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The authors focus on evaluating green manufacturing strategies in the wire and cable industry using a modified Z-DEMATEL approach. It discusses the key criteria, their interrelationships, and the implications for decision-makers in promoting sustainable practices within the industry.

International Women's Day is an annual celebration on March 8th. This year's theme is “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment", which emphasizes the imperative for action to foster equal rights, power, and opportunities for all, paving the way for a feminist future that leaves no one behind. At the core of this vision is the empowerment of the next generation—specifically, youth, with a focus on young women and adolescent girls—who are poised to serve as catalysts for sustainable change. To raise awareness for this important topic, Elsevier presents a curated list of publicly available journal articles and book chapters to help advance #SDG3, #SDG5 and #SDG10 research. 

Black women face significant disparities in IVF outcomes due to barriers such as discrimination, lack of knowledge, cultural insensitivity, and high costs, highlighting the need for culturally competent care and better education to improve access and outcomes.

"Studies show that solutions developed by men are often best suited for men; while those developed by female inventors are more inclusively designed…..we will draw from interviews with women surgeon innovators, map their journeys as pioneers in surgical innovation, navigate through the obstacles they encountered, and the recount invaluable lessons they learned along the way."
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Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, Volume 54, 1 March 2025

The journey to parenthood is often delayed or prolonged for physicians, which disproportionately negatively impact women physicians. A better understanding of the resources and realities to achieve parenthood allows for more timely family planning while pursuing career advancements in radiology, particularly for medical students and our radiology trainees and early-career colleagues.
The article explores the availability and accessibility of Menstrual Friendly Public Toilets (MFPTs) in urban spaces across six diverse cities globally.
Investing in midwifery education is an investment in health and economic development, as midwives can provide about 90% of essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and adolescent health needs
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The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 7, March 2025

Editorial highlighting the 2 papers above, discussing challenges in the field of women's health, and recommendations to address these.
The AI-ECG model treats sex as a continuum, rather than a dichotomy (the current paradigm). This (and a derived biomarker) allows them to show that in those at low cardiovascular (CV) risk, female individuals (but not male individuals) with a higher biomarker score are at increased risk of CV death. The method can help mitigate exisiting inequities in CV healthcare.
This retrospective cohort study linked primary care prenatal data and intrapartum data from women with singleton pregnancies. With the linked data, the researchers explored the association between the timing of Gestational diabetes screening and macrosomia, Large-for-gestational age, shoulder dystocia and caesarean section.

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