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Catfight? Workplace conflicts between women get bad rap

Feb. 25, 2013 | Filed under: Business, Law and Society, Media Release, News Feed | Tags: business, conflict, Equality, gender, intercultural understanding, karl aquino, Leah Sheppard, management, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Division, Psychology, research, sauder school of business, Social Science, study, women, workplace

A new UBC study suggests troubling perceptions exist when it comes to women involved in disputes at work.

Fashion is a feminist issue

Feb. 6, 2013 | Filed under: Arts and Humanities, UBC Reports Stories | Tags: fashion, feminism, gender, gender and women's studies, Ilya Parkins, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, UBC's Okanagan campus, women's studies

UBC prof. studies style to shed light on wider issues in society

Happy guys finish last, says new study on sexual attractiveness

May. 24, 2011 | Filed under: Media Release, News Feed, Uncategorized | Tags: Alec Beall, bad boys, business, Culture, emotions, evolution, gender, happiness, health, Jessica Tracy, marketing, Marlon Brando, pride, Psychology, relationships, research, Robert Pattinson, Science, sex, sexual attraction, shame, Social Sciences

Women find happy guys significantly less sexually attractive than swaggering or brooding men, according to a new University of British Columbia study that helps to explain the enduring allure of “bad boys” and other iconic gender types.

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