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		<title>The Perils of Toy Shopping With a Feminist Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three generations of women walk into a toy shop. The older woman’s goal is simple: to find a fabulous toy for a little girl. It aligns exactly with the goals of the child, recently turned 3 and freshly aware of the thrill of buying stuff. But alas, the woman (me) in the middle of the generational sandwich has more complex goals. The toy must be fabulous, of course, but it must also do nothing to discourage the child (my daughter) from becoming a smart, ambitious citizen who can bust through glass ceilings to become a Sheryl Sandberg–like superwoman (ahem, if that’s what she wants). Lofty and unachievable goals for a Tuesday? Surely not. Thus I march my family through aisles of pink plastic to find educational toys in the bowels of the warehouse. It’s dark and dingy back there. “How about a floor puzzle?” I say optimistically. My mom’s face twists in doubt. “Construction blocks? This fractions game, perhaps?” (WATCH: Don’t Try to Buy This Girl a Princess Doll) Luckily, intergenerational warfare is postponed by the disappearance of my daughter. A frantic search finds her in the pink toy aisle, sitting inside a miniature car. The motorcar is plastic, it is pink, and it is branded by a well-known doll whose breasts are bigger than her feet. I’ve never seen my child so happy. Naturally I’m horrified. This busty doll, in whose brand my daughter has taken a sudden, zesty interest, is at the epicenter of feminist critique. After all, she glorifies superficiality and the kind of oversize homes last seen before the housing crash. Worse, she touts glittery pink products named Glam Vacuum Set! and Glam Laundry! As anyone with a mop knows, domestic duties are not Glam! Furthermore, the pinkness of the products bolsters the lie that housework is girls’ work. A vision of Sandberg’s book, Lean In — a feminist manifesto still fueling debate about women’s internal barriers to leadership — hovers before me. Sandberg argues that progress toward gender equality has stalled when it comes to heterosexual couples<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86468&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Girl&#8217;s Quest to Make the Easy-Bake Oven More Boy-Friendly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pink and purple are not 4-year-old Gavyn Boscio’s favorite colors. But cooking is, and he really, really wants an Easy-Bake Oven for Christmas. Easy-Bake Ovens, however, come in nothing but pink and light purple, as his parents and his 13-year-old sister, McKenna Pope, found out when they went shopping for one last week near their home in Garfield, N.J. Not only did they not find any Easy-Bake Ovens in any primary colors, but the products were displayed in boxes with smiling girls on the packaging. No boys. Not even one. McKenna, who is in eighth grade, was outraged. Her mother, Erica Boscio, recalls her saying the packaging of the mini-ovens was “detrimental to society.” “She really talks like that,” says Boscio. You might think that in the enlightened, gender-neutral era in which we live — where boys are encouraged to cry and girls hurtle into space — that boys would be included in advertising for a toy oven. Males, after all, still outnumber women as professional chefs in restaurant kitchens. “This perpetuates that whole situation where girls cook and boys don’t,” says McKenna, who thoroughly researched the oven’s apparent antipathy to boys by watching every ad she could find online (all girls as far as she could tell) and perusing Hasbro’s Easy-Bake FAQs, which describe the product as a “fashionable fun food brand that inspires tween girls to bake, share and show their creativity.” Tween girls? “That put her over the top,” says Boscio. “She said, Mom, I have to do something about this. I’m going to film a video.” (MORE: Why Are Parents Less Likely to Take Little Girls Outside to Play?) On Wednesday, she uploaded to YouTube the short clip featuring young Gavyn unfortunately buying into traditional gender stereotypes and slapped a petition on Change.org. She&#8217;s not a newcomer to the site; earlier this year, McKenna got her introduction to how social-media can trigger change when she added her signature to a petition about Trayvon Martin. In her Easy-Bake statement, she provided evidence for her brother’s zest for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75182&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In a Rush to Mature: Study Finds Boys Hitting Puberty Earlier than Ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puberty usually hits boys later than girls, at an average age of 11. But according to new research published in the journal Pediatrics, U.S. boys are now experiencing the first signs of sexual maturation &#8212; genital growth, testicular enlargement, and the appearance of pubic hair &#8212; roughly 6 months to 2 years earlier than boys at similar ages just a few decades ago. Pediatricians now find that the earliest stage of male puberty occurs, on average, at age of 10.14 years among non-Hispanic whites, at 10.4 years among Hispanics, and at just 9.14 years among African Americans. &#8220;All parents need to know whether their sons are maturing within the contemporary age range, but, until now, this has not been known for U.S. boys,&#8221; pediatrics researcher and study author Richard Wasserman said in a statement. MORE: Girls, Interrupted This new research comes from the very same group that showed, almost 15 years ago, that girls in the U.S. are hitting puberty earlier than they used to as well. In a landmark paper in 1997, scholars and clinicians from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings program (PROS) showed that girls were reporting their first menstrual period and breast development 6 months to a year earlier than outdated clinical textbooks were listing as the average maturation age at the time. That trend toward earlier puberty in girls is now widely accepted. But, until now, it hasn&#8217;t been clear whether boys were part of the earlier sexual maturity as well. That&#8217;s because boys don&#8217;t have the same kind of clear, easily measured marker of puberty onset as the first period, or menarche.  For boys, the first signs of puberty appear more gradually, including those outcomes measured in this new Pediatrics study: testicle growth, penis growth, and the emergence of pubic hair. Testicular growth, for example, is much harder for the pediatrician to assess quickly by sight alone than, say, breast development is in girls. For these reasons, until now, researchers have simply had less data about puberty timing among males than among females, and researchers<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=72089&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Testosterone, the Power Hormone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Blue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the Arab Spring, religious Crusades and Europe&#8217;s revolutions of 1848 have in common? All were fueled by a surplus of hapless young men, according to Karin Kneissl — an Austrian academic, author, and political analyst. In her new German-language book, Testosteron macht Politik (crude translation: &#8220;Testosterone Makes Politics&#8221;), Kneissl lays out her case for the primary male sex hormone as a driver of world affairs. She spoke with TIME about the book. An abbreviated version of the conversation follows: TIME: So far your book is out only in German, so I suspect most of our readers won&#8217;t have heard of it before. How would you explain it to them? Kneissl: I started to work on the idea last year, while watching the first [images] of revolutionaries in Egypt. I thought that maybe one of the factors triggering that wave of violence, disobedience or riot was a biological one. My hypothesis is the following: a young man who has no possibility to channel his energy — or his testosterone — is able to disregard risk. All humans have testosterone, but of course men have a higher level of it. I also talked with historians of, for example, the [European] revolutions of 1848, and of the Crusade times. In these chapters of riot and revolution, we always have the problem of angry young men that you can&#8217;t channel otherwise. I&#8217;ve been a teacher in some Arab universities and I remember lots of young men complaining in the last 10, 15 years that they simply can&#8217;t afford to marry. For those men, not getting married means no access to a girlfriend, a woman, because of rigid social morals — and you have a number who remain bachelors against their will. Because of social and economic reasons they can&#8217;t find work. They have no opportunity to channel that energy they have, and one outlet can be social riot. So I try to make my argument with references to the Arab world. I don&#8217;t reduce my argument to those events, but I was<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=64852&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Women Watch the Olympics (But Tune Out Other Sports)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s because women are just too busy. The Olympic Games come packaged in bite-size, easy-to-digest chunks, but a regular sports season lasts for months — what woman has time to follow that? Read more on TIME.com&#8217;s Olympics blog.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=63548&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think You&#8217;re All That? You Might Be Putting Your Health at Risk</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/24/think-youre-all-that-you-might-be-putting-your-health-at-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows somebody like this: the self-obsessed, self-congratulatory type with an outsize sense of entitlement and a deluded sense of superiority. He turns every conversation back to himself, prattling on about his own opinions and thoughts, but never deigns to ask about you. That narcissistic personality can take a toll — and not just on the listeners. It turns out that the more narcissistic a person is, the more likely he (and, yes, it&#8217;s especially true of men) is to have health problems like heart disease and hypertension. Sara Konrath, a psychologist at University of Michigan, studied 106 male and female undergraduate students, measuring their levels of narcissism and the stress hormone cortisol. Previous studies have found that people who score high on the narcissism scale show elevated levels of cortisol when threatened. So Konrath and her colleagues wanted to plumb the cortisol connection more deeply, to see if narcissists have higher levels of the stress hormone overall. MORE: Narcissists Know They&#8217;re Obnoxious, But Love Themselves All the Same Indeed, that’s what they found. The researchers measured cortisol levels in the students’ saliva and then gave them a 40-item questionnaire to assess their narcissistic tendencies. The test assessed variously adaptive forms of narcissism: some narcissistic qualities can be useful, leading to stronger leadership and authority skills as well as self-confidence, while others are less so because they are more focused on exploitation and entitlement. Interestingly, Konrath and her team found that people who scored higher on the exploitative aspects of narcissism showed higher levels of cortisol, while those who scored higher on the more positive aspects of narcissism did not. And the trend was more pronounced in men than in women, probably due to the fact that more men tend to be narcissistic. The consequences of chronically high cortisol levels have been well documented in previous studies. Cortisol, which tends to rise when people feel threatened or anxious, activates the body&#8217;s stress response, elevating the heart rate, sharpening the senses and burning a lot of energy to keep the body<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=52086&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Sissy Boy&#8217; Experiment: Why Gender-Related Cases Call for Scientists&#8217; Humility</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/08/the-sissy-boy-experiment-why-gender-related-cases-call-for-scientists-humility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the most harrowing cases of psychological and medical malpractice involve attempts to change a child&#8217;s gender or sexual identity. Not only have such misguided &#8220;therapies&#8221; often resulted in patients&#8217; suicides, but they also repeatedly appear to foster scientific misconduct. In back-to-back shows on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is exploring the tragic case history of Kirk Andrew Murphy. His story has been cited as evidence that the use of punitive behavioral therapy can prevent &#8220;sissy boys&#8221; from growing up gay. But Murphy&#8217;s family believes such &#8220;therapy&#8221; ultimately led to his suicide. (More on TIME.com: The Protective Effect of Family Acceptance for Gay Teens) As a child, Murphy preferred playing with dolls and engaging in other stereotypically &#8220;girly&#8221; activities. Concerned that he was not &#8220;normal,&#8221; his mother took him to a young doctoral student at University of California-Los Angeles named George Rekers, who claimed to be able to prevent such boys from becoming gay. If Rekers&#8217; name sounds familiar, it may be because he has long crusaded against homosexuality as a founder of the conservative Family Research Council. It may also be because in 2010, he was photographed in the company of a male prostitute, Jo-Vanni Roman, whom he hired from Rentboy.com to accompany him on vacation. (Rekers continues to deny that he is gay or that he was sexually involved with Roman; Roman says otherwise.) Whatever did or didn&#8217;t happen between Rekers and Roman, Rekers&#8217; research has long been used to oppose gay rights and to support efforts to &#8220;convert&#8221; men to heterosexuality. Back in 1974, Rekers published the case history of Kirk Andrew Murphy, to whom the author referred by the pseudonym &#8220;Kraig.&#8221; The paper claimed that after having been rewarded by his mother for &#8220;masculine&#8221; behavior and punished by his father (with harsh beatings, the family has revealed) for stereotypically feminine acts, Kraig was no longer effeminate and was now like &#8220;any other boy.&#8221; (Note: Rekers&#8217; co-author on the paper was O. Ivar Lovaas, who would later develop Applied Behavior Analysis, a widely used<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=35468&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Masculinity, a Delicate Flower</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/05/masculinity-a-delicate-flower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 16:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meredith Melnick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://healthland.time.com/?p=32492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Real men are made, not born — so goes the conventional wisdom. In other words, manhood is a social status, something a guy earned historically, through brutal tests of physical endurance or other risky demonstrations of toughness that mark the transition from boyhood to manhood. But while that masculinity is hard-won, it can be easily lost. Once earned, men have to continue proving their worth through manly action. In modern society, that may no longer mean, say, killing the meatiest wooly mammoth, but there are equivalent displays of masculinity: earning a decent living or protecting one&#8217;s family. One misstep — losing a job, for instance, or letting someone down — and that gender identity slips away. (More on TIME.com:  &#8220;Can a Simple Writing Exercise Close the Gender Gap?&#8221;) The phenomenon helps explain why men are so touchy about their masculinity. Women don&#8217;t have the same problem, of course. Womanhood is largely seen as something innate, immutable: girls become women through puberty; once achieved, womanhood sticks. In a series of studies, psychologists Jennifer K. Bosson and Joseph A. Vandello at the University of South Florida decided to probe this idea further. Specifically, they wanted to know, do modern men still use physical action and aggression to prove their manhood? In one study, the researchers had asked participants to fill in 25 sentence stems that began either &#8220;A real man&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;A real woman&#8230;&#8221; The results, as described in a subsequent paper published recently in Current Directions in Psychological Science: [J]udges coded the sentence completions according to whether they contained actions (e.g., momentary behaviors that people do, such as &#8220;drives a flashy car&#8221;) or adjectives (e.g., enduring qualities that cannot be lost, such as &#8220;is honest&#8221;). Findings revealed that men, but not women, described &#8220;a real man&#8221; with more fleeting actions than enduring adjectives, and they described &#8220;a real woman&#8221; with more enduring adjectives than fleeting actions. Notably, this pattern emerged when we controlled for the gender-stereotypical content of the sentence completions. When men completed &#8220;real man&#8221; sentences with gender atypical content<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=32492&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Protective Effect of Family Acceptance for Gay Teens</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2010/12/06/the-protective-effect-of-family-acceptance-for-gay-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the acceptance of gay, lesbian and bisexual teens continues to grow — albeit gradually — study after study consistently shows that many of these adolescents still experience considerable rejection from the very source they crave acceptance most: their families. Now a study reveals for the first time the impact that a supportive family can have on the physical and mental health of gay, lesbian and bisexual children. Researchers led by Caitlin Ryan, director of the Family Acceptance Project, a research, education and policy initiative designed to better understand the role that sexual orientation has on family dynamics, found that teens from families who supported their sexual orientation were less likely to abuse drugs, experience depression or attempt suicide than those in less accepting families. The teens in the more supportive environments also self-reported higher levels of self-esteem and self-worth. (More on Time.com: Cyberbullying? Homophobia? Tyler Clementi&#8217;s Death Highlights Online Lawlessness) That acceptance from their families can have a positive effect on teens isn’t surprising, but what sets the new study apart is the fact that Ryan and her colleagues were able to define specific behaviors by parents and family that were perceived as being either accepting or rejecting of teens&#8217; sexual orientation, and to connect these behaviors to mental and health outcomes in kids. Ryan points out, for example, that parents who tried to show support by attempting to change their children’s sexual preferences — in order to help their children become more accepted in school and society — were instead perceived as rejecting their child’s individuality and sexual expression. “What we showed was that by trying to prevent a child from learning about their sexual identity or from being part of support groups, or by telling them they are ashamed of them or not talking about their sexual identity, these kinds of reactions are rejecting behaviors that are all linked to negative health and mental health outcomes in children when they become adults,” says Ryan. (More on Time.com: &#8216;It Gets Better&#8217;: Wisdom From Grown-Up Gays and Lesbians to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=18504&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lab Rat: Can a Simple Writing Exercise Close the Gender Gap?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/29/the-lab-rat-can-a-simple-writing-exercise-close-the-gender-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cloud</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gender gap in incomes has narrowed in recent years, and there’s some evidence that the recession has been easier on women’s jobs than on men’s — although that might be because women earn less. But women are still way behind in the fields of science and technology: in 2006, only 28% of the Ph.D.s awarded in physical sciences were earned by women. Women quit Ph.D. programs in science and tech fields nearly 10% more often than men. Now a study published Nov. 26 in Science suggests a way to address this problem before it starts. The study posits that the gender gap is at least partly due to a psychological phenomenon called stereotype threat. “Becoming aware that one could be seen in light of a negative stereotype about one’s group has been shown to undermine performance on difficult tests,” the paper says. The theory is that if you are worried about confirming a stereotype, your worry will distract you from performing well, so you will — ironically — help validate the very idea you are perturbed about. (More on Time.com: Explaining the Complicated Women + Math Formula) In the new paper, whose first author is Akira Miyake of the department of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he and five colleagues looked at whether a psychological intervention called values affirmation could reduce the gender gap in test scores in a large, basic physics class for undergraduates at his university. Values affirmation is an exercise that involves writing for 15 minutes about principles that are important to you. The idea is that if you reflect on self-defining values before a test, you won’t be as vulnerable to a psychological threat like stereotyping. Miyake and his colleagues randomly assigned 399 students — 116 of them women — into either the values-affirmation exercise or a control exercise in which students were asked to write about values important to other people but not important to them. The students did this twice, once in the first week of class and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=17486&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Reason to Hire Female CEOs: Less Testosterone</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/09/another-reason-to-hire-female-ceos-testosterone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Belinda Luscombe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young male CEOs’ hormones sometimes get the better of their economic reasoning. Especially around the issues of merging and acquiring. So more companies should have women CEOs. At least that’s the way we&#8217;re reading a new study from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.The study, which is in the current issue of the journal Management Science, looks at the outcomes of 350 mergers and acquisitions dating back to the 1997. It found that younger, and by implication, more testosterone-laden male CEOS behaved differently, and sometimes less in accord with sound business principles, than their older brethren. I know what you&#8217;re thinking: If the researchers really wanted to  control for testosterone, why didn&#8217;t they compare the behavior of male CEOs to female CEOs? Oh, that’s right. The way young male CEOs handle mergers and acquisitions may remind some people of the way young males tend to date. They are more aggressive — 4% more likely to initiate an attempt to acquire another company. But they&#8217;re also way more wary of commitment — 20% more likely to give up on the whole deal if things aren&#8217;t going the way they like. And finally they&#8217;re 2% more likely to be caught in a tender offer, which sounds more enticing than it really is. It means that when the CEO spurns a bid, the suitor tries to go around them straight to the board. Kind of like getting a guy&#8217;s parents and friends to get him to call you back. Except it might work. The study follows a much remarked upon Cambridge University study that found that testosterone affected the behavior exhibited by stock traders — and increased their profits. Other research, however, has shown that the hormone also makes people more reasonable. &#8220;Testosterone is a very powerful hormone and it affects behavior in a wide variety of circumstances,&#8221; said the study&#8217;s author Maurice Levi, who has previously researched the effect female boardmembers had on mergers and acquisitions. His conclusions on that front were kind of a draw: if<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=7508&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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