Ciekawostka: Women blink nearly twice as much as men

Evidence: 59 • authority: 92

Aversive responses to stereotypic science and math-based (STEM) images predict women's long-term STEM memories and underperformance in math.. Social identity threat (SIT) is a situational stressor that increases arousal and negative affect, biases memory encoding towards domain-specific negative affect, and impairs women’s performance in contexts where they are outnumbered by men. One consequence of these effects could be that women develop learned aversions towards stigmatized domains in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM). Four studies tested whether stereotypic STEM images (STEMIs) prompt aversive-like responses that predict SIT-like outcomes, including underperformanc…

Evidence: 58 • authority: 80

Figure 27. Women have a much lower pension than men

Evidence: 58 • authority: 80

Minority women are nearly twice as likely as white women to not receive needed postoperative treatments for early-stage breast cancer

Evidence: 58 • authority: 80

Sexual Violence, Rape Culture, and the Ethics of Care in Promising Young Woman (2020), Blink Twice (2024), and Women Talking (2022)

Evidence: 58 • authority: 80

Women who smoke have nearly twice the risk of developing Graves' hyperthyroidism than nonsmokers

Evidence: 58 • authority: 80

Women having surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysm are nearly twice as likely to die as men

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