"nurturing" and "affectionate." The researchers say this shows that "gender stereotypes" have influenced the opinions of the players about women.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Dorothy Height received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal for her work for racial and gender equality.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

A separate study has found that age, gender and where a person has extra body fat may affect the risk of migraine.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

"To the world out there who conducted those pseudo tests to test our gender, they can stuff their insult.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

That large data set allowed them to analyze information for the 50 U.S.states separately, and also to identify trends by race and gender.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The most serious abuses include extra-judicial executions and wide scale rapes and sexually based gender violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

She told the gathering it is time to stop all the talk about gender parity, and to take steps to ensure it happens soon.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

He says poverty, gender inequality, and conflict contribute to human trafficking, but it is the demand for unreasonably cheap labor and cheap goods that drive this unscrupulous trade.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Mr.Obama said he ran for president to put the American Dream in the United States, within the reach of everyone regardless of their gender,race, faith or station in life.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

From Kenya to Cape Verde, Clinton spoke of the link between economic progress and good governance, respect for the rule of law especially as it relates to gender and sexual-based violence.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

As the conference opened Sunday with a session on gender issues, Namibian lawmaker Nora Schimming-Chase said the number of women delegates has steadily declined since hitting a peak four years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

UNICEF's Lake said even in Senegal, where the number of public schools has doubled in the last decade, there is still work to be done to achieve gender equality in schools.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

Many Senate Republicans say they are troubled by the remark, as it suggests the federal appeals court judge is inclined to consider race and gender in judicial decisions rather than adhering to an impartial application of the law.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

Lake is one of 200 scholars, government officials, civil society workers and development partners in Dakar this week for a conference organized by the UN Girls' Education Initiative, an international partnership aimed at achieving gender equality and universal primary school education by 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

While the House bill would immediately bar private insurance companies from denying coverage or raising insurance premiums based on age or gender, the Senate would wait until 2014 for this to take effect, except for children who would be covered immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25