International Women's Day 2023

Under the theme "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality", the United Nations Observance of International Women's Day 2023 will highlight the need for inclusive and transformative technology and digital education. Photo: UN Trust Fund/Phil

Celebrated annually on 8 March, International Women's Day is a global day to recognize the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The theme for this International Women’s Day 2023 (IWD 2023) is “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality." Elsevier is proud to support IWD 2023 through this thoughtfully curated, freely accessible collection of journal articles and book chapters highlighting the strides being made towards embracing equity and the barriers that stand in the way of achieving gender equality.  

 

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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 113, December 2022

In support of SDG 5 and 11, this Study discusses which transport infrastructure innovations are required to support gender-equitable cycling, especially in developing countries.
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Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 16, December 2022

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16 by assessing changes in stillbirth rates overall and for Black and White women, finding that there was a substantial racial disparity and suggesting that targeted health and social policies are needed to address this issue.
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eClinicalMedicine, Volume 53, November 2022

This Article supports SDG 3 and 5 by demonstrating the need to better understand the roles that male partners play in encouraging or discouraging care-seeking behaviours during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
Fig. 1. Outstanding women scientists across the globe who are making an impact in chemical engineering research and education.
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Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Volume 187, November 2022

This Editorial highlights 17 contributions from outstanding women researchers in chemical engineering supporting SDG 5 (Gender equality) as well as SDG 9 (Industry, innovation and infrastructure).
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Translational Oncology, Volume 25, November 2022

This Study supports SDGs 3, 5 and 10, investigating the impact of chemotherapy on the immune system of older women with breast cancer.
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eClinicalMedicine, Volume 52, October 2022

This Article supports SDG 3 and 5 by highlighting a need for greater involvement of in-country authors on research examining a wider range of gendered COVID-19 impacts, as well as increased representation of diverse topics and publications related to COVID-19 and women's well-being focused on lower income countries.
Fig. 2. The indicator- and domain-wise contributions to disempowerment in agency, by sex and FAARM intervention group.
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World Development, Volume 158, October 2022

This Study supports SDG 5 and 3 by examining the role of improved women's agency on the pathway from the intervention to nutritional impacts.
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The Lancet Public Health, Volume 7, September 2022

This Review supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on the gendered association between unpaid labour and mental health, particularly in relation to the fact that women do more hours of unpaid labour worldwide than men. The Review found that unpaid labour is associated with worse mental health in women than in men.
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eClinicalMedicine, Volume 51, September 2022

This Article supports SDG 5 by examining factors associated with implementation of organisational interventions for advancing women in health-care leadership.
Figure 1. Prevalence of modern contraceptive methods among women of reproductive age (15–49 years) and demand satisfied with modern contraceptive methods by location, 2019
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The Lancet, Volume 400, 23 July 2022

This Article supports SDG 3, 4, and 5 by highlighting that more than 160 million women aged 15-24 years globally have a need for contraception that is not currently met by existing family planning programs, thus hindering or eliminating their education and employment opportunities.
Figure 1. Time-series, cross-sectional, and multivariate logistic regression analyses for vaccination hesitancy and uptake indicators
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The Lancet, Volume 399, 25 June 2022

This Article supports SDG 3 and 5 by exploring the indirect effects of COVID-19 on gender disparities globally, showing intensified levels of pre-existing widespread inequalities for a range of health, social, and economic indicators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 17, June 2022

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on the association between common urogenital infections and cervical neoplasia in a cohort of women.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 10, June 2022

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5, and 10 focusing on the religious and cultural aspects that influence Arab American women's perspectives on health-care in the USA.
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Clinical Imaging, Volume 86, June 2022

This Editorial supports SDGs 3 and 5, exploring career-related challenges of childbearing and highlighting opportunities for radiologists in various career stages, so that they can make informed childbearing decisions.
Fig. 1. Representative graphics of the AAWR mythbuster social media campaign.
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Clinical Imaging, Volume 85, May 2022

This Editorial encourages SDGs 5 and 10 by dispelling the 10 most common misconceptions about the fields of radiology and radiation oncology that deter women from pursuing these specialties.
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The Lancet Oncology, Volume 23, March 2022

This Article support SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on assessing outcomes in premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer receiving ovarian suppression, in particular comparing tamoxifen versus aromatase inhibitors in this population.
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Clinical Imaging, Volume 83, March 2022

This Article advances SDGs 5, 9 and 10 by proposing intentional strategies for closing the gender pay gap in radiology, one of the four medical specialties with the largest gender pay gap. Closing the gender pay gap will demonstrate that radiology values diversity, inclusion, families, and patient outcomes.
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The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 3, February 2022

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on the association between testosterone concentrations and risk of major adverse cardiac events in older women.
Figure 4. A systems biology view of the aged breast microenvironment
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The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 3, January 2022

This Review supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on screening, detection, and treatment of oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancers in older women, particularly in relation to recent moves to de-escalate some interventions for this population.
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The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 3, January 2022

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on blood pressure and hypertension treatment and their association with cognitive impairment and dementia in older women.
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EClinicalMedicine, Volume 39, September 2021

This Research Paper supports SDG 5 by providing an evidence base on organisational interventions for advancing women in leadership across diverse settings, with lessons for the health-care sector.
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Digital Geography and Society, Volume 2, January 2021

This Article supports SDG 5 in providing insights into the feminist geographies in the digital space of online gaming.
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Clinical Imaging, Volume 94, February 2023, Pages 56-61

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5 and 10, summarizing a discussion on workplace flexibility held by the AAWR at the RSNA 2021 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, and highlighting the positive impact various aspects of flexible work arrangements have on women.
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Clinical Imaging, Volume 95, March 2023, Pages 62-64

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5 and 9 by outlining how, in the current legal landscape, to reduce the collection and documentation of reproductive health information in nuclear medicine in light of the SCOTUS decision on Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned a 49-year-old federal recognition of abortion rights.
Fig. 1. Cycling infrastructure typologies within the study context. Source: Own elaboration.
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Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 106, January 2023, 103502

This Study supports SDG 5 and SDG 11 by discussing innovations in micro-mobility and their unequal impacts by gender.
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eClinicalMedicine, Volume 56, February 2023, 101798

This Review supports SDG 5 by describing a new framework and capacity development approach, the Public Leadership for Gender Equality (PL4GE), that promotes six key leadership practices for gender transformative change in public health.
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The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 4, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages e34-e42

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on assessing cardiovascular mortality risk in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, compared with normal blood pressure during pregnancy.
Figure 1. Maternal physiological responses to thermal heat stress
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The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, Issue 12, December 2022, Pages e968-e976

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5, and 13, focusing on the mechanisms for adverse outcomes caused by environmental heat stress in pregnant subsistence farmers.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 17, January 2023, 100408

This viewpoint supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16, focusing on the drivers of Black maternal mortality and advocating the collection of disaggregated data to support improvements in Black maternal health.
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Clinical Breast Cancer, Volume 23, Issue 2, February 2023, Pages 181-188

This Study supports SDGs 3, 5 and 10 by exploring the national impact of limited English proficiency (LEP) in breast cancer screening. Previously unknown, the results showed that LEP women, particularly Spanish speakers, are associated with a lower probability of having a screening mammogram.
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Clinical Breast Cancer, Volume 23, Issue 2, February 2023, Pages 211-218

This Study supports SDGs 3, 5 and 10 by highlighting the significant variability in insurance coverage of Prophylactic Mastectomy (PM) between companies which can lead to further inequalities in access to this breast cancer risk reducing procedure. Physicians and patients alike should advocate for fair and equal access to PM for certain clinical indications.
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Journal of Responsible Technology, Volume 12, December 2022, 100048

An investigation, linking particularly well to SDGs 10 and 5 focusing on equality, which shows how researchers can actively engage with equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in their work, and how EDI considerations must remain an ongoing effort. The authors, working in the field of responsible research and innovation (RRI), intentionally employed EDI in their project recruitment, and reflect here on the adjustments they made as a result. The recruitment of persons with disabilities led to some particularly interesting and new insights in this study looking at trustworthiness in the design of autonomous systems with evolving functionality.
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Health Care Today in the United States, 2023, Pages 141-170

This chapter advances goals 3 and 5 by covering the unique health issues and vulnerabilities of women.
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Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (Second Edition), Elsevier, 2022, Pages 511-519, ISBN: 9780128220412

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 5 and 11 by discussing the gender disparity concerning publication and impact of papers focussed on aquatic resources and fisheries.
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Health Care Today in the United States, 2023, Pages 141-170

This chapter advances goals 3 and 5 by covering the unique health issues and vulnerabilities of women.
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Women's Health in Medical Clinics of North America Volume 7, Issue 2, p. 385-395, March 2023

This content advances goals 5 and 10 by covering the risk factors, consquences, treatments, and optimal support and resources for victims of intimate partner violence.
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Hand Clinics, Volume 39, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 65-72

This chapter advances Goals 5 and 10 by addressing ways we can support the needs of female hand surgeons.
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Sex and Gender Bias in Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Biomedicine and Healthcare Applications, Volume , 1 January 2022

This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting sex and gender biases in Big Data for biomedicine and healthcare.
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Encyclopedia of Mycology, Volume , 1 June 2021

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 3 and 5 by providing an overview of common fungal infections of the mammary gland, which have consequences for mothers and babies.
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Healthcare Strategies and Planning for Social Inclusion and Development, 2022, Pages 159-201

This chapters advances goals 5, 8, and 9 by covering the largely unpaid workload of women, especially rural women, which increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Volume 31, January 2022

This article advances goals 4, 5, and 10 by examining disparities in minority participation in surgical oncology clinical trials.
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Thoracic surgery clinics, Volume 32, 1 February 2022

This article advances SDG goals 3, 5 and 10 by examining disparities in lung cancer treatment and survival rate by race, gender, sexual identitity, and disability status with the goal of understanding the current situation to improve future outcomes.
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Sex and Gender Bias in Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Biomedicine and Healthcare Applications, Volume, 1 January 2022

This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting sex and gender inequality in precision medicine and the socioeconomic determinants of health.
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Oncogenic Viruses Volume 1: Fundamentals of Oncoviruses, Volume , 1 January 2022

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health as well as Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by bringing to light research on HPV and breast cancer in women.
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Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, Volume 43, February 2023

This review article advances goals 3, 5, and 10 by addressing inequity in care among pregnant women with asthma in underserved communities and examining potential interventions that may help improve health outcomes and standard of care.
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Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America, Volume 32, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 221-232

This chapter advances Goals 5 and 10 by discussing the role physicians can play in improving clinical trial enrollment and retention among underrepresented groups.
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Hand Clinics, Volume 39, February 2023

This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting diversity, equity and inclusion for women in the world of hand surgery.