Gender Content

Whose Farm, Which Fork?

Karen Michele Nikos — September 15, 2022 - 12:14pm

This is an excerpt of an essay first printed earlier this year in BOOM Magazine discussing lack of equity in the "Farm-to-Fork" discussions.

Women’s Leadership Can Help Drive Climate Solutions

Katherine E Kerlin — August 16, 2022 - 1:06pm

Women’s leadership and gender equity can help drive climate solutions and reduce carbon emissions, according to studies summarized by WECAN and the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis ModLab.

Women Gain More Political and Economic Power, but Gender Gap Persists

Karen Michele Nikos — August 09, 2019 - 11:15am

While women have made great strides in entering the workforce, running companies and getting elected to Congress, there remains a persistent gender gap in attitudes about equality between men and women, suggests a University of California, Davis, study.

Women Write Women’s History

Karen Michele Nikos — December 20, 2018 - 4:34pm

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor and Lisa Materson of the University of California, Davis, collaborators in research and teaching of women’s and gender history for 10 years, were keenly aware of many fascinating stories about women in history, as uncovered by female historians.

But getting those stories into the big narratives of history was more than one or two people could accomplish.

Then Oxford University Press asked the 51�ԹϺ�� Davis scholars, both associate professors of history in the College of Letters and Science, to create a women’s history handbook.

Despite Social Development, Gender Attitudes Chart Different Course Globally

Karen Michele Nikos — August 13, 2018 - 12:55pm

In the half century since the birth of the women’s movement in the West in the 1960s, support for gender equality has spread around the globe — but in uneven ways

Study Debunks Gender Performance Gap in Online Video Games

Andy Fell — June 20, 2016 - 12:13pm

Online video games are increasingly popular with women, but stereotypes persist. A new 51�ԹϺ�� Davis-led study of two large online gamer communities shows that female gamers progress at the same rate as men once confounding factors are taken into account.

Mating market trumps biology in relationships

IET WebDev — January 14, 2015 - 10:00am

The popularly held sexual stereotype concludes that men want as many partners as possible, and women want stability and commitment. But what men and women want from relationships also depends heavily on the supply of potential partners, according to a University of California, Davis, study.

The study found that in communities where men outnumbered women, men were much more likely to be looking for a committed, long-term relationship.