa and the compulsive binge-and-purge of bulimia. Now a...; Tags: Emory University, female, HARDWARE, Mice, mouse; Research articles 2008-05-10

Octopus relations studied: SAN FRANCISCO -- Wild octopuses are far from the shy, unromantic loners their captive brethren appear to be, a new study finds. Marine biologists from the University of California, Berkeley, who journeyed off the coast of Indonesia to study octopus love lives found a kinky and violent...; Tags: female, FINANCE, Investment, University of California at Berkeley; Research articles 2008-04-03
How the hummingbird got his whistle: PARIS AFP — American zoologists say they can settle a long-running debate about how male hummingbirds are able to whistle at females of the species to try to entice them into mating. The Anna's hummingbird Calypte anna, native to the US West Coast, makes the brief but loud chirp...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, feather, female, MARKETING, species; Research articles 2008-01-29
'Money' won't buy you laughs: Mad Money ** Stars: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson Director: Callie Khouri Distributor: Overture Films Rating: PG-13 for sexual material and language and...; Tags: Federal Reserve Bank, female, job, laugh, Queen; Research articles 2008-01-18
Spring comes early for Max the stork: GENEVA AFP — Max the stork, currently the oldest animal being tracked by satellite, is flying north after a remarkably short winter sojourn in southern Spain, a natural history museum in Switzerland said Wednesday. The female white stork -- fitted with a tracking device since it left its maternal...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, female, Geneva, NETWORKING, Switzerland; Research articles 2008-01-16
Cost of coitus: Male monkeys pay for sex: PARIS AFP — Selling sex is said to be humankind's oldest profession but it may have deep evolutionary roots, according to a study into our primate cousins which found that male macaques pay for intercourse by using grooming as a currency. Michael Gumert of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, female; Research articles 2008-01-02
China's female 'Rooney' may miss Olympics, China Daily reports: BEIJING AFP — Ma Xiaoxu, dubbed China's female "Wayne Rooney" because of her prodigious talent, may miss playing in next year's Olympics after seriously injuring her knee, a press report said Friday. Ma is likely to be sidelined for at least six months with what team doctors fear may...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Beijing, China, female, team; Research articles 2007-12-20
Genes, not just hormones, make sexes behave differently: PARIS AFP — Differences between males and females in behaviour are usually chalked up to sex-specific hormones, but a study released Sunday shows that genes play a critical role too. Experiments at Yale University with mice revealed that sex chromosomes alone are enough to account for the fact that...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, female, gene, HARDWARE, Mice, mouse, Yale University; Research articles 2007-10-21
Poll: Blacks split between Clinton, Obama: WASHINGTON -- Blacks are split down the middle over Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, seeing both as on their side, a new poll says. At the same time, blacks and whites have starkly different perceptions of Obamas credentials, the Associated Press-Ipsos poll said...; Tags: Democrat, female, MARKETING, Obama, president, senator, White House; Research articles 2007-10-04
Survive then thrive: determinants of success in the economics Ph.D. program: I. INTRODUCTION Every spring, admission committees review a pile of applications to select candidates for their Ph.D. programs. Beyond normal attrition, Economics departments clearly have a stake in seeing a significant proportion of students finish the program. Aside from whatever resources may accrue to departments with high completion rates,...; Tags: alphA, Econ, Female, G., Syracuse University, theory; Research articles 2007-10-01
Gender-bending bugs take battle of sexes to new heights: PARIS AFP — Sexual relationships between humans may be complicated but they are nothing compared to the bizarre sex life of the African bat bug, the British weekly New Scientist reports in next Saturday's issue. Renowned among entomologists for a particularly horrible form of reproduction, these insects have now...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, female, scientist; Research articles 2007-09-19
Bear fact: The bite is worse than the bark: PARIS AFP — When a male grizzly rubs a pine tree with his backside, it's not to satisfy an itch but to ward off competition while he looks for a female, according to unusual research to be unveiled next week. By leaving his scent on a "rub tree," explained...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, female, GPS; Research articles 2007-09-04
Screamfest '07: Hit rapper T.I. below makes his young female fans scream with delight as he performs his smash, Big Things Poppin, 'in concert at Allstate Arena near Chicago, a stop on this summer's "Screamfest '07" tour. Sexy singer-dancer Clara I, the first female to co-headline the Screamfest tour, struts her stuff...; Tags: Allstate Corp., Chicago, Denver, female; Research articles 2007-09-03
Brazil reviving endangered Amazon manatee: RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Brazilian scientists hope that two captivity-raised male Amazon manatees they plan to reintroduce to the wild will spark a bout of reproduction that might save the endangered species from extinction. In February 2008 scientists at the National Amazon Research Institute INPA plan to take...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Amazon.com Inc., female, Manufacturing, reproduction, researcher, scientist; Research articles 2007-08-24
'Hidden' facial features make man sexy: study: PARIS AFP — Forget jutting jaws, pheromones or hypnotic stares. What has made men sexy since they lived in caves could well be a foreshortened face, according to a new study. Theories abound as to why humans are attracted to each other, and on the role facial features might...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, female, theory; Research articles 2007-08-14
Great Bustard lays eggs in Britain for first time in 175 years: LONDON AFP — The world's heaviest flying bird, the Great Bustard, has laid its first eggs in Britain in 175 years, conservationists who re-introduced the species here said. The Great Bustard Group GBG said a female of the species, which can weigh up to 40 pounds (18.1 kilogrammes) and...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Britain, female, Government, SOFTWARE, species; Research articles 2007-07-24