Perpetuation of gender discrimination in Pakistani society: results from a scoping review and qualitative study conducted in three provinces of Pakistan [PDF]
BMC Women's Health, 2022 Background Gender discrimination is any unequal treatment of a person based on their sex. Women and girls are most likely to experience the negative impact of gender discrimination.
Tazeen Saeed Ali +8 more
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Perceptions of gender-based discrimination during surgical training and practice [PDF]
Medical Education Online, 2015 Background: Women represent 15% of practicing general surgeons. Gender-based discrimination has been implicated as discouraging women from surgery. We sought to determine women's perceptions of gender-based discrimination in the surgical training and ...
Adrienne N. Bruce +4 more
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Gender Discrimination Among Academic Physicians [PDF]
Women's Health Reports, 2020 Background: There is a growing body of literature showing that gender discrimination impacts physicians' work and life experiences. Impact on income, promotion, and parenthood has been documented.
Candace J. Chow +2 more
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Maternal gender discrimination and child emotional and behavioural problems: A population-based, longitudinal cohort study in the Czech Republic [PDF]
EClinicalMedicine, 2022 Summary: Background: Gender discrimination may be a novel mechanism through which gender inequality negatively affects the health of women and girls.
Irena Stepanikova +5 more
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The relationship between gender discrimination and wellbeing in middle-aged and older women. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundEmerging evidence suggests that perceived gender discrimination negatively impacts mental wellbeing in young women.PurposeThis study explored whether a similar relationship exists in middle-aged and older women.MethodsA total of 3081 women ...
Ruth A Hackett +2 more
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How do we measure gender discrimination? Proposing a construct of gender discrimination through a systematic scoping review [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background Gender discrimination (GD) has been frequently linked to mental health. The heterogeneity of how GD is defined has led to variation around the analysis of GD. This might affect the study of the association between GD and health outcomes.
Laura de la Torre-Pérez +3 more
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Multidimensional gender discrimination in workplace and depressive symptoms. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 BackgroundDiscrimination is associated with depressive symptoms and other negative health effects, but little is known about the mental health risks of workplace gender discrimination.
Gaeul Kim +6 more
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Gender discrimination and personal and professional development fostered by allopathic medical schools in the United States. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBackgroundDespite prevalent gender discrimination in medical education, its influence on personal and professional development, foundational competencies in medical training per the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), remains unclear.
Shruthi Venkataraman +8 more
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Impact of perceived familial gender discrimination and entrapment on the mental health of female emerging adults [PDF]
Discover Mental HealthThis study investigates the impact of perceived familial gender discrimination (PFGD) and entrapment on the mental health of emerging female adults in India.
Kanwal Shergill, Himangini Rathore Hooja
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The effects of gender discrimination on medical students‘ choice of specialty for their (junior) residency – a survey among medical students in Germany [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Gender discrimination is known to affect societies in many different settings. Medical education is no exception. This study focusses on the consequences, gender discrimination can have on medical students and their choice of (junior ...
Jule Stock, Andrea Kaifie
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