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I guess it's no surprise.  We're passed over for promotions.  Not listened to at meetings.  Asked to plan and host office Christmas parties. Now a new study says that women CEOs are also often among the first to be fired.    Women CEOs are much more likely than male CEOs to be dismissed, even when the women are performing well, according to research from The University of Alabama (UA), newswise.com reports. Female CEOs are about 45 percent more likely than male CEOs to be dismissed from their firms, the web site adds. "Also, while performance improvements protect male CEOs from dismissal, they do not protect female CEOs, according to the study of public firms in the United States," it states. “Dismissing the CEO is usually viewed as evidence of good corporate governance as it suggests that the board is taking its monitoring role seriously, however our research reveals there are invisible, but serious, gender biases in how the board evaluates CEOs and i...

You're all probably too young to remember but many years ago, an expert of some sort came out with the idea that intelligence has to do with the emotions too and, in fact, wrote a book on it that earned him in the millions. He called it "emotional intelligence." Well, now, a new study has emerged that says kind of the same thing.  Intelligence is nothing without empathy (hmm, should we tell the Malicious-in-Chief?  But then we already know he doesn't have either). According to newswise.com, r esearch carried out at the University of Adelaide and the University of Bristol has examined long-held beliefs that success in school and careers is due to more than just high intelligence. Non-cognitive skills are also important. "The study, published in the journal  Nature Human Behaviour  is the first to systematically review the entire literature on effects of non-cognitive skills in children aged 12 or under, on later outcomes in their lives such as academic ...

Do you take a lot of sick days ?  Of course, these days that might not be so wise! But a new study has found that taking them may depend on where you live and who you know. According to newswise.com, " N ew research led by  Lijun Song , associate professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, and graduate student Phillip Pettis suggests that knowing people in high and diverse positions may be good or bad for your health. The culprit? Economic inequality." The web site reports that  Song studies the relationship between a person’s health and the socioeconomic status of their social contacts—what’s called “accessed” status. The idea is that we all have a personal network—consisting of family, friends, relatives, neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances and others—and the status of our social contacts can impact our lives through our relationships with them. She and Pettis analyzed nationally representative data from comprehensive social surveys simultaneously taken in ...

We've heard it constantly.  Fake news.  Fake news.  Fake news. I'm sick of it!  But now a new study has found that even neutral fact-checking of a president who has lied or misstated truths over 6000 times in his 18 months in office still won't convince a lot of people that he's the one spouting the fake news, doesn't convince voters to abandon what some call, however erroneously,  "fake news." According to newswise.com, i f you’re having a political argument about voter fraud, you’d think that citing a nonpartisan, neutral source like Snopes or Politifact might be the best way to correct misinformation.  "Not so, according to a Tulane University  study  that found Republicans and Democrats weren’t persuaded to abandon false beliefs about election fraud after reading correct information from fact-checking organizations," the web site reports. What did work? Surprisingly, both sides were most persuaded when the factual information was bel...