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Quantification of Gender Bias and Sentiment Toward Political Leaders Over 20 Years of Kenyan News Using Natural Language Processing

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Background: Despite a 2010 Kenyan constitutional amendment limiting members of elected public bodies to < two-thirds of the same gender, only 22 percent of the 12th Parliament members inaugurated in 2017 were women.
Emma Pair, Nikitha Vicas, Ann M. Weber, Valerie Meausoone, James Zou, Amos Njuguna, Gary L. Darmstadt   +6 more
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GENDER EQUALITY-THE NEED OF THE HOUR

, 2020
Gender Equality is a very important thing needed for the development of a country. Gender equality has been convincingly appeared to invigorate economic growth, which is crucial for low-income countries. Gender equality among women and men alludes to the
Mrs.S.Shanthi, Kakarla Sai Mitravinda
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Cross-sectoral learnings on emerging gender and social norms measures

, 2023
As part of the Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems (HER+) Initiative under the One CGIAR, scientists from the International Food Policy Research Institute, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and FHI 360 ...
CGIAR Gender Equality Initiative
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Who claims the rights to livestock? Gendered patterns of asset holdings in smallholder households in Uganda

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2023
Although data on livestock ownership are often collected at the household level, not all household members have the same rights over the livestock. In this paper, we investigate the gendered patterns of livestock ownership in smallholder households in ...
Marya Hillesland, Cheryl Doss, Vanya Slavchevska, Martina Querejeta   +3 more
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Gender Barriers to Immunization: A Synthesis of UNICEF’s Analyses to Advance Equity and Coverage

Vaccines
Background/objectives: Despite global efforts to improve childhood immunization rates, gender-related barriers continue to hinder equitable access to vaccines worldwide.
Cristián Mansilla, Alinane Kamlongera, Ibrahim Dadari   +2 more
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"It will be a weapon in my hand”: The Protective Potential of Education for Adolescent Syrian Refugee Girls in Lebanon

Refuge, 2020
This study uses over 140 first-person narratives from adolescent Syrian girls and Syrian parents displaced to Lebanon and literature from the Education in Emergencies (EiE) field to examine the concept of the protective potential of education.
Stephanie Chow Garbern, Shaimaa Helal, Saja Michael, Nikkole J. Turgeon, Susan Bartels   +4 more
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Efficacy and Safety Analysis of Roxarestat in Regulating Renal Anemia in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
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Of Money and Men: A Scoping Review to Map Gender Barriers to Immunization Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Vaccines
Among the multiple factors impeding equitable childhood immunization coverage in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), gender barriers stand out as perhaps the most universal.
Anna Kalbarczyk, Natasha Brownlee, Elizabeth Katz   +2 more
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Prognosis of Long‐Term Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy and the Impact of Combined Continuous Intravenous Sodium Infusion Therapy

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Patients requiring long‐term continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) generally have poor prognoses. This study evaluated whether adding continuous intravenous sodium infusion (cIVNa) is associated with improved hemodynamics and outcomes in patients undergoing long‐term CRRT for ≥ 7 days.
Akinori Yamaguchi, Atsuyoshi Mita, Kosuke Sonoda, Makoto Harada, Koji Hashimoto, Hiroshi Imamura, Yuji Kamijo   +6 more
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The Economic Effects of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

LSE Public Policy Review
This article discusses evidence on the economic costs of sexual harassment. We first review the available data sources that allow researchers to measure these costs.
Caroline Coly, Margaux Suteau
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