Williams and Ceci (2015)sought to Determine If Gender Biases Exist

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Williams and Ceci (2015) sought to determine if gender biases exist in academic hiring practices.They studied almost 1,000 professors in a mock hiring situation in which each professor read the files of several job applicants and then rank-ordered the applicants in terms of most-to-least qualified.What the professors did not know was that the gender of the job applicants was randomly assigned to the professors.That is,if one professor read that job applicant A was a woman,another professor read that the same job applicant A was a man.As a result,an average rating of each applicant could be compared when that applicant was presented as a male and as a female.The authors reported that:

• A)academic professors had a bias for hiring male applicants.
• B)academic professors had a bias for hiring female applicants.
• C)gender biases existed for the hard sciences such as biology but not for the social sciences
• D)no systematic gender biases were observed among the academic professors.

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Understand the complexities of adult parent-child relationships, including caregiving and support dynamics.

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Definitions:

Motherhood

The state or experience of having and raising a child or children, encompassing a wide range of physical, emotional, and social challenges and rewards.

Psychological Problems

Mental health conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, behavior, and ability to relate to others.

Urge to Be Thin

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Anorexics

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