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Mother's occupation and sex ratio at birth

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, May 2010
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2 blogs
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Title
Mother's occupation and sex ratio at birth
Published in
BMC Public Health, May 2010
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-10-269
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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.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Croatia 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 74 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
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 %
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

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
of 24,796,076 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#1,524
of 16,434 outputs
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#4,337
of 100,839 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#14
of 76 outputs
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