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Title |
Mother's occupation and sex ratio at birth
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, May 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-10-269 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Kathreen E Ruckstuhl, Grant P Colijn, Volodymyr Amiot, Erin Vinish |
Abstract |
Many women are working outside of the home, occupying a multitude of jobs with varying degrees of responsibilities and levels of psychological stress. We investigated whether different job types in women are associated with child sex at birth, with the hypothesis that women in job types, which are categorized as "high psychological stress" jobs, would be more likely to give birth to a daughter than a son, as females are less vulnerable to unfavourable conditions during conception, pregnancy and after parturition, and are less costly to carry to term. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 6 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | 33% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |
Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 3 | 50% |
Scientists | 2 | 33% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 76 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Croatia | 1 | 1% |
Germany | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 74 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Bachelor | 12 | 16% |
Researcher | 10 | 13% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 12% |
Student > Master | 9 | 12% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 9% |
Other | 14 | 18% |
Unknown | 15 | 20% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 17 | 22% |
Psychology | 15 | 20% |
Social Sciences | 9 | 12% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 7% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 5% |
Other | 8 | 11% |
Unknown | 18 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 November 2023.
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#1,378,561
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,524
of 16,434 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,337
of 100,839 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#14
of 76 outputs
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