According to a latest study, alcohol is the social icebreaker. Researchers have found that moderate amount of alcohol when consumed in social groups, helps people boost their emotions and enhances social bonding. Also, it can reduce negative emotions or at least reduce the display of it by being silent in a group.
While the gender fight to determine who is stronger and smarter has been an unresolved issue, a recent study on IQ goes in favor of women. According to a study conducted by James Flynn, considered one of the foremost experts on intelligence testing, women are smarter than men, at least according to standard IQ test. Flynn has been researching IQ level data of past 100 years and he says that many a people in developed countries are getting smarter over the years, about three points more than aver...
According to a Commonwealth Fund, U.S. women are much more likely to struggle with medical bills and go without needed care than women in countries with universal coverage.
Partnership in families is still missing with mother taking major responsibilities
According to an ABC News report, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying.
Saudi Arabia will be sending two female athletes to the summer Olympic games set to start later this month.
After many a reports and researches on the ill effects of skin getting sunburned, here is something quite contrary to the previous findings.
A new study finds women prefer the Olympic Games over sports with long seasons.
A woman who survived a double mastectomy and says wearing a bathing suit covering her chest causes searing pain has won a battle to swim topless at Seattle's public pools.
It is not only teens and young women who are struggling with eating disorders. A new study found that the problems are very common even among middle-aged and older women. ...
Rockville, Md. – Studies have consistently reported that women require reading glasses or bifocal lenses earlier than men. According to a recent Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science paper, the gender difference is caused by factors other than focusing ability, such as arm length or preferred reading distance, which should be considered when prescribing readers or bifocals.
New research suggests that overall happiness in life is more related to how much you are respected and admired by those around you, not to the status that comes from how much money you have stashed in your bank account.
People make complex judgements about a person from looking at their face that are based on a range of factors beyond simply their race and gender, according to findings of new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Adult lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to report childhood abuse and adult sexual assault than heterosexual women, according to a new study by Dr. Keren Lehavot from the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle, USA and her collaborators. Furthermore, the researchers' work shows that women who are more butch report more abuse in childhood, particularly physical and emotional neglect, while women who identify as femme, and have a more feminine appearance, report more adult sexual...
According to the University of Michigan Health System’s new research, the gender pay gap in the United States is common. The research revealed that even women physician-scientists are paid almost $12,000 less than their male counterparts per year.