Affirmative Action ( http://www.siop.org/AfirmAct/siopsaartoc.html ) - lengthy online report, Affirmative Action: A Review of Psychological and Behavioral Research, "prepared by a subcommittee of the Scientific Affairs Committee of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, October, 1996."
GenderNet ( http://www.worldbank.org/gender/ ) - From The World Bank Group, this site "seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development."
Tailhook '91 ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/navy/tailhook/ ) - PBS Frontline show on the Navy Tailhook Convention where "83 women and 7 men were assaulted during the three-day aviators' convention, according to a report by the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD)."
"Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity" ( http://www.ncwge.org/title9at30-6-11.pdf ) - (June, 2002) - in PDF - "Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity is a follow-up to the 1997 NCWGE publication, Title IX at 25: Report Card on Gender Equity. This new report reassesses the law five years later and examines the state of gender equity in education in ten key areas: access to higher education, athletics, career education, employment, learning environment, math and science, sexual harassment, standardized testing, technology, and treatment of pregnant and parenting students."
About-Face.org ( http://about-face.org/ ) - "a San Francisco-based group, About-Face combats negative and distorted images of women" - site contains hundreds of images of women, negatively and positively portrayed, with commentary. Also a few research articles and "lots o' links" to body image and other topics
"Rebranding the Hyena" ( http://www.sciencenews.org/20020427/bob10.asp ) - fascinating article on the social world of the hyena - The spotted hyena is one of the few mammals in which the female is the dominant sex. Also interesting is the research on the "immigrant male" who has left his original clan to attempt to join a new clan. Entering the clan at the bottom of the hierarchy, the immigrant males are even forced to adopt a submissive posture to tiny cubs. And, yet, DNA paternity testing found that "an astonishing 97 percent of cubs are fathered by immigrant males, even though they are outranked by the younger native males."
Influence of genes on social behavior of macaque monkeys
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/106567366/ABSTRACT http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/03/031204.primates.shtml
Very interesting article of "nature over nurture" in which "young monkeys reared by a mother other than their own are more likely to exhibit the aggressive or friendly behavior of their birth mothers rather than the behavior of their foster mothers, a University of Chicago researcher has shown for the first time." The first link is to an abstract of the article; the second link is to a press release about it.
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