Word: gendered
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...political leadership, and will directly fund the Barbara Lee Women in U.S. Politics Training Program and Lecture Series. This initiative is part of a larger program, titled “From Harvard Square to the Oval Office,” focused on training women to succeed in politics despite gender imbalances, according to Victoria Budson, executive director of Women in Public Policy Program (WAPPP). The program invites female political leaders to speak with students “behind closed doors” about their experiences as women in the electoral process and facilitates skill-training sessions with the nation?...
...Gender Bent,” magazine...
...between hunters and gatherers is, for the most part, a sexual one: 50,000 years ago, men single-mindedly focused on their prey in the sub-Saharan plain while women became adept at multi-tasking, gathering a variety of foods and ensuring the safety of their offspring. Our current gender-stratified social system did not emerge from a philosophical abyss; it evolved over tens of thousands of years as a function of the behavioral characteristics that allowed us to coexist and thrive as hunter-gatherers...
...these reasons, it is unsurprising to find statistical evidence that men and women reason differently. While men excel at spatial tasks and mathematical reasoning, women tend to perform better on tests of perceptual speed and mathematical calculations. This is not to say one gender is smarter than another—or that one can accurately predict the behavior or ability of individuals—but rather that sex differences correlate with differences in the means of the respective populations...
Differences in innate behaviors and aptitudes do not make one gender superior to the other; instead, contrasts benefit both genders by equipping the two to work best together, like a lock and key. Men and women bring to the table different skills that make them able to accomplish more as a mixed gender team than alone...