This article examines the consequences of stereotypical beliefs regarding gender, traits, and leadership styles for manager preferences.

Grammatical gender is famously the most puzzling of the grammatical categories. We have a solid typology of gender systems, yet exciting and unexpected patterns keep turning up which defy easy classification and straightforward analysis. Some of these question, stretch or threaten to cross the outer…

This book presents a new framework for regulating human-like machines designed for emotional and sexual engagement, often powered by AI.

On 28 June 2018, Qiuyin Hu defended his doctoral thesis 'Regulating Working Conditions in Times of Globalization'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof.dr. G.J.J. Heerma van Voss and Prof. dr. B. Barentsen.

The primary goal of GAP is to study the impact of globalization and internationalization policies and practices on the gender balance in research and higher education in Norway.

In this article, James Shires and Tatiana Tropina, assistant professors at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, map the relationship between gender equality and cybersecurity governance as a component of good security sector governance (SSG). Here, it highlights the way in which cybersecurity…

Does student and teacher gender affect students’ performance and what is the role of gender stereotypes in this relation?

In this article in 'The Senses and Society' Jasmijn Rana discusses how women learn to move, use their bodies, and become a different kind of being than men. She focuses on the embodiment of gender in recreational running environments.

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In this article, Dimiter Toshkov aims to explains the gender gap in COVID-19 vaccination attitudes.

How does the development of digital technologies impact society, and law/regulation within that society?

This project contests the assumption of criminologists that gender differences in recorded crime are static over time and that women are in general less likely to commit a crime than men.

The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.

‘Going Beyond Gender’ reveals how diverse women's experiences and backgrounds can be and how this diversity can affect their opportunities and career in academia. The entire film was recorded in and around the Kamerlingh Onnes Building as well as the Academy Building. The five women featured in the…

The central aim is examining gender differences in recorded crime, particularly in relation to interpersonal violence, in early modern Bologna.

A growing global concern is that automated recognition systems may exacerbate and reinforce existing biases that different societies have with respect to gender, age, race, and sexual orientation. Questions around the consequences of automated gender recognition are particularly poorly understood and…

This book explores the boundaries of the category of gender and their theoretical significance within the framework of Canonical Typology.

From street harassment to coercive control: gender-based violence has many faces. University Lecturer Mischa Dekker has studied street harassment in the Netherlands and France, and supports institutions and organisations in embedding structural change.

This article discusses the impact of symbolic gender representation on the willingness of citizens to coproduce.

Studies on representative bureaucracy have often confirmed the positive performance effects of bureaucracies mirroring the demographic characteristics of their clientele. However, little is known about the underlying individual level mechanisms leading to these outcomes.

Aspects of Religious Leadership in Europe, 1100-2000

This volume is pubished in the IMISCOE-AUP Series and edited by Marlou Schrover and Deirdre M. Moloney.

On July 5th, Mulugeta Tarekegne Tsegaye succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Mulugeta on this great result.

Level, Bargelaan 180, 2333 CW, Leiden

Sylvius, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE, Leiden

Oort, Niels Bohrweg 2, 2333 CA, Leiden

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Gender sidestreaming? Analysing gender mainstreaming in national militaries and international peacekeeping

Reuvens, Reuvensplaats 2-4, 2311 BE, Leiden

Gorlaeus Building, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden

Wijnhaven, Turfmarkt 99, 2511 DP, The Hague

Lipsius, Cleveringaplaats 1, 2311 BD, Leiden

Arsenaal, Arsenaalstraat 1, 2311 CT, Leiden

Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333 CA, Leiden

Plexus Student Centre, Kaiserstraat 25, 2311 GN, Leiden

Reuvens, Reuvensplaats 2-4, 2311 BE, Leiden

Categories of gender and sexuality are the subject of heated debates in our everyday lives. To understand how systems of gender and sexuality operate, and why these are such contested areas we need to study these categories came about historically.

Kamerlingh Onnes Building, Steenschuur 25, 2311 ES, Leiden

What is the role of stress and stress-related hormones in emotion regulation?

This article investigates how parenthood serves as a critical turning point for young people in Latin America, influencing their criminal trajectories.

The proposed project evaluates how the vulnerability of migrant men and women was constructed in political, public and media discourses, and how differences in the constructed vulnerability influenced the decision to migrate, the migration process, and the subsequent settlement process.

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On the 23rd of March, Alessandro del Tomba successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Alessandro on this achievement!

FSW building, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK, Leiden

This study focuses on the local level impacts of a highly globalised industry: the international trade in tropical timber.

To what extent are individuals socialised with heteronormativity and gender norms by the national context in which they live, by Dutch schoolbooks, and within Dutch families?

Kantorowicz explores how gender stereotypes affect perceptions of leadership competence across crisis types, focusing on pandemic leadership traits.

LUMC Research Building, Einthovenweg 20, 2333 ZC, Leiden