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Women are more affected by bad news and can also remember the details better than their male counterparts, according to new research.

A job can increase the risk of depression in both men and women, but for different reasons, a new study from Canada suggests.

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By analyzing 2 billion anonymous telephone calls and 500,000 text messages, researchers have reached a better understanding of who men and women choose as their best and second-best friends.

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While theories about race, gender, and math ability among high school students have long been debated, a recent study found that math teachers are in fact, unjustifiably biased toward their white male students.

In workplaces with a high percentage of women in a management position more individualized employee feedback is carried out, more democratic decisions are adopted and more interpersonal channels of communications are established, according to a...

New research by scientists from the University of Bristol has found that men and women see things differently.

Using Google Books, a team at San Diego State University examined over a million books published in the United States between 1900 and 2008 to determine how frequently female pronouns appeared compared to male pronouns.

Muscular men obsessed with their bodies are significantly more likely to have meathead attitudes towards women, according to researchers.

The trouble, according to a pair of new studies by Diana Betz and Denise Sekaquaptewa at the University of Michigan, is that girlie science role models can backfire, actually putting off girls who have little existing interest in science and maths subjects.

A Colorado father of six, who was admitted to the hospital for a kidney stone received life-changing news when the nurse came back with test results that revealing he was actually a woman.

One of the most persistent stereotypes around is that men are funnier than women.

Women who face unexplained health problems are almost twice as likely to check online before going to the doctor, according to a new study which also revealed that one in four British women has misdiagnosed themselves on the internet.

According to a recent survey of two thousand women, a staggering 25 percent would rather win America’s Next Top Model than a Nobel Prize. Picking beauty over brains might be a bit shallow, but is it also a bad choice? In other words: is being attractive a blessing or a curse?