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Reproductive Health, 2021 Plain language summary Adolescent girls face a range of challenges that may compromise their chances of completing school or their sexual and reproductive health.
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Social Sciences, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark focus the economic inequities faced by precarious, criminalized and racialized workers. Sex workers have been historically excluded from structural supports due to criminalization and occupational stigma ...
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Gender Culture and Gender Gap in Employment [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure culture by building two indices: one based on individual attitudes, as done in the existing literature; one based on firms’ attitudes. Firms’ beliefs, which express their set of ideas, values and norms, though generally neglected, are
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Mimetic Machines in the Uncanny Valley
Identities, 2021 Uncanny valley (不 気 味 の 谷 ) is a notion introduced by the Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori in 1970. The basic claim of his hypothesis states that the anthropomorphic machines cause uncanny effect due to their imperfect resemblance to the human ...
Identities Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture +1 more
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Impact of sex and gender on COVID-19 outcomes in Europe
Biology of Sex Differences, 2020 Background Emerging evidence from China suggests that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is deadlier for infected men than women with a 2.8% fatality rate being reported in Chinese men versus 1.7% in women.
C. Gebhard +4 more
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Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks
Population Ecology, EarlyView.Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu +3 more
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‘Stranger Danger’ and the Gendered/Racialised Construction of Threats in Humanitarianism
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021 Humanitarian, development and peacebuilding work has become increasingly dangerous in recent decades. The securitisation of aid has been critiqued, alongside the racialised and gendered dynamics of security provision for aid actors.
Megan Daigle +2 more
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Trials, 2022 Background Young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are disproportionately impacted by the HIV epidemic in the USA, and a large number of new infections among YMSM occur in the context of main or primary partnerships.
Michael E. Newcomb +14 more
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COVID‐19 and the gender gap in work hours
Gender, Work & Organization, 2020 School and day care closures due to the COVID‐19 pandemic have increased caregiving responsibilities for working parents. As a result, many have changed their work hours to meet these growing demands.
Caitlyn Collins +3 more
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Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014 Sex differences in medicine include sex-specific diseases occurring only in one sex and sex-related diseases that are more common to one sex. Indeed differences in incidence, presentation, and course of disease between males and females are common. Eye disease is no exception. According to the WHO website, “In every region of the world and at all ages,
Janet L. Davis +3 more
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