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Gender Equity in Oceanography

Annual Review of Marine Science, 2022
Gender equity, providing for full participation of people of all genders in the oceanographic workforce, is an important goal for the continued success of the oceanographic enterprise. Here we describe historical obstructions to gender equity, assess recent progress and the current status of gender equity in oceanography by examining quantitative ...
Sonya Legg, Caixia Wang, Ellen Kappel, LuAnne Thompson   +3 more
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Sex work community participation in criminalized environments: a community-based cohort study of occupational health impacts in Vancouver, Canada: 2010–2019

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Sex work criminalization and occupational stigma pose barriers to sex workers’ access to support services, including community participation — engagement with sex work specific community organizing at both formalized and grassroots capacities.
Jennie Pearson, Kate Shannon, Bronwyn McBride, Andrea Krüsi, Sylvia Machat, Melissa Braschel, Shira Goldenberg   +6 more
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Barriers to Governmental Income Supports for Sex Workers during COVID-19: Results of a Community-Based Cohort in Metro Vancouver

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 ...
Jennie Pearson, Kate Shannon, Andrea Krüsi, Melissa Braschel, Jennifer McDermid, Brittany Bingham, Shira M. Goldenberg   +6 more
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Gender equity in health [PDF]

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, 2000
There is international and local recognition that social and economic factors play a significant role in determining health and well being. Recent policy developments by NSW Health in men’s and women’s health have been based on this recognition.
Andrew, Gow, Elena, Murty
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How client criminalisation under end-demand sex work laws shapes the occupational health and safety of sex workers in Metro Vancouver, Canada: a qualitative study

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives In 2014, Canada implemented end-demand sex work legislation that criminalises clients and third parties (eg, managers, security personnel, etc) involved in sex work.
Kate Shannon, Bronwyn McBride, Shira M Goldenberg, Andrea Krüsi, Jennifer McDermid, Alka Murphy, Sherry Wu   +6 more
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Seeing pre-screened, regular clients associated with lower odds of workplace sexual violence and condom refusal amidst sex work criminalization: findings of a community-based cohort of sex workers in Metro Vancouver, Canada (2010-2019)

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Research that accurately represents how characteristics of sex work clients relate to sex workers’ labour conditions is crucial for informing evidence-based legislation which upholds sex workers’ human rights.
Bronwyn McBride, Kate Shannon, Jennie Pearson, Andrea Krüsi, Melissa Braschel, Shira M. Goldenberg   +5 more
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Engaging im/migrant communities in cross-sectoral health and immigration data linkage research.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives We aim to respond to health care barriers experienced by immigrant and migrant (im/migrant) communities through community-engaged research using population-based multi-sectoral linked health and immigration data, alongside qualitative methods.
Ruth Lavergne, Ruth Carillo, Shira Goldenberg, Selamawit Hagos, Stefanie Machado, Sandra Peterson, Elmira Tayyar, Padmini Thakore, Cecilia Sierra-Heredia, Susitha Wanigaratne, Mei-Ling Wiedmeyer   +10 more
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Effects of the reaching married adolescents program on modern contraceptive use and intimate partner violence: results of a cluster randomized controlled trial among married adolescent girls and their husbands in Dosso, Niger

Reproductive Health, 2023
Background Niger has the highest rate of adolescent fertility in the world, with early marriage, early childbearing and high gender inequity. This study assesses the impact of Reaching Married Adolescents (RMA), a gender-synchronized social behavioral ...
Jay G. Silverman, Mohamad I. Brooks, Sani Aliou, Nicole E. Johns, Sneha Challa, Abdoul Moumouni Nouhou, Shweta Tomar, Holly Baker, Sabrina C. Boyce, Lotus McDougal, Stephanie DeLong, Anita Raj   +11 more
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Digital Exclusion and the Structural Barriers to Safety Strategies among Men and Non-Binary Sex Workers Who Solicit Clients Online

Social Sciences, 2022
Background: Evidence shows that online solicitation facilitates sex workers’ ability to mitigate the risk of workplace violence. However, little is known about how end-demand sex work criminalization and the regulation of online sex work sites shape men ...
Brett Koenig, Alka Murphy, Spencer Johnston, Jennie Pearson, Rod Knight, Mark Gilbert, Kate Shannon, Andrea Krüsi   +7 more
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Evaluating a scalable ARCHES (Addressing Reproductive Coercion in Health Settings) model in government health facilities in Uasin Gishu county, Kenya: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial

Reproductive Health, 2023
Background Since 2013, the World Health Organization has recommended that reproductive coercion (RC) and intimate partner violence (IPV) be addressed within reproductive health services and, in 2018, the Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive ...
Erin Pearson, Jasmine Uysal, Jamie Menzel, Chi-Chi Undie, George Odwe, Wilson Liambila, Jay G. Silverman   +6 more
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