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    Who men and women prefer as their co-workers

    Most Americans say it doesn’t matter if their co-workers are men or women. But for those with a preference, men say they would rather work with men—and women say the same.

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    Chapter 3: What Men, Women Value in a Job

    The gender gap may open wide on many issues, but the new Pew Research Center survey finds that men and women generally agree about what they value in a job. Overall, Americans give their highest priority to having a job they enjoy doing (43% say this is “extremely important” to them). About a third of […]

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    Global Religious Diversity

    A new report measures religious diversity by the percentage of each country’s population in eight categories — Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, the unaffiliated, folk religionists and members of other religions.

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    The More-Hopeful Theses

    This report reflects the responses to the sixth Future of the Internet survey, a canvassing of experts about their attitudes on the likely future impacts of evolving communications networks. Experts’ remarks in the previous five surveys generally expressed enthusiasm about the potential benefits of technological evolution. In this, the 2014 survey, their optimistic responses are […]

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    T-Tipped

    As free trade negotiations with Europe proceed, Americans seem predisposed toward trade liberalization, especially with the European Union. But concerns about the impact of trade on wages and jobs and a generational pivot toward Asia suggest that TTIP is not a slam dunk.

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    Chapter 3: How Do Mothers Spend Their Time at Home?

    Mothers who are not working for pay spend more time, on average, on child care and housework than do working mothers, but they also have more time for leisure and sleep, according to a new Pew Research analysis of pooled data from the 2003-2012 American Time Use Survey. Stay-at-home mothers spend an average of 18 […]

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    Local TV audiences bounce back

    Bucking a long-range trend of declining viewership, the audience for local TV news grew in all three major time slots in 2013.

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    Chapter 4: Men and Women at Work

    About one-in-seven adults—14%—who have ever been employed say they have been the victim of gender discrimination on the job at some point in their working lives, the Pew Research survey found. Women, Baby Boomers and blacks are more likely than men, Millennials and whites or Hispanics to say they have been the victims of job-related […]