Almost Half Of Owners/ Managers Of UK Businesses Say Women Are Unfairly Represented In The Boardroom

As the U.S. continues to fall behind countries such as China and India in producing high-level scientists, one immediate and obvious solution would be to take advantage of the many women who have obtained doctoral degrees in science but have been passed over in their attempts to rise to the position of tenured professor, according to a provocative editorial in the November 2007 issue of DNA and Cell Biology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert.

Pregnant women who have no access to maternity leave are more likely to have mental health problems than those who do.

A Gallup poll recently confirmed that men and women both believe that it is women who are most likely to possess the gift of gab. Some even believe that women are biologically built for conversation. This widespread belief is challenged in research published by SAGE in the November issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review.

A woman who walks with a seductive sway of her hips is unlikely to be ovulating, a finding that sheds light on the complex sexual signals that women give to men, New Scientist reports.

Women look at themselves in the mirror every 30 minutes on average, with men not far behind, according to a survey. The online survey of 2,000 people was conducted in the UK by Transformulas beauty company.

Smoking is a more harmful behavior for women compared to men, especially in regards to the risk of developing COPD.

Nearly one in three of the 400 largest public companies headquartered in California – including household names Apple, Callaway Golf and Skechers USA – have no women at the top, according to a study reported today by University of California, Davis, researchers. At the other end of the spectrum, five firms, led by the Los Angeles-based Nara Bancorp, have women in 35 percent to 46 percent of their top posts.

In a new study published in Industrial Relations, Lisa K. Jepsen of the The University of Northern Iowa takes a step towards determining if homosexual employees are compensated differently by comparing their earnings with those of heterosexuals in similar living situations.

The national alliance of Women In Film (WIF) and the General Motors Corporation (GM) announce the launch today of Traction, an innovative and unique online magazine by and for women in the entertainment industry.

New research out of the University of Cincinnati finds that the more times are changing, the more the traditional gender roles between husbands and wives remain the same.

According to a new study, women with breast implants were three times more likely to commit suicide or to die from drug or alcohol-related causes than other women.