Washington, June 5 (ANI): Women who looked cheerful are judged as having less leadership willingness, while those proud ones are positively associated with leadership qualities, a new study has found.

Washington, May 29 (ANI): Men and women will lie about their sexual behavior to match cultural expectations about how they should act - even though they wouldn't distort other gender-related behaviors, a new research has suggested.

Washington, May 8 (ANI): A new study has revealed yet another reason why women still tend to be under-represented at the highest echelons of many organizations.

Washington, May 02(ANI): PepsiCo has pulled a controversial online ad for Mountain Dew soft drink after it was criticized for portraying racial stereotypes and making light of violence toward women.

Washington, April 11 (ANI): Feelings of power can diffuse the debilitating effects of negative stereotypes, according to a new research from social psychologists at Indiana University Bloomington.

Washington, Mar 9 (ANI): More women than men in the US report higher levels of work stress, with some women saying that extra strain came from countering the stereotypes surrounding mothers in the workplace, a new survey has revealed.

New York, Feb. 16 (ANI): The newest edition of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue is in hot water, after critics charged that the global pictorials are racist and reinforce bad stereotypes.

Washington, February 13 (ANI): Boys' performance on an academic task is affected by messages that suggest that girls will do better than they will, a new research has concluded.

London, Feb 8 (ANI): Men are the tidier than women, as 66 percent of them spend eight hours or more on household chores compared to just 62 percent of the fairer sex, a new survey has revealed.

New York, Feb. 5 (ANI): Cultural stereotypes inform that it's mostly men who cheat on their wives or girlfriends and not the other way around, but clinical research details that nearly as many women cheat as their counterpart.

London, January 1 (ANI): It's been said that life begins at 40, but it might be more accurate to say that mid-life begins at 40.

Islamabad, Dec. 10 (ANI): In a bid to challenge stereotypes about gender roles, as many as 50 young Pakistani girls engaged themselves in day-long activities of rock climbing, camping and cooking.

Washington, December 4 (ANI): A new study on the connections between race and gender - a phenomenon called gendered race - has revealed unexpected ways in which stereotypes affect our personal and professional decisions.

London, Dec. 1 (ANI): France is all set to make sweeping changes to its sexual equality laws, in order to ensure equal rights for men and women, a minister has announced.

London, Dec. 1 (ANI): Britons pride themselves on avoiding sexist behaviour at work but they happily revert back to their gender stereotypes at home, a study has claimed.

Washington, October 18 (ANI): Studies analysing gender stereotypes in the media have shown that photographs of men focus on male faces while photographs of women are more focused on women's bodies.

London, Oct. 15 (ANI): Sexist stereotypes, humiliating photographs of women and male bylines dominate the front pages of British newspapers, according to a research.

Dubai, October 10 (ANI): Rani Mukherjee has claimed that her new movie 'Aiyyaa', which will be out in cinemas this Thursday, will break stereotypes that are attached to South Indians.

Wellington, October 8 (ANI): The seemingly endless interest in surveying women's attitude towards sex comes down to the stereotypes that are still happily bounced around in our "enlightened, post sealed section society" that "women lie back and think of England, men are always up for it", a sex therapist has claimed.

London, September 5 (ANI): A leading economist has thrown the popular 'Lipstick Effect' theory into doubt, suggesting that the research behind it is based on 'over-generalised gender stereotypes'.

Washington, July 19 (ANI): A Baylor University study has revealed that fans of Facebook hate groups, while using new media to target President Obama and his family, are relying heavily on old stereotypes of blacks as animalist, evil or shiftless - including depictions of the President as a chimp or sporting a bandana and a mouth full of gold teeth.

New York, July 18 (ANI): Ms. Wheelchair New York, Danielle Sheypuk has proved that being disabled does not mean that people can't go out clubbing or date other people.

Melbourne, July 12 (ANI): A "FAT pride" conference, which will start on Thursday, today will hear how "fat subjects" are presented as "enemies of the state" and "weightism" is used to deny fat people their human rights.

Washington, May 9 (ANI): They have been stereotyped as a 'model minority' but when they fail to conform to common racial stereotypes, like being non-dominant, even people of East Asian descent are "unwelcome and unwanted by their co-workers," according to a new study.

Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): Hearing that you are a member of an elite group - of chess players or scholars - may not necessarily enhance your performance on tasks related to your alleged area of expertise, researchers say.