This study utilizes discursive data to examine how the strategic use of narratives inform policies that shape women's participation in milita ry service overall and more specific, the current controversy over exclusion of women from pa rticipation in combat roles within the U.S. military. ...
Sexual size dimorphism has motivated a large body of research on mammalian mating strategies and sexual selection. Despite some contrary evidence, the narrative that larger males are the norm in mammals—upheld since Darwin’s Descent of Man—still domin
All initiated courtships resulted in oviposition except two cases when females laid unfertilised eggs without a male. In both cases courtship was interrupted by external disturbances (e.g. territorial fighting between males, biting ants, or several females trying to mate with the same male simultane...
When there is a poor fit between gender role expression and gender role expectations in the workplace, self-esteem often declines (Chusmir & Koberg, 1991; Gyllensten & Palmer, 2005; Isaac et al., 2012). Gender roles are typically categorized into agentic, traditionally male values of being ...