Tag: GENDER

To most people, Wikipedia represents the ultimate in egalitarian encyclopedias. It's a place where any Internet user can go to add their own knowledge on virtually any subject in the world, regardless of individual expertise or background. But recent statistics show that, in spite of its intrinsic openness, Wikipedia's playing ground may not be as level as it seems -- especially when it comes ...

The conventional stereotypes of girls' involvement with technology are being assaulted from every angle these days, as more girls enter the tech industry and flock to games like 'World of Warcraft.' Now, the Lower East Side Girls Club is trying to change the perception that robotics engineering is just for the boys. Girlzilla was created by 11 girls from low-income families for the Howl! Arts ...

Ah, menstruation. That wonderfully cyclical occurrence that women always discuss with knowing nods, and that men do their best to not think about. But thanks to designer Hiromi Ozaki, formerly clueless guys can now experience the menstrual experience first hand, in all its splendor. Cheers all around. Ozaki, you see, has designed something called the 'Menstruation Machine,' which consists of a ...

In March, industry analysts from Forrester Research found that only 41-percent of all Web-surfing Americans know the exact speed of their broadband connection. While that figure may seem low to some, it wasn't that surprising, given the fact that determining connection speeds is an inexact science at best. But a new survey from the FCC shows confirms only about one in five American users know just ...

Share Men may be from Mars, and women may hail from Venus, but this age-old interplanetary divide may soon be lessening -- and not because of ANTM's Isis King or Chaz Bono's fake stubble. As the Guardian reports, scientists at Barcelona University recently gave male volunteers virtual reality headsets in order to transfer them into women's bodies in an attempt to further examine human ...

A new study might change the way video game developers think when it comes to designing characters. If the data has an impact, you might see females saving the world from certain doom, or Latino and black characters portrayed as heroes instead of drug dealers or football players. LiveScience reports that researchers at the University of Southern California have discovered that females and ...

It turns out all those cliches about women being more expressive than men are true...kind of. Researchers at Indiana University studied 1,164 text messages posted on Italy's interactive television music channel Allmusic and found the texts sent from women were more expressive than those of their male counterparts. This came as a surprise, since research shows that, in social situations, men ...

When it comes to careers in tech, it's still a man's world. According to Susan Merritt, the dean of the computer science program at Pace University in New York, only 10 percent of computing majors are women. One of the suggested reasons for such low interest among women could be that, as kids, boys are more likely to be interested in video games than girls, and gaming activity often leads to an ...