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Views of healthcare professionals on gender roles: A qualitative study

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Problem: Gender equality is one of the most important determinants of health. Discriminatory interventions, values, beliefs, and prejudices of healthcare professionals during their service affect health adversely.
Zeynep Dilşah Karaçam Yilmaz   +2 more
doaj  

Subfield prestige and gender inequality in computing [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Women and people of color remain dramatically underrepresented among computing faculty, and improvements in demographic diversity are slow and uneven. Effective diversification strategies depend on quantifying the correlates, causes, and trends of diversity in the field. But field-level demographic changes are driven by subfield hiring dynamics because
arxiv  

Ph.D. in physics as a hurdle race, and the "glass hurdles" for women [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
On their way to an academic career in physics, Ph.D. students have to overcome difficulties at many levels. Beyond the intellectual challenge, there are also psychological, social and economic barriers. We studied the difficulties experienced by physics Ph.D. students in the Israeli universities, with special attention to gender-related issues.
arxiv  

Decriminalisation of gender-based violence is a global health problem

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2017
### Summary box In July 2017 the member states of the United Nations (UN) came together to review progress towards six of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including goal 3 (health) and goal 5 (gender equality).
J. Mannell, S. Hawkes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Culture, Gender, and Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Colombia [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
This study investigates the impact of integrating gender equality into the Colombian constitution of 1991 on attitudes towards gender equality, experiences of gender-based discrimination, and labor market participation. Using a difference-in-discontinuities framework, we compare individuals exposed to mandatory high school courses on the Constitution ...
arxiv  

Pay Transparency and Gender Equality [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Since 2018 UK firms with at least 250 employees have been mandated to publicly disclose gender equality indicators. Exploiting variations in this mandate across firm size and time we show that pay transparency closes 18 percent of the gender pay gap by reducing men's wage growth.
arxiv  

Theories of "Gender" in NLP Bias Research [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
The rise of concern around Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies containing and perpetuating social biases has led to a rich and rapidly growing area of research. Gender bias is one of the central biases being analyzed, but to date there is no comprehensive analysis of how "gender" is theorized in the field.
arxiv  

Gender and health social enterprises in Africa: a research agenda

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Health social enterprises in Africa working with community health workers (CHWs) are growing rapidly but understudied. In particular, gender equality issues related to their work has important public health and equity implications.
Kevin McKague, Sarah Harrison
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