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  2. Sex verification in sports - Wikipedia

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    Sex verification in sports (also known as gender verification, or as gender determination or a sex test) occurs because eligibility of athletes to compete is restricted whenever sporting events are limited to a single sex, which is generally the case, as well as when events are limited to mixed-sex teams of defined composition (e.g., most pairs ...

  3. Sex verification and intersex athletes at the Olympic Games

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    However her career ended after she learned about her intersex condition in 1996 and she was removed from the team. [26] In 1992, the majority of the sports federations under the IOC stopped performing any type of gender testing, and the IOC itself replaced the chromosome testing with a DNA-based test.

  4. Strong Interest Inventory - Wikipedia

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    Before he created the inventory, Strong was the head of the Bureau of Educational Research at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Strong attended a seminar at the Carnegie Institute of Technology where a man by the name of Clarence S. Yoakum introduced the use of questionnaires in differentiating between people of various occupations.

  5. House passes bill to ban transgender students from women's sports

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    The bill, known as the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act," changes Title IX to recognize a person's sex as "based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth."

  6. Career Test Controversy - Is Testing Your Career Skills Valuable?

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    Career tests are available at job centers, universities and community schools for those who are unsure which career would suit them best. The tests vary with each school or job center, but are ...

  7. Transgender people in sports - Wikipedia

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    Transgender or non-binary student-athletes looking to compete in a team consistent with their gender identity in British Columbia must submit an application to the BC School Sports Executive Director, and are required to have a written statement from both the student-athlete and the principal of their high school confirming their gender identity.

  8. Women's sports - Wikipedia

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    Of the 934 local network affiliate news segments (over 12 hr of broadcasts), 880 were on men's sports (or approximately 11½ hr), 22 segments (or nearly 18 min) were on gender-neutral sports (e.g., a horse race, coverage of the Los Angeles [LA] marathon, and a recreational sports event), and only 32 segments (about 23 min) featured women's sports.

  9. Achievement gaps in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Researchers have found that the gender achievement gap has a large impact on the future career choices of high-achieving students. Part of this is a result of the college majors that men and women choose; men are more likely to major in engineering or the hard sciences, while women are more likely to receive degrees in English, psychology, or ...