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Gender and Housing in California: An Analysis of the Gender Impacts of California's Housing Affordability Crisis [PDF]

, 2022
Few are immune to California’s high cost of housing. But the burden of the housing affordability crisis falls heaviest on women—especially Black, Latina, and Native American women, single mothers, and the elderly.
The Gender Equity Policy Institute
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Essential Wages: New Hampshire. An Analysis of the Impact of Raising the Minimum Wage on Tipped Workers in New Hampshire [PDF]

, 2021
The Gender Equity Policy Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing opportunity, fairness, and well-being for all people through research and education that exposes the gender impacts of the policies, processes, and practices of ...
The Gender Equity Policy Institute
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Tools and approaches to operationalize the commitment to equity, gender and human rights: towards leaving no one behind in the Sustainable Development Goals

Global Health Action, 2018
The objective of this article is to present specific resources developed by the World Health Organization on equity, gender and human rights in order to support Member States in operationalizing their commitment to leave no one behind in the health ...
Gerardo Zamora, Theadora Swift Koller, Rebekah Thomas, Mary Manandhar, Eva Lustigova, Adama Diop, Veronica Magar   +6 more
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Sport as a vehicle of change for livelihoods, social participation and marital health for the youth: Findings from a prospective cohort in Bihar, India

EClinicalMedicine, 2020
Background: Adolescent participation in pro-social activities such as sport can promote identity formation, self-efficacy and social support, but its benefits in India remain unassessed.
Nandita Bhan, Kaushik Bhadra, Namratha Rao, Jennifer Yore, Anita Raj   +4 more
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Advancing gender equity in the academy

Science Advances, 2022
Implementation science offers a rigorous set of tools to help mitigate long-standing and worsening gender disparities in academia.
Rinad S. Beidas, Peggy A. Hannon, Aimee S. James, Karen M. Emmons   +3 more
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Advancing gender equity in medicine [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2021
KEY POINTS The medical profession has an equity problem, particularly in leadership. Several Canadian studies have highlighted the extent of gender inequity in leadership in medicine, and the extent to which opportunities in academic medicine are inequitable by gender. Gender (as defined in [Box 1][
Tricco, Andrea C., Bourgeault, Ivy, Moore, Ainsley, Grunfeld, Eva, Peer, Nazia, Straus, Sharon E.   +5 more
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Can community health workers increase modern contraceptive use among young married women? A cross-sectional study in rural Niger

Reproductive Health, 2019
Contexte La République du Niger a le taux le plus élevé de mariages précoces et de fécondité des adolescentes du monde. Les récentes initiatives mondiales pour la santé, telles que Planification Familiale 2020 (FP2020), ont redynamisé les investissements
Mohamad I. Brooks, Nicole E. Johns, Anne K. Quinn, Sabrina C. Boyce, Ibrahima A. Fatouma, Alhassane O. Oumarou, Aliou Sani, Jay G. Silverman   +7 more
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A mediation analysis of the role of girl child marriage in the relationship between proximity to conflict and past-year intimate partner violence in post-conflict Sri Lanka

Conflict and Health, 2022
Background Studies from many contexts indicate that proximity to conflict is associated with increased likelihood of intimate partner violence (IPV), and girl child marriage is associated with both proximity to conflict and increased IPV.
Ruvani W. Fonseka, Lotus McDougal, Anita Raj, Elizabeth Reed, Rebecka Lundgren, Lianne Urada, Jay G. Silverman   +6 more
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Spatial analysis of individual- and village-level sociodemographic characteristics associated with age at marriage among married adolescents in rural Niger

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Niger has the highest prevalence of child marriage in the world. While child marriage in Niger is clearly normative in the sense that it is commonly practiced, the social and contextual factors that contribute to it are still unclear.
Holly B. Shakya, John Weeks, Sneha Challa, Paul J. Fleming, Beniamino Cislaghi, Lotus McDougal, Sabrina C. Boyce, Anita Raj, Jay G. Silverman   +8 more
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Women’s and girls’ experiences of reproductive coercion and opportunities for intervention in family planning clinics in Nairobi, Kenya: a qualitative study

Reproductive Health, 2020
Background Reproductive coercion (RC), which includes contraceptive sabotage and pregnancy coercion, may help explain known associations between intimate partner violence (IPV) and poor reproductive health outcomes, such as unintended pregnancy. In Kenya,
Sabrina C. Boyce, Jasmine Uysal, Stephanie M. DeLong, Nicole Carter, Chi-Chi Undie, Wilson Liambila, Seri Wendoh, Jay G. Silverman   +7 more
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