Hacker News with Generative AI: Gender Differences

Eye-tracking study reveals where women and men look when viewing a female butt (psypost.org)
A recent study published in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery has shed light on the subconscious visual preferences people have regarding the appearance of buttocks.
Eye-tracking, Science, Human Behavior, Gender Differences, Body Image
17 points by austinallegro 11 days ago | 4 comments
Link between social media and depression stronger in teen girls than boys (cnn.com)
Mental Health, Social Media, Teenagers, Gender Differences
9 points by andrewstetsenko 88 days ago | 0 comments
Men have grown twice as much as women over past century, study shows (theguardian.com)
Amid the profound changes humanity has witnessed, one might be forgiven for failing to notice a rise in sexy and formidable men: those tall, broad-shouldered types that are strangers to self-doubt.
Human Biology, Gender Differences, Demographics, Social Change
13 points by pseudolus 122 days ago | 0 comments
Testing for gender differences in Python programming style and quality on GitHub (academic.oup.com)
The underrepresentation of women in open-source software is frequently attributed to women’s lack of innate aptitude compared to men: natural gender differences in technical ability (Trinkenreich et al., 2021). Approaching code as a form of communication, I conduct a novel empirical study of gender differences in Python programming on GitHub.
Gender Differences, Programming, Open Source, GitHub, Research
35 points by bomewish 205 days ago | 92 comments
Modeling sex-specific whole-body metabolic responses to feeding and fasting (sciencedirect.com)
Men generally favor carbohydrate metabolism, while women lean towards lipid metabolism, resulting in significant sex-based differences in energy oxidation across various metabolic states such as fasting and feeding.
Science, Biology, Metabolism, Gender Differences, Nutrition
4 points by gnabgib 227 days ago | 0 comments
Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls' brains more than boys', study finds (theguardian.com)
Adolescent girls who lived through Covid lockdowns experienced more rapid brain ageing than boys, according to data that suggests the social restrictions had a disproportionate impact on them.
Covid-19, Neuroscience, Gender Differences, Health, Social Impact
8 points by pseudolus 256 days ago | 0 comments