Hacker News with Generative AI: Gender

Magic Circle tries to track down first female member – who posed as a man (theguardian.com)
The council meeting of the Magic Circle on 9 October 1991 was a historic occasion, marking the moment when the first cohort of women, including Debbie McGee and Fay Presto, were admitted to its previously male-only ranks of magicians.

Magic, Gender, History, United Kingdom, Entertainment

33 points by Emigre_ 10 days ago | 47 comments

Age-Normalized Testosterone Peaks at Series B for Male Startup Founders (twitter.com)

Startup Funding, Startups, Gender, Biology, Venture Capital

7 points by Mdubrov 12 days ago | 0 comments

Study finds intense exercise may suppress appetite in healthy humans (endocrine.org)
A vigorous workout does more to suppress hunger levels in healthy adults than does moderate exercise, and females may be especially susceptible to this response, according to a small study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.

Health, Exercise, Appetite, Physiology, Gender

33 points by gnabgib 15 days ago | 12 comments

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (celestemdavis.substack.com)
“Nearly 60 percent of all college students today are women. That’s an all-time high… U.S. colleges and universities have lost about 1.5 million students in the past several years. Men accounted for 71 percent of that loss.”

Education, Gender, Demographics, College Enrollment, Social Issues

15 points by hui-zheng 30 days ago | 10 comments

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (celestemdavis.substack.com)
“Nearly 60 percent of all college students today are women. That’s an all-time high… U.S. colleges and universities have lost about 1.5 million students in the past several years. Men accounted for 71 percent of that loss.”

Education, Gender, Demographics

16 points by herbertl 41 days ago | 16 comments

How Often Do Men Think About Rome? (astralcodexten.com)
There’s a Twitter meme on how men constantly think about the Roman Empire. Some feminist friends objected that women think about Rome a lot too. To settle the matter, I included a question about this on this year’s ACX survey, “Have you thought about the Roman Empire in the past 24 hours?” (the Byzantine Empire also counted). Here are responses from 607 cis women and 4,925 cis men:

Social Media, Gender, Survey Results, History, Roman Empire

5 points by paulpauper 58 days ago | 3 comments

"Stockholm Syndrome" was invented by police to discredit a female hostage (2020) (stadafa.com)
The phrase “Stockholm Syndrome” was invented by a police psychiatrist to discredit a female hostage in a 1973 bank heist who criticized the police.

Psychology, Crime, History, Gender

91 points by simonebrunozzi 69 days ago | 62 comments

Moral implications of being moderately successful computer scientist and a woman (sigops.org)

Ethics, Computer Science, Gender, Success

64 points by thread_id 76 days ago | 75 comments

Elon Musk supports replacing democracy with government of high-status males (independent.co.uk)

Elon Musk, Politics, Democracy, Gender

24 points by isaacfrond 79 days ago | 22 comments

Andrew Gelman: Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? (stat.columbia.edu)

Marriage, Happiness, Gender, Social Science, Statistics

52 points by paulpauper 80 days ago | 40 comments

Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? Or both? Or neither? (stat.columbia.edu)