A 2008 study published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine, designed to gauge gender disparities among emergency room patients complaining of abdominal pain, found that even after adjusting for race, class and triage assessment, women were still 13 to 25 percent less likely than men to receive high-strength "opioid" pain medication.
To see if the men felt they measured up to societal masculinity standards (aka, gauge gender role discrepancy), the researchers asked them how much they agreed with statements like, "I am less masculine than the average guy" and "Most women I know would say that I'm not as masculine as my friends".
Amartya Sen, the ebullient Nobel Prize-winning economist, developed a gauge of gender inequality that is a striking reminder of the stakes involved.
By the summer of 2017, Abby had crossed an invisible line, and most new people she met correctly gauged her gender, calling her "Ma'am" or "Miss".
Purpose/Objective: This joint assessment was commissioned in 2008 by the UN system in Djibouti to gauge the extent of gender mainstreaming in the 2003-2007 UNDAF.
This joint assessment was commissioned in 2008 by the UN system in Djibouti to gauge the extent of gender mainstreaming in the 2003-2007 UNDAF.
They then constructed a mathematical model that gauged how well biological factors, such as age, gender, sleep duration, and social jet lag could predict body weight.
The screens include a face-detection camera gauging the age and gender of customers, with that data plus location and time of day used to determine what ads they see.
To achieve reference values for computerized strain-gauge plethysmography (SGP), to assess reproducibility, and to evaluate the influence of different factors such as age, gender, body mass index, and symptomatic post-thrombotic disease on commonly used variables.
The Bechdel test is an irresistibly simple gauge of female representation and gender inequality in film.
Asked to gauge the impact of the gender studies, Ilene H. Lang, the president and chief executive of Catalyst, a New York-based nonprofit women-centered organization with 500 international members, said, "These reports are important because they shine a light on how half the world's population fares".
