Banded mongooses live in mixed-sex groups of 7-40 individuals (average around 20).
It is unusual to see mixed-sex groups as the Emirati society is quite segregated.
Towards late adolescence, cliques often merge into mixed-sex groups as teenagers begin romantically engaging with one another.
With the shift of time and customs, "brothers" in English is thought by many to be an inappropriate word to denote a mixed-sex group.
I expected a young, primarily female crowd, but instead I joined an older, mixed-sex group lining up.
Second, these same results should be stronger in mixed-sex groups working on a masculine task because the status beliefs should be even more salient.
A recent meta-analysis found that men are more talkative than women in general but that the difference is even greater in mixed-sex groups.
When it was a mixed-sex group, and the person at the head of the table was male, again the students reliably chose him as the leader.
Another study observed performance in unisex and mixed-sex groups of children.
(When discussing mixed-sex groups, the plural of the masculine noun is used.)