This commentary expresses the urgent need for the inclusion of SDG 5 (gender equality) within global health communities. Ending discrimination against women and girls is essential to achieve SDG 3 (good health and well-being).
Contributing to Sustainable Development Goals 3 (good health and well-being), 5 (gender equality), 8 (decent work and economic growth) and 10 (reduced inequalities), this research identifies the importance of diversification and gender equity in the scientific workforce and in the research populations to produce effective medical research.
This research piece explores factors contributing to women's under-representation in the medical industry, advancing SDG 3 (good health and well-being), SDG 5 (gender equality) and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth).
Developing SDG 5 (gender equality), this correspondence explains Australia's strategy to achieve gender equality in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
Contributing to SDGs 5 (gender equality) and 3 (good health and well-being), this correspondence explores sources of bias in grant selection processes within the USA's medical and scientific industry. Recognition of such factors has the potential to advance career development of women within science and develop future funding of diverse medical research.
Advancing SDG 5 (gender equality), this viewpoint piece explores the gender dynamics that contribute to the under-representation of women, not only in the workplace, but in higher learning institutions as well.
Directly relevant to SDGs 5 (gender equality), 3 (good health and well-being) and 8 (decent work and economic growth), this viewpoint proposes four critical recommendations to achieve women's representation and gender-inclusive practices across every level of science, medicine and global health.
This correspondence explores the importance of women within global health care and the opportunity to produce win-win gender-transformative dividends across the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 3 (good health and well-being), SDG 5 (gender equality) and SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth).
Focussing on SDG 5 (gender equality), this commentary seeks to explain Australia's poor retention rates of women in surgical training. To improve retention rates, the underlying multiple stressors and constituent factors which build up over time must be addressed before a tipping point is reached.
Continuing this special issues focus on SDG 5 (gender equality) within science, medicine and health. This perspective piece suggests that themes of power, systemic inequity, and bias are far more influential, inspiring and effective at driving gender equality compared to business cases and economic themes.
