Researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Bern in Switzerland have conducted the first cross-temporal, ...

Despite workplace gains for women, gender stereotypes continue worldwide. A large study explains how social roles keep them ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kim Elsesser covers issues that impact women in the workplace. With accessibility to screen media on the rise, even babies and ...

Dupree (@CydneyDupree) is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Yale University and a Public Voices fellow with the OpEd Project. As the United States celebrates its the second year ...

Gender stereotypes are views about how members of a specific gender should behave or which attributes they should have. Examples include females being stereotyped as more emotional than males. Gender ...

Not all gender stereotypes about science, technology, engineering, and math are the same, according to a new study. The research analyzed dozens of previous studies on the beliefs that children hold ...

Source: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID fsac.1a34951. Stereotypes have a bad reputation, and for good reasons.

Governments, schools and companies keep track of your race. The statistics are used to track the proportion of blacks and whites who graduate from school. They tell us how many people identify ...

We’ve all heard the stereotypes before. The Greatest Generation is “responsible and hard-working”; Baby Boomers are “selfish”; Gen Xers are “cynical and disaffected”; Millennials are “entitled and ...

In his 1922 book "Public Opinion," journalist Walter Lippmann introduced the word "stereotype" as a metaphor for a mental picture people form based on cultural notions. For example, some stereotypes ...