International Women&#039;s Day 2025

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Interventional Cardiology Clinics: The Clinical Approach to Angina in Women

Elsevier, Interventional Cardiology Clinics, Volume 14, January 2025

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 5: Gender Equality by demonstrating the difference by sex in age of presentation with myocardial infarction. It also examines differences in risk factors and in accuracy of prognostic tests between men and women, which had not previouslty been well-described.

SDG:

Global

Nursing Clinics of North America – Obesity Management in Women

Elsevier, Nursing Clinics of North America, Volume 59, December 2024

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health by providing state-of-the-art updates on treating and managing women with obesity.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Nursing Clinics of North America – Comprehensive Care in the Fourth Trimester: A Guide for Nurses

Elsevier, Nursing Clinics of North America, Volume 59, December 2024

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health by sharing treatment and management strategies for post-partum women.

SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Advances in Family Practice: Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Screening in Primary Care

Elsevier, Advances in Family Practice Nursing, Volume 6, May 2024

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health by sharing current breast cancer screening strategies for nurse practitioners.

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Global

Clinics in Sports Medicine – Gender Equity Efforts in Sports Medicine

Elsevier, Clinics in Sports Medicine, Volume 43, April 2024

This content aligns with Goal 5: Gender Equality by discussing gender disparities in sports medicine.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Global

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America – Gynecologic Care for Sexual and Gender Minority Patients

Elsevier, Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, Volume 51, March 2024

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health as well as Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by bringing to light strategies for gynecologists to provide SGM people with equitable and inclusive full spectrum reproductive health care.

SDG:

North America, Global

Body Image and the Asian Experience -- Chapter 10: LGBTQ+ Asian body image: U.S. and globally

Elsevier, Body Image and the Asian Experience: Asians, Asian Americans, and Asian Diasporas Across the Globe, Volume , 1 January 2024

This content aligns with Goal 5: Gender equality in LGBTQ+ Asian communities.

SDG:

Global, North America

Body Image and the Asian Experience – Chapter 5: Asian female body image research in the United States and Canada, Part I

Elsevier, Body Image and the Asian Experience: Asians, Asian Americans, and Asian Diasporas Across the Globe, Volume , 1 January 2024

This content aligns with Goal 5: reviewing the Asian female body image resaerch in US and Canada.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Asia, North America, Global

Health and Climate Change – Chapter 13: Climate change and its impact on women in South Asia: Evidence from a gender lens

Elsevier, Health and Climate Change: Unraveling the Connections, Volume , 1 January 2024

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 5: Gender Equity by examining the particular impact of climate change on women in South Asia.

SDG:

Asia, Oceania, Pacific

The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 1 – Chapter 26: Gender diversity

Elsevier, The Sustainability Handbook, Volume 1: The Body of Knowledge around Substantial Sustainability Innovation, Volume , 1 January 2024

This content aligns with Goals 5, 10, and 8 by exploring the impact of unequal practice, paying particular attention to the workplace in the areas of discrimination, effective participation, and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels and access to resources: economic, land, and natural resource ownership.

SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Global

Resilient Health – Chapter 56: Unlocking potential: Women's leadership and innovation for health

Elsevier, Resilient Health: Leveraging Technology and Social Innovations to Transform Healthcare for COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond, Volume , 1 January 2024

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health, by exploring the potential of women in health leadership and the current barriers to entry.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Global

Homelessness to Hope-- Chapter 11: Contextualizing the drivers of homelessness among women in Kolkata megacity: An exploratory study

Elsevier, Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Global Perspectives, Volume , 1 January 2024

This content aligns with Goals 1 and 5 by using qualitative approaches to explore the pathways of women's homelessness in the Kolkata megacity; identifying environmental, structural, and interpersonal factors associated with women's homelessness; and offering policy and practice recommendations for addressing this issue.

SDG:

Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 5: Gender equality

Asia

Homelessness to Hope -- Chapter 13: Surviving the streets: An unequal battle for homeless women

Elsevier, Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Global Perspectives, Volume , 1 January 2024

This content aligns with Goals 1 and 5 by assessing endemic levels of gender inequality and exclusion of homeless women and survival challenges for them in context of pertinent indicators like accessing basic services, occupational segregation, and gender-based violence.

SDG:

Goal 1: No poverty; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Manson's Tropical Diseases - Chapter 83: Obstetrics in the Tropics

Elsevier, Manson's Tropical Diseases, Fourth Edition, Volume , 1 January 2023

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health by summarizing the current obstetric care in place, or lack thereof, in tropical regions. It recommends actions to create and improve quality, preventitive care where it is needed most and ultimately reduce maternal mortality rates in these regions.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Africa, Asia, Oceania, Pacific, South America

The parenthood journey in radiology: Challenges and opportunities

Elsevier, 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.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Women in surgical innovation: A guide to breaking down barriers and developing solutions from bench to bedside (Part I)

Elsevier, American Journal of Surgery, Volume 241, March 2025

"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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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Process intensification for circular economy

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 208, February 2025

The rise of complexity of secondary raw materials makes it essential to focus on the most targeted process driving forces in order to recover valuables from these resources. In this way the application of processing engineering technologies that follow the principles of process intensification are key in circular economy concepts.

SDG:

Global

Stepping up: From lab scale to industrial processes

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 208, February 2025

"Celebrating Women in Process Intensification. This special issue highlights and celebrates the diversity of career pathways of women in process intensification. This 1-page graphical abstract gives you an overview of key research highlights."

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Diversity and inclusion, Global

Assessing and improving women representation in radiology leadership positions

Elsevier, Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, Volume 54, 1 January 2025

This article examines the barriers hindering women's advancement in radiology and proposes actionable solutions to cultivate a more equitable environment.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment, North America

Innovating for sustainability: A perspective on the spinning mesh disc reactor's development path

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 207, January 2025

Celebrating Women in Process Intensification. This special issue highlights and celebrates the diversity of career pathways of women in process intensification. This 1-page graphical abstract gives you an overview of key research highlights.

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Intensified liquid-liquid extractions by continuous flows in small channels

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 206, December 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Enhancing gender-responsive resilience: The critical role of women in disaster risk reduction in Oman

Elsevier, Progress in Disaster Science, Volume 24, December 2024

The article emphasizes the essential role of women in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and highlights existing gender disparities in current strategies, advocating for inclusive policies that harness women's knowledge and leadership. By analyzing Oman's experiences with natural disasters and COVID-19, the study demonstrates that integrating gender perspectives in DRR leads to more effective outcomes and strengthens community resilience, supporting the goals of Sustainable Development Goal 5 (Gender Equality).

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Recent progresses in intensified heat exchanger reactors with millimetric zigzag channels

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Process intensification technologies to enhance agricultural sustainability and safety

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Interdisciplinary approaches in process intensification: Building the next generation of engineers

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Overview of chemical looping technologies for process intensification: A perspective

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

"Celebrating Women in Process Intensification. This special issue highlights and celebrates the diversity of career pathways of women in process intensification. This perspective article explores individuals research field. This 1-page graphical abstract gives you an overview of key research highlights."

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Chemical explorations: Adventures of learning, teaching and research in the jungle and Caribbean

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Science; Technology; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Valorization of glycerol to mono- and di-glycerides: Feedstocks, intensified reactors, challenges and perspectives

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Intensified processes for CO<inf>2</inf> capture and valorization by catalytic conversion

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Implementing process intensification principles for food processing by emerging technologies

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Processing technologies of oil and gas based on molecular refining: Separation and conversion

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Spinning disc reactor: Status, challenges and future perspectives for advancement

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Coal-based solar thermal fuels: A novel perspective on clean utilization of coal tar

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Diversity and inclusion; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Superhero in a skirt: Psychological resilience of Ukrainian refugee women in Poland. A thematic analysis

Elsevier, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 24, 1 October 2024

This study delves into the diverse experiences of Ukrainian refugee women in Poland amid the ongoing Russian war, employing a community-based participatory action research approach in collaboration with a Polish foundation aiding Ukrainian war refugees.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Europe

Process intensification in metal recovery from solid waste: Challenges, opportunities and recent advances

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 204, October 2024

SDG:

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Process intensification of multiphase flow and reaction system: Perspectives

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 204, October 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

ReaxFF molecular dynamics for pollution degradation and resourcization in the supercritical water system

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 204, October 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

From blooms to breakthroughs: The ‘flowery’ journey into process intensification, entrepreneurship and academia

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 204, October 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education

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The role of sexual communication in the relationship between emotion regulation and sexual functioning in women: The impact of age and relationship status

Elsevier, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 24, 1 July 2024

This study, which involved 1,344 sexually active cisgender women (aged 18–57), suggests that sexual communication plays a crucial role in the development of a positive sexual experience, both in single women and those in stable relationships. According to the results obtained, if there is a basic inability to regulate one's emotions, maturity and experience do not improve this association.

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Role of sexuality in women with chronic pain: Results from an Italian cross-sectional study on chronic headache, fibromyalgia, and vulvodynia

Elsevier, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 24, 1 April 2024

This study shows that in all groups of women with chronic pain, sexuality is a damaged area and there is a higher presence of genito-pelvic pain than in the healthy control group.

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Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 4: Quality education

Promoting hands-on science learning globally with low-cost lab kits through Women Supporting Women in the Sciences

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 27, 15 March 2024

"Women Supporting Women in the Sciences (WS2)—ws2global.org—is an international initiative unifying and supporting graduate- and professional-level women and allies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), while providing outreach to elementary- and secondary-level students. WS2 has been involved in the development of professional development workshops intended to empower university women and promote STEM careers. In their most recent venture, WS2 distributed low-cost physics and materials science lab kits that were designed virtually by international teams. These kits are relevant to elementary and secondary school students across the world, with initial focus on local schools in eastern Africa. In this Backstory, part of the WS2 leadership team (Dr. Joyce Elisadiki, Dr. Cecilia Rolence China, and Dr. Jill Wenderott) discusses how the Lab Kit Initiative came together and highlights outcomes and lessons learned from this project. "

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Science; Education, Africa

Assessing and improving women representation in radiology leadership positions

Elsevier, Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, Volume 54, 1 January 2025

This article examines the barriers hindering women's advancement in radiology and proposes actionable solutions to cultivate a more equitable environment.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment, North America

The parenthood journey in radiology: Challenges and opportunities

Elsevier, Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, Volume 54, 1 March 2025

SDG:

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Enhancing gender-responsive resilience: The critical role of women in disaster risk reduction in Oman

Elsevier, Progress in Disaster Science, Volume 24, December 2024

SDG:

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Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 4: Quality education

Promoting hands-on science learning globally with low-cost lab kits through Women Supporting Women in the Sciences

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 27, 15 March 2024

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Science; Education, Africa

Role of sexuality in women with chronic pain: Results from an Italian cross-sectional study on chronic headache, fibromyalgia, and vulvodynia

Elsevier, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 24, 1 April 2024

This study shows that in all groups of women with chronic pain, sexuality is a damaged area and there is a higher presence of genito-pelvic pain than in the healthy control group.

SDG:

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The role of sexual communication in the relationship between emotion regulation and sexual functioning in women: The impact of age and relationship status

Elsevier, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 24, 1 July 2024

SDG:

Tags:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education

From blooms to breakthroughs: The ‘flowery’ journey into process intensification, entrepreneurship and academia

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 204, October 2024

SDG:

Tags:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education

ReaxFF molecular dynamics for pollution degradation and resourcization in the supercritical water system

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 204, October 2024

SDG:

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Process intensification of multiphase flow and reaction system: Perspectives

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 204, October 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Process intensification in metal recovery from solid waste: Challenges, opportunities and recent advances

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 204, October 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Coal-based solar thermal fuels: A novel perspective on clean utilization of coal tar

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Processing technologies of oil and gas based on molecular refining: Separation and conversion

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Spinning disc reactor: Status, challenges and future perspectives for advancement

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Implementing process intensification principles for food processing by emerging technologies

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Valorization of glycerol to mono- and di-glycerides: Feedstocks, intensified reactors, challenges and perspectives

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Intensified processes for CO<inf>2</inf> capture and valorization by catalytic conversion

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Chemical explorations: Adventures of learning, teaching and research in the jungle and Caribbean

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Science; Technology; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Overview of chemical looping technologies for process intensification: A perspective

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Interdisciplinary approaches in process intensification: Building the next generation of engineers

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Process intensification technologies to enhance agricultural sustainability and safety

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Recent progresses in intensified heat exchanger reactors with millimetric zigzag channels

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 205, November 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Intensified liquid-liquid extractions by continuous flows in small channels

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 206, December 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Innovating for sustainability: A perspective on the spinning mesh disc reactor's development path

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 207, January 2025

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

Process intensification for circular economy

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 208, February 2025

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Stepping up: From lab scale to industrial processes

Elsevier, Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification, Volume 208, February 2025

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion, Global

Women in surgical innovation: A guide to breaking down barriers and developing solutions from bench to bedside (Part I)

Elsevier, American Journal of Surgery, Volume 241, March 2025

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Superhero in a skirt: Psychological resilience of Ukrainian refugee women in Poland. A thematic analysis

Elsevier, International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 24, 1 October 2024

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Europe

Under-recognized cardiovascular risk enhancers in women: A call to rethink clinical assessment on risk stratification

Elsevier, American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Volume 21, March 2025

This study aimed to explore the relationship between cardiovascular risk enhancers (CVRE) and arterial stiffness (AS) in women with low traditional cardiovacular risk (CVR).

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Health and wellbeing; gender medicine, South America

Investing in midwifery education strengthens the health of women and children and ensures a healthier society

Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025

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

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Human rights; Health and wellbeing, Global

Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities

Elsevier, Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 109, 1 March 2025

Based on interviews with Israeli mothers during COVID, this article asks: What practices do mothers use to mark and erase their children's disabilities? What practices are marked as good mothering? How do these processes of marking and erasing negotiate classed ideals of normativity for children and mothers? The findings indicated that low-income mothers mark disability to acquire professional support for children's disabilities, claiming this as their ‘proper’ mothering role, whereas middle-class mothers erase disability through intensive mothering, marking it as theirs.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Middle East

The importance of patient-centered contraceptive care: Linking provider contraceptive coercion to patient psychological distress and mental well-being

Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025

The authors suggest that being denied a desired contraceptive method (downward coercion) may have a more profound negative impact on patients' self-efficacy, self-esteem, and reproductive autonomy. Patient autonomy needs to be safeguarded

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Human rights; Health and wellbeing, North America

The impact of infertility on the mental health of women undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment

Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025

The article explores the impact of infertility on the mental health of women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment.The article highlights the need for tailored psychological support and interventions.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and wellbeing; Human rights, Europe

Abortion provision and characteristics of abortion patients in an academic medical center in Washington state before and after Dobbs

Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025

Academic Medical Centers play a key role in providing comprehensive abortion services, from primary care to complex specialty care, and in training future clinicians in abortion provision. The weekly number of abortions at University of Washington remained stable after Dobbs.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Human rights; Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, North America

The relationship between timing of screening for gestational diabetes mellitus and maternal and fetal outcomes: A retrospective cohort study linking primary care electronic and hospital administrative data

Elsevier, Obesity Pillars, Volume 13, March 2025

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.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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gender medicine; Health and wellbeing, Global

Are we leaving women with disabilities in the Global South behind? How the reinforcement of different forms of violence leads to unsustainable development

Elsevier, Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 109, 1 March 2025

This study explores the pervasive and multifaceted violence faced by women with disabilities in Nepal, focusing on the ways in which these experiences are shaped by intersecting social hierarchies, including those based on gender, caste, and socioeconomic status. By calling for more targeted and inclusive strategies that prioritise the perspectives and needs of disabled women, this researh argues that the global commitment to “leave no one behind” will be upheld.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; gender medicine; Health and wellbeing, Asia

Adaptive HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence interventions for young women in Johannesburg, South Africa: a sequential multiple-assignment randomised trial

Elsevier, The Lancet HIV, Volume 12, February 2025

African young women, a key population in HIV that represent a growing share of people living with HIV worldwide, but adherence to HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) reamains low in this population. Differenciated PrEP-adherence support strategies to avoid HIV acquisition are a fundamental to curve new HIV acquisitions in women.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment, Africa

Breastfeeding in metabolic and bariatric patients: a comprehensive guide for surgeons, patients, and the multidisciplinary team

Elsevier, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, Volume , 2025

This article provides Physician-patient discussion points on how metabolic bariatric surgery impacts lactation, the micronutrient and caloric needs for women post-surgery, and data to support this patient population with successful breastfeeding.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; gender medicine, Global

Digital Twin Technology in Resolving Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Improving Metabolic Health: A Comprehensive Case Study

Elsevier, AACE Clinical Case Reports, Volume 11, 1 January 2025

This case shows the effective use of AI technology for managing polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), significantly improving weight, body mass index, insulin, blood pressure, and lipid profile in women.

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gender medicine; Artificial Intelligence; health technology; Health and wellbeing, Global

Predicting Fear of Breast Cancer Recurrence in women five years after diagnosis using Machine Learning and healthcare reimbursement data from the French nationwide VICAN survey

Elsevier, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 193, January 2025

A major concern for cancer survivors after treatment is the Fear of Cancer Recurrence (FCR), which is the fear that cancer will reappear or progress. This fear can be exacerbated by medical uncertainty about the future, leading to harmful obsession and having a negative impact on quality of life. This study aims to develop a predictive Machine Learning (ML) model using healthcare reimbursement data to better predict FCR and understand the factors influencing FCR in women with breast cancer five years after their diagnosis.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Artificial Intelligence; gender medicine; Health and wellbeing, Europe

Sex disparity in liver allocation within Eurotransplant

Elsevier, American Journal of Transplantation, Volume 25, January 2025

This study reports on sex disparity in Eurotransplant, the largest organ exchange organization in Europe. Learn why relatively fewer females undergo transplantation, and why relatively more females die within 90 days of listing.

SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; gender medicine; Health and wellbeing, Europe

I had to tell to survive“- a cross-sectional study on exposure to intimate partner violence in pregnant women and the importance of screening

Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 42, December 2024

64% of women exposed to partner violence during pregnancy had been asked about it in healthcare settings, 51% disclosed their experiences, primarily to midwives - highlighting the important of screening/asking

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Human rights; Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Europe

Effective medical treatment of obesity among immigrant women in primary care

Elsevier, Obesity Pillars, Volume 12, December 2024

This is the first study to report obesity treatment among immigrants in the US. The study evaluated the effectiveness of obesity treatment among immigrant women in primary care at safety-net academic health centers in the US.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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gender medicine; Health and wellbeing, Global

Sex-disaggregated patterns in tuberculosis treatment coverage and outcomes among a nationally representative sample of deaths in India: 2019–2022

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 31, December 2024

These data help in understanding towards gender-responsive strategies which is available from those who are alive.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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gender medicine; Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and wellbeing, Asia

Previse preterm birth in early pregnancy through vaginal microbiome signatures using metagenomics and dipstick assays

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 27, 15 November 2024

A dipstick assay was developed which quickly identifies pre-term birth-associated vaginal microbiota

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Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Global prevalence of borderline personality disorder and self-reported symptoms of adults in prison: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Elsevier, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 97, 1 November 2024

The prevalence of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adults who have in been in prison is higher compared to the general population. Women have higher prevalence rates of BPD in prison compared to men. This article examines the nature of BPD in prisons and to help to inform prison-staff education, funding and intervention options, and adequate care for an already at-risk population.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Learning from the Indian National Family Health Survey to assess population based oral, cervix and breast cancer screening in low-and-middle income countries

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 30, November 2024

There is dire need of comprehensive data on population-level cancer screening is lacking in LMICs, to effectively manage the growing burden of cancer among women.

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Health and wellbeing; gender medicine, Asia

Advances in using non-invasive prenatal testing to study genomics related to maternity

Elsevier, Cell Genomics, Volume 4, 9 October 2024

The authors in this voices piece contributed to genetic research on non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) on an Asian cohort, as both pregnant women and non-European populations are under-represented in genomics datasets.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Human milk variation is shaped by maternal genetics and impacts the infant gut microbiome

Elsevier, Cell Genomics, Volume 4, 9 October 2024

A study of maternal genetics, milk composition and the infant faecal microbiome. The results show how an improved understanding of the genetics and genomics of human milk connects lactation biology with maternal and infant health.

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Health and wellbeing, North America

Prior knowledge and experience with self-managed abortion among people seeking abortion care in US Midwestern states

Elsevier, Contraception, Volume 138, October 2024

What methods people use and/or have heard of others using for self-managed abortion (SMA) prior to coming to a health facility for abortion care. 4.2% respondends had attempted SMA, and 25% had heard of others attempting SMA. The most frequently attempted methods for self-management were taking herbs and/or vitamins (31% each) or hitting oneself/being hit (22.5%).

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment; Human rights, North America

HDL-C criterion of the metabolic syndrome and future diabetes and atherosclerosis in midlife women: The SWAN Study

Elsevier, American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Volume 19, September 2024

This special issue focuses on Women's cardiovascular health, and this study looks at midlife women who have metabolic syndrome.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; gender medicine, North America

Causal fairness assessment of treatment allocation with electronic health records

Elsevier, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Volume 155, July 2024

The study proposes a causal fairness algorithm to assess fairness in clinical decision-making. Our algorithm accounts for the heterogeneity of patient populations and identifies potential unfairness in treatment allocation by conditioning on patients who have the same likelihood to benefit from the treatment.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and wellbeing, North America

Three cases of thyroid cancer in transgender female veterans receiving gender-affirming estrogen treatment

Elsevier, Endocrine and Metabolic Science, Volume 15, 30 June 2024

This article helps to lay the groundwork for understanding the hormonal impacts of gender affirming care and its effect upon esteogenic factors of thyroid cancer and can help to expidite cancer prevention and ensure that patients have sufficient background knoweldge of risks associated with lifelong treatment cycles

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Gender inequality in workloads explained by operational sex ratio

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 27, 21 June 2024

Monastic celibacy generates low sex ratios that increase female and reduce male workload. We show that a lower sex ratio and a higher prevalence of monasticism are associated with higher women's workloads and reduced men's workloads in the non-celibate population. As the operational sex ratio increases, gender inequality diminishes. This study offers valuable insights into the origins of gender disparities by examining the role of sex ratio on the sexual division of labor.

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Rural development, Asia

Development and external validation of Indian population-specific Garbhini-GA2 model for estimating gestational age in second and third trimesters

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 25, June 2024

This model helps in estimating gestational age in the late trimesters as most women in LMICs seek care only in third trimester and it is difficult estimate the GA by LMP recall.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; gender medicine, Asia

Characteristics associated with criminal responsibility assessment outcomes among women in Central Canada

Elsevier, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 94, 1 May 2024

The number of women involved with forensic mental health systems internationally is rising. Limited research has explored the characteristics of those assessed for criminal responsibility. This article investigates the demographic, psychiatric, and criminological characteristics of women recommended as eligible or ineligible for the defence of Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) on account of mental disorder following a criminal responsibility assessment in Central Canada.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; gender medicine, Global

Correlation Between Impaired Sensitivity to Thyroid Hormones and Serum Uric Acid in Female Patients With Obesity and After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

Elsevier, Endocrine Practice, Volume 30, May 2024

Female hyperuricemia is correlated with higher thyroid hormone resistance index scores. Learn about improvements to womens health after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy, particularly in resistance to thyroid hormones.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Association between television viewing frequency and anthropometric indices among Peruvian women: Evidence from the 2019 demographic health survey

Elsevier, Obesity Medicine, Volume 47, May 2024

This study explored whether peruvian women watching a high level of TV had a higher prevalence of obesity and higher values in different obesity indices.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

A review on critical appraisal and pathogenesis of polycystic ovarian syndrome

Elsevier, Endocrine and Metabolic Science, Volume 14, 31 March 2024

This article looks at important pathogenic components of PCOS which is reported to effect more than 10% of women worldwide. Reviews like this give an update on the current understanding of this widespread and complex endocrine related syndrome.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Diversity and inclusion, Global

The multi-faceted nature of age-associated osteoporosis

Elsevier, Bone Reports, Volume 20, March 2024

This article seaks to inform and protect women who are facing age realted Osteoporosis with a thorough understanding of the multifaceted nature of this disease. This thorough and comprehensive review ties together different causal factors and helps to explain the potentials for clinical action to reduce patienct suffering and improve their wellbeing.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Centring the health of women across the HIV research continuum

Elsevier, The Lancet HIV, Volume 11, March 2024

Position paper introducing a framework for an intersectional, equity-informed, data-driven approach to research on HIV and women and highlighting selected issues for women and gender diverse people, including HIV prevention, HIV cure, ageing with HIV, substance use and misuse, violence, pregnancy, and breastfeeding or chestfeeding

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Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

A survey on fairness-aware recommender systems

Elsevier, Information Fusion, Volume 100, December 2023

This article provides a comprehensive survey on fairness-aware recommender systems. As information filtering services, recommender systems have extremely enriched our daily life by providing personalized suggestions and facilitating people in decision-making, which makes them vital and indispensable to human society in the information era. However, as people become more dependent on them, recent studies show that recommender systems potentially own unintentional impacts on society and individuals because of their unfairness (e.g., gender discrimination in job recommendations).

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Nutritional strategies to optimise musculoskeletal health for fall and fracture prevention: Looking beyond calcium, vitamin D and protein

Elsevier, Bone Reports, Volume 19, December 2023

This article investigates the dynamics of nutrients necessary to assist patients who struggle with oseoporatic fractures, which prove to be a major health problem for aging women. The information and approaches contained in this review seek to inform the public about ways that they can help improve their prognosis through safe and effective dietary modifications.

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and wellbeing, Global

Prediction of postpartum prediabetes by machine learning methods in women with gestational diabetes mellitus

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 26, 20 October 2023

This study aims to predict the risk of postpartum prediabetes in women diagnosed with gestational diabetes

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

The relationship between e-health literacy and information technology acceptance, and the willingness to share personal and health information among pregnant women

Elsevier, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 178, October 2023

Setting and updating information-sharing rules and security mechanisms with the participation of people can help reduce concerns and increase public trust. Healthcare policymakers can encourage the use of health IT in the prevention and treatment of diseases by providing relevant education and informing people.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; health information technologies, Asia

Projection of Socio-Linguistic markers in a semantic context and its application to online social networks

Elsevier, Online Social Networks and Media, Volume 37-38, September 2023

PLMP leverages the interdependencies in the semantic network to project markers from the social discourse level (tweets) to the word level, allowing for a richer interpretation of the online sentiment. The authors apply PLMP to analyze online discourse around three major events: #MeToo, #FridaysForFuture, and #Covid19

SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and wellbeing; Technology, Global

A decentralised messaging system robust against the unauthorised forwarding of private content

Elsevier, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 145, August 2023

The article discusses two decentralised approaches to prevent the unauthorised forwarding of private, sex-related images.

SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Social determinants of sex disparities in cancer in Southeast Asia

Elsevier, iScience, Volume 26, 21 July 2023

Sex disparities in cancer exist along the cancer spectrum, ranging from genomic predisposition and behavioral risk factors to access to screening, diagnostics, treatment, and survivorship care. A growing body of research is studying the biological underpinnings of these differences, from cancer risk to tumor biology to treatment response

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Asia

The hormonal physiology of immune components in breast milk and their impact on the infant immune response

Elsevier, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Volume 572, 15 July 2023

This Special Issue focuses on lactation and infant health, and this article in particular investigates immune components of breastmilk and how they impact their newborns immune responses and hold important information that can help improve child health outcomes from a mother biology informed baseline.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and wellbeing, Global

No woman left behind: achieving cervical cancer elimination among women living with HIV

Elsevier, The Lancet HIV, Volume 10, June 2023

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common malignancy in women of reproductive age globally and specially among women living with HIV in low-income and middle -income countries. This Position Paper shows specific challenges and uncertainties on the way to cervical cancer elimination for women living with HIV and highlights the scarcity of evidence for the effect of interventions in this population. The piece calls for the expansion of HPV immunization programmes for women

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; gender medicine; Health and wellbeing, Global

Women with disabilities, and communities of care in wartime Ukraine: Conversations with disability and women's rights activists about feminist and disability solidarities

Elsevier, Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 98, 1 May 2023

This article takes a first-hand perspective to document women's disability justice activism in Ukraine, feminist and disability solidarities across regional and national borders, and the important roles Ukrainian women play in creating and sustaining communities of care. By contributing to the scholarship on disability inclusive disaster response, the gendered nature of care, and intersectional approaches to disability advocacy, it argues that Women with disabilities (WWD) provides pathways for expanding agendas of civic groups to be more inclusive.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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gender medicine; Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and wellbeing, Europe

Refining fine-tuned transformers with hand-crafted features for gender screening on question-answering communities

Elsevier, Information Fusion, Volume 92, April 2023

The article introduces a novel approach called PTM-SFFS that effectively combines pre-trained transformer models (PTMs) with traditional statistical classifiers and linguistic features for the task of gender screening on community question-answering (cQA) platforms.

SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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gender medicine; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Evaluating and mitigating bias in machine learning models for cardiovascular disease prediction

Elsevier, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Volume 138, February 2023

The study aims to investigate whether machine learning-based predictive models for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment show equivalent performance across demographic groups (such as race and gender) and if bias mitigation methods can reduce any bias present in the models. This is important as systematic bias may be introduced when collecting and preprocessing health data, which could affect the performance of the models on certain demographic sub-cohorts.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Technology; Data & Analytics, North America

The effects of intimate partner violence on women's risk of HIV acquisition and engagement in the HIV treatment and care cascade: a pooled analysis of nationally representative surveys in sub-Saharan Africa

Elsevier, The Lancet HIV, Volume 10, February 2023

Study built over two decades of research on intimate parther violence and HIV. Sub-Saharan Africa has among the highest prevalence of intimate parthner violence (IPV) and HIV worldwide. The results of this very pooled analysis show that pwomen who had experienced physical or sexual IPV in the past year were 3·22 times as likely to acquire a recent HIV infection and women living with HIV who experienced physical or sexual IPV in the past year were 9% less likely to be virally suppressed

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; gender medicine; Health and wellbeing, Africa

Lactation from the inside out: Maternal homeorhetic gastrointestinal adaptations regulating energy and nutrient flow into milk production

Elsevier, Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, Volume 559, 1 January 2023

Lactation invokes homeorhetic processes to ramp up and supply milk synthesis components to fulfil nutritional, immunological and microbiological requirements of developing offspring, overseen by complex neuroendocrine networks. The maternal gut meets these intense metabolic demands, supported by hyperphagia and rapid adjustments to process larger food quantities. This research seeks to help mothers and clinicians better understand the hormonal components of their diet, gastrointestinal and other biological drives toward essential nutrient flow to their infants via lacatation.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

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Health and wellbeing; gender medicine, Global

Development and change in mathematics education for undergraduate women: An examination of the early years of Barnard College

Elsevier, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Volume 78, June 2025

This article explores how the mathematics education and educators at the New York, USA women’s college, Barnard College, during its early years approached the issue of equal study on separate campuses as well as how some of the female students of Barnard with a mathematics focus in their studies utilized their knowledge of this male-dominated field to pursue careers following their graduation.

SDG:

Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

North America

Women's participation in the research development of a country

Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Research Open, Volume 8, June 2025

Women's participation in science has been growing throughout history. However, a gender gap in their equity in participation requires pragmatic strategies and public policies that motivate women's opportunities in research. This study aims to analyse the scientific contribution of female Ecuadorian researchers through a diagnosis of the metrics and co-author's criteria for scientific publications to establish strategies oriented toward women's inclusion in Ecuador's research development.

SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, South America

Navigating the emotional stickiness of belonging through scaling: A black American woman teacher's experiences in the context of teaching English abroad in Korea

Elsevier, Linguistics and Education, Volume 86, April 2025

Questions about belonging are particularly poignant to migrant English language teaching (ELT) professionals. However, few studies have explored migrant ELT professionals’ emotional belonging, and even fewer studies have studied how Black women native English teachers navigate their emotional belonging as they teach English abroad, in countries like Korea.

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Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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A high-throughput RNA sequency of peripheral blood mononuclear cells reveals on inflammatory state in women with PCOS

Elsevier, Archives of Medical Research, Volume 56, April 2025

This study aims to identify the transcriptome expression profiles of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and controls, while investigating noninvasive diagnostic biomarkers and potential treatment targets to enhance women's fertility.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

The role of artificial intelligence in gynecologic and obstetric emergencies

Elsevier, European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Volume 306, March 2025

Artificial intelligence can be useful in gynecologic and obstetric emergencies.

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and wellbeing; Human rights, North America

Impact of a national HPV vaccination programme for preadolescent girls on cytology screening performance and CIN2+ incidence: five-year population-based cervical screening results from Slovenia

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 50, March 2025

This study has shown that even with imperfect coverage of HPV vaccination targeting preadolescent girls, substantially lower incidence of CIN2+ is already observed. Thus, vaccinating population through organized and publicly funded programme should be encouraged and efforts to increase vaccination coverage should be given.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Multipurpose trees on farms can improve nutrition in Malawi

Elsevier, One Earth, Volume 8, 21 February 2025

Trees on farms are an important source of micronutrient-rich foods, yet their contributions to people’s diets remain poorly quantified. Using data collected in rural Malawi, this study shows how different uses of on-farm trees for food, income, and fuelwood are positively associated with women’s micronutrient adequacy.

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Africa

Effectiveness of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination against high-grade cervical lesions by age and doses: a population-based cohort study

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 49, February 2025

Findings support the World Health Organization’s recommendation of using a two-dose or one-dose HPV vaccine regimen in girls and young women. As many countries are switching to one-dose regimen to scale up the coverage of HPV vaccination, these findings based on nationwide Swedish registries and real-life programs provided high-quality evidence to support such policy changes and decision-making for HPV vaccination programs globally.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Rejection of the hijab is not a psychiatric diagnosis

Elsevier, The Lancet Psychiatry, Volume 12, February 2025

Letter examines the right for women to make decisions that might be unpopular without having their mental health questioned.

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Middle East

Does women empowerment alone influence contraception utilization in Bangladesh perspective? Findings from the 2017–2018 Demographic Health Survey using a structural equation model analysis

Elsevier, AJOG Global Reports, Volume 5, February 2025

This study implies that greater women empowerment may not always act as a stronger determinant of contraceptive use. Other contributing factors such as age, education and religion should be considered.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Association between HPV vaccination and cervical screening policy changes and cervical cancer incidence and grade-3 cervical intraepithelial neoplasia incidence in England, 2006–2020: a population-based trends analysis

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 49, February 2025

Women offered vaccination at age 12–13 years have around 80% lower rates of Cervical cancer than they would have had in the absence of a national vaccination programme.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Europe

Impact of gestational diabetes mellitus in gut and human breast milk microbiome in Colombian women and their infants

Elsevier, Revista Argentina de Microbiologia, Volume 57, 1 January 2025

SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Global

Sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault in UK radiology training: a national survey

Elsevier, Clinical Radiology, Volume 80, January 2025

Sex discrimination and sexual misconduct are endemic issues within the National Health Service (NHS). The extent of the problem amongst radiology registrars across the UK is unknown. This national survey explores the experiences of radiology registrars in relation to sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault during radiology training, in addition to the impact on wellbeing and barriers to reporting behaviours.

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Europe

Sex differences in clinically diagnosed psychiatric disorders over the lifespan: a nationwide register-based study in Sweden

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 47, December 2024

In the context of increasing sex differences in psychiatric disorders over time, it is urgent to reduce the sex differences in psychiatric disorders. The findings that sex differences in psychiatric disorders exist almost across the whole life emphasized the adoption of gendered mental health prevention strategies and consistent risk factor management over the lifecourse. The variation of such differences across age and socioeconomic status suggests that the current knowledge - females predominate in internalizing disorders and males predominate in externalizing disorders - can be improved by incorporating information on age and socioeconomic status.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Human rights, Europe

Evaluation of the gender-neutral academic climate on campus for women faculty in STEM fields

Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Research Open, Volume 7, December 2024

The status of gender equity at universities is often evaluated via statistical data such as the proportions of women faculty members and students. However, given that women are still a minority in decision-making positions while gender parity has been achieved in most countries for students, simply increasing the proportion of women alone is not enough to ensure a truly gender-neutral (gender bias-free) academic climate on campuses, i.e., continuous efforts are required to create an environment that promotes the active participation of women.

SDG:

Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Asia

Menopause and endometriosis

Elsevier, Maturitas, Volume 190, December 2024

Endometriosis may also affect women of post-reproductive age.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment; Human rights, North America

Challenging gender stereotypes: Young women's views on female role models in secondary school science textbooks

Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Research Open, Volume 7, December 2024

International Women's Day highlights both women's achievements and ongoing efforts toward global gender equality. Gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) affect a country's innovation and ability to tackle global challenges. Therefore, recent national education policies have looked for ways to promote gender equality, particularly in the STEM subjects.

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Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Europe

Women as carriers of the ‘weaving legacy’: Shifting labour and changing gender relations in marriage

Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Research Open, Volume 7, December 2024

The study highlights how women bear the responsibility of perpetuating the cultural identity of the weaving community due to gendered norms around endogamous marriage, the dual burden that women bear within family enterprises, and the exit of male weavers in pursuit of more sustainable economic opportunities.

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Asia

Rural women's preferences for cervical cancer screening via HPV self-sampling: a discrete choice experiment study in chidamoyo, Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe

Elsevier, AJOG Global Reports, Volume 4, November 2024

Rural women's preferences for cervical cancer screening via HPV self-sampling: a discrete choice experiment study in chidamoyo, Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Africa

Evidence of Browning and Inflammation Features in Visceral Adipose Tissue of Women with Endometriosis

Elsevier, Archives of Medical Research, Volume 55, November 2024

This is the first study to demonstrate the impact of endometriosis on adipose tissue in women, affecting browning and inflammation pathways in visceral fat.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Menopause and sexual health: The elephant in the room

Elsevier, Maturitas, Volume 189, November 2024

Sexual health and wellbeing are vital components of a woman's life, but older women are often reluctant to discuss sexual issues with healthcare professionals.

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Health and wellbeing; Human rights; Gender equality and women's empowerment, North America

Mepivacaine instillation for pain reduction during intrauterine device placement in nulliparous women: a double-blinded randomized trial

Elsevier, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 231, November 2024

The intrauterine instillation of mepivacaine results significant reduction in pain score during IUD placement.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Global

Time to enhance COVID-19 vaccination in women of reproductive age

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 45, October 2024

Pre-conception vaccination, particularly with mRNA vaccines, is associated with significant reductions in adverse pregnancy outcomes.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Sex and gender bias in chronic coronary syndromes research: analysis of studies used to inform the 2019 European Society of Cardiology guidelines

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 45, October 2024

Analysis of the research used as a basis for clinical guideline development underscores the insufficient consideration of sex and gender in the primary evidence base informing the 2019 ESC guideline recommendations for chronic coronary syndromes. The underrepresentation of women in cardiovascular research and guideline development poses challenges for accurately discerning possible sex- and gender-specific effects and tailoring recommendations to diverse patient needs. Addressing these gaps requires explicitly integrating sex and gender considerations into study designs and guideline creation processes and promoting inclusivity to optimize clinical care provision and improve outcomes for all individuals affected by ischemic heart diseases.

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Tags:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

COVID-19 diagnosis, vaccination during pregnancy, and adverse pregnancy outcomes of 865,654 women in England and Wales: a population-based cohort study

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 45, October 2024

The chief implication of this study for public policy is to support recommendations towards high-priority vaccination against COVID-19 in pregnant women to avoid high risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes from COVID-19 especially in the 3rd trimester.

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Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

COVID-19 vaccination and birth outcomes of 186,990 women vaccinated before pregnancy: an England-wide cohort study

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 45, October 2024

The main public health implication of all the available evidence is that COVID-19 vaccination is to be recommended to all women of reproductive age, especially those intending to become pregnant within a year.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Prenatal cell-free DNA testing of women with pregnancy-associated cancer: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 45, October 2024

The number of women referred to a clinic with pregnancy-associated cancer will increase as NIPT providers will be able to better recognize malignant-suspicious NIPT from foetal aneuploidy screening. Reporting malignancy suspicious-NIPT results may be a step forward in detecting cancers and could enable an earlier diagnosis and start of cancer therapy, especially for haematological malignancies and advanced solid tumours.

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A Narrative Review of Depression and Suicide in Adolescent Females to Guide Assessment and Treatment Recommendations

Elsevier, Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Volume 37, October 2024

The purpose of this paper is to review factors related to suicidal thoughts and actions, assessment of symptoms, and initial suggestions for treatment for medical providers.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Contrast-enhanced mammography versus conventional imaging in women recalled from breast cancer screening (RACER trial): a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled clinical trial

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 44, September 2024

The collective evidence shows that CEM as a work-up tool in women recalled from breast cancer screening is more efficient in terms of resources needed, and it detects more occult lesions than the control group.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Effective heat adaptation must engage with unequal heat risk

Elsevier, One Earth, Volume 7, 16 August 2024

Countries in the tropics, and populations disadvantaged based on gender, ethnicity, and caste, are more vulnerable to extreme heat. This Commentary discusses interventions to help address inequity and deal with extreme heat.

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Oceania

An analysis of oral contraceptive related videos on TikTok

Elsevier, AJOG Global Reports, Volume 4, August 2024

TikTok videos about oral contraceptives are generally unreliable. Healthcare providers should consider the prevalence of poor-quality information about oral contraceptives on social media when counseling and educating patients about reproductive health.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Global

Language learning, gender and education: Understanding the agency and affordances of refugee-background women with emergent literacy

Elsevier, Linguistics and Education, Volume 81, June 2024

Forced migration can bring adults who have previously been denied formal education and print literacy into contact with highly technological and literacy dependent societies that lack the knowledge and expertise to cater to them as simultaneous learners of language and literacy. As educational disadvantages are often conditioned by gender, many of these learners are also women and mothers who may continue to have fewer opportunities to engage in education after settlement due to their gender and life roles.

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Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Global

Research priorities for climate mobility

Elsevier, One Earth, Volume 7, 19 April 2024

The escalating impacts of climate change on the movement and immobility of people, coupled with false but influential narratives of mobility, highlight an urgent need for nuanced and synthetic research around climate mobility. Synthesis of evidence and gaps across the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report highlight a need to clarify the understanding of what conditions make human mobility an effective adaptation option and its nuanced outcomes, including simultaneous losses, damages, and benefits.

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Goal 13: Climate action

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Indicators, Global

Socioeconomic and gender inequalities in mental disorders among adolescents and young adults

Elsevier, Revista de Psiquiatria y Salud Mental, Volume , 2022

The study highlights significant socioeconomic status and gender inequalities in mental health and premature mortality among young people, underscoring the need for early preventive interventions.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Europe

The gender representation of women and men in the occupational areas of STEM and care work in German textbooks

Elsevier, Linguistics and Education, Volume 80, April 2024

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations and care work occupations are highly segregated by gender. School textbooks play an essential socializing role in determining which occupations are perceived as typically male or female. Existing research on the gender representation of STEM and care work occupations in textbooks is limited in scope.

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Management of impacted fetal head at cesarean delivery

Elsevier, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 230, March 2024

This article examined the evidence for the prevention and management of this critical obstetrical emergency and outlined recommendations for best practices and training.

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The prevention of perineal trauma during vaginal birth

Elsevier, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Volume 230, March 2024

Perineal trauma after vaginal birth is common. This artilce presents data on the prevention of perineal trauma by describing the risk factors associated with perineal trauma and interventions that can be implemented to prevent perineal trauma.

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Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

The golden path in the lives of Arab-Bedouin female students: "The profession of teaching for myself and for family support as a lever for academic success"

Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Research, Volume 127, January 2024

The study explores the complexities Arab-Bedouin students face in balancing modern academic life with traditional societal norms, based on interviews with 30 students from education colleges in southern Israel.

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Middle East

Incidence of sexual violence among recently arrived asylum-seeking women in France: a retrospective cohort study

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 34, November 2023

Background: The prevention of sexual violence (SV) occurring shortly after arrival in host countries towards female asylum seekers requires knowledge about its incidence. We aimed to determine the incidence of SV and its associated factors during the past year of living in France among asylum-seeking females who had arrived more than one year earlier but less than two years. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using a life-event survey of asylum-seeking females who had been registered in southern France by the Office for Immigration for more than one year but less than two.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Abuse, Europe

Up-skilling women or de-skilling patriarchy? How TVET can drive wider gender transformation and the decent work agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa

Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 102, October 2023

Despite decades of focus on gender and skills training, the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa remains deeply gendered and rooted in wider structures of patriarchal inequality and exploitation. Engaging with recent theoretical moves toward gender-transformative and gender-just TVET programming, this paper explores how a gradual revisioning of TVET can be mobilised to challenge broader gender inequality and discrimination in precarious settings.

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Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Africa

Evaluating migration as successful adaptation to climate change: Trade-offs in well-being, equity, and sustainability

Elsevier, One Earth, Volume 6, 16 June 2023

The role of migration as one potential adaptation to climate change is increasingly recognized, but little is known about whether migration constitutes successful adaptation, under what conditions, and for whom. Based on a review of emerging migration science, we propose that migration is a successful adaptation to climate change if it increases well-being, reduces inequality, and promotes sustainability.

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Small Island Developing States; Climate Change, Global

Gender and/or Religiosity? – Intersectional approach to the challenges of religious women in STEM fields

Elsevier, International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 96, January 2023

This paper aims to extend the discussion on intersectionality by focusing on the intersection between gender and religiosity while addressing the main challenges which face young religious Jewish women in Israel who have chosen the STEM path.

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Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Middle East

From oral counting to plotting graphs: Advances in girls' math education in the South of Brazil

Elsevier, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Volume 78, June 2025

Throughout the 19th century in southern Brazil, as in the whole country, girls received a poorer mathematical education than boys. Historical records of this education are scarce. The first systematic opportunity for girls to progress beyond basic arithmetic was by pursuing training as elementary school teachers. In the 20th century, several movements converged to reduce inequalities: coeducation became standard in primary schools, secondary education was standardized, and both coeducational and girls’ secondary schools expanded rapidly.

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South America

Associations of adverse childhood and adulthood experiences with depressive and anxiety symptoms among rural left-behind women: A cross-sectional study in China

Elsevier, SSM - Mental Health, Volume 7, June 2025

This article examines the associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adverse adulthood experiences (AAEs) with depressive and anxiety symptoms among rural left-behind women in China.

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Asia

“They do not have the same needs”: Mathematics education for girls and young women in France (19th-early 20th century)

Elsevier, Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Volume 78, June 2025

This article examines the main places and characteristics of mathematics education for girls and young women in primary and secondary schools during the 19th and early 20th century. It looks at, in particular, the mathematical content that pupils learned in these schools and the aims of the teaching they received. It shows how female mathematics teaching differed from its male counterpart by responding to various gender stereotypes referring to the ‘nature’ and social role of women. The article also presents to what extent the girls’ mathematics programs were progressively aligned with those of boys, until they became almost identical from the 1920s onwards.

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Europe

Being a migrant woman during disasters: A phenomenological study to unveil experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Milan, Italy

Elsevier, SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, Volume 7, June 2025

The article explores the experiences of 19 cisgender migrant women (MW) living in Milan, Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Europe

Effectiveness of Protein-enriched oral nutritional supplements on muscle function in middle-aged and elderly women: A randomized controlled trial

Elsevier, Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, Volume 29, May 2025

The protein-enriched oral nutritional supplement helped maintain lean body mass and prevent fat gain in middle-aged and elderly women. This suggests its potential role in preventing frailty and musculoskeletal disorders associated with female aging.

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Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Food insecurity, intimate partner violence, and barriers to sexual and reproductive health care among women in Lorentzville, South Africa

Elsevier, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 369, March 2025

Food insecurity increases women's vulnerability to intimate partner violence in transactional sex relationships.

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Africa

A work and off-work evaluation of female workers’ heat and particulate matter exposures and kidney health in Guatemala

Elsevier, Journal of Climate Change and Health, Volume 22, 1 March 2025

This article examines the exposures and health impacts experienced by female sugarcane workers in Guatemala, focusing on heat stress, particulate matter exposure, and kidney function. The key findings indicate that these women face elevated levels of heat and particulate matter at work, leading to dehydration and reduced kidney function. The study highlights the need for gender-responsive interventions to address the unique health risks faced by women in agricultural settings.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth; Goal 13: Climate action

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Employment decent work for all and social protection, South America

Exploring the availability and accessibility of menstrual friendly public toilets (MFPTs) in urban spaces: A global multi-city audit study

Elsevier, Health and Place, Volume 92, March 2025

The article explores the availability and accessibility of Menstrual Friendly Public Toilets (MFPTs) in urban spaces across six diverse cities globally.

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Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Global

Sexual health in women and sexual-gender-minority patients with cancer: A nationwide survey on healthcare professional awareness and attitude on behalf of MITO and AIRO-gynecology group

Elsevier, Journal of Cancer Policy, Volume 43, March 2025

Compared to male patients, sexual health remains poorly studied in women and sexual gender minority (SGM) patients with cancers. This national study addresses this.

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Europe

Gender Gap in Teaching Evaluations and its Effect on Course Enrollments

Elsevier, Economics of Education Review, Volume 104, February 2025

This paper demonstrates that, even when controlling for specific components of the same evaluation surveys, students tend to give lower overall ratings to female instructors compared to their male counterparts.

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North America

Female versus viral: Understanding the UK gender health inequalities during the Covid-19 pandemic using e-archives

Elsevier, Social Science and Medicine, Volume 366, February 2025

This transdisciplinary study, through health, feminist, and infrastructural geographical lens, examines how gender health inequalities may have emerged or worsened during Covid-19 in the UK.

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Europe

Unveiling the hidden costs: An in-depth examination of the economic impact of sexual and gender-based violence on women in Nairobi, Kenya

Elsevier, Social Sciences and Humanities Open, Volume 11, January 2025

The article examines the hidden economic costs of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) on women in Nairobi, Kenya. It utilizes the ecological model and feminist theory to understand the multidimensional impacts of SGBV at individual, relational, community, and societal levels

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Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment, Africa

Ethnicity and breast cancer incidence in over 329 500 women in England in 2011–2019

Elsevier, European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Volume , 2025

Previous studies have reported an overall lower breast cancer incidence in women from Asian and Black backgrounds compared with white women. Age standardised and age specific incidence rates in the largest specific ethnicities within Asian and Black groups are not reported. This important study uses data on population size and the age distribution of women in five ethnic groups of interest (white British, Black African, Black Caribbean, Indian and Pakistani) were extracted from the Office for National Statistics 2001, 2011 and 2021 census data for England.

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Global

Exploring menstrual hygiene management practices among displaced coastal women in Kerala, India

Elsevier, Journal of Climate Change and Health, Volume 21, 1 January 2025

This research article highlights the need to improve menstrual hygiene practices and address urinary tract infection (UTI) prevalence through better facilities during sea invasions. Collaboration with local authorities to address related concerns is recommended.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 13: Climate action

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Changes in socioeconomic differences in fruit and vegetable consumption among statutorily retiring women: A longitudinal cohort study

Elsevier, Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, Volume 29, January 2025

The article examines the longitudinal changes in socioeconomic differences in fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption among a cohort of ageing Finnish women transitioning to statutory retirement.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Europe

“Women's Lives Are on the Line, and Our Hands Are Tied”: How Television Is Reckoning With a Post-Dobbs America

Elsevier, Women's Health Issues, Volume 34, 1 November 2024

The article examines how television portrayals of abortion have shifted in the aftermath of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court decision, which revoked federal protection for abortion rights.

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North America

3D printable customized drug delivery system for the vaginal delivery of therapeutics: Unlocking potential prospects for women care

Elsevier, Annals of 3D Printed Medicine, Volume 16, November 2024

3D printing enables the creation of customized vaginal drug delivery systems that can improve women's healthcare by providing personalized, targeted, and controlled therapeutic solutions. Despite challenges, this innovative approach holds promise to unlock new possibilities for empowering women through advanced and patient-centric drug delivery technologies.

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Global

Unveiling the silent suffering: Examining the complexities of disclosure and concealment strategies in women living with obstetric fistula

Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 10, 15 October 2024

This study provides initial insights into the understudied issue of revealing or concealing strategies adopted by women living with Obstetric Fistula through the lens of Communication Privacy Management Theory. The decision to disclose or not has been established as a complex process which happens not as a one-time event but changes over time. Therefore, women living with Obstetric Fistula are coupled with the added burden of who, when, what and how they manage their diagnosis information. Providing interventions geared toward disclosure and non-disclosure strategies after diagnosis can provide enormous relief for these women.

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Global

The effect of music intervention on depression in perinatal women: A systematic review

Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 10, 15 October 2024

This study indicated that music intervention had a significant effect on alleviating perinatal depression, but the effect on anxiety was not significant. However, the results were highly heterogeneous, and large-scale, multi-center, and long-term studies are needed in the future to confirm this.

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Global

The childbirth experiences of Iranian women with birth plans

Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 10, 15 September 2024

This study show receiving a BP improves childbirth experiences in women, increases women's participation in the labor process because of increased information and awareness, and strengthens their self-control and self-management.

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Middle East, Global

Patterns of single and multiple HPV infections in female: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Elsevier, Heliyon, Volume 10, 15 September 2024

Multiple HPV infections aggravate SILs compared with single infection. The development and promotion of HPV vaccines should be carried out based on its regional difference.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 13: Climate action

Global

Gendered effects of climate change and health inequities among forcibly displaced populations: Displaced Rohingya women foster resilience through technology

Elsevier, Journal of Climate Change and Health, Volume 18, 1 July 2024

Rohingya women displaced in Bangladesh demonstrate tremendous resilience in the face of severe gender restrictions and risks to personal safety exacerbated by climate change. They have employed information and communication technologies to share health information and resources, resist restrictions on their mobility, and forge new opportunities for themselves; efforts that contributed to controlling the risk of COVID-19 transmission within the camp in early 2020 and generating an innovative early-warning system to combat disasters exacerbated by climate change.

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United States Doula Programs and Their Outcomes: A Scoping Review to Inform State-Level Policies

Elsevier, Women's Health Issues, Volume 34, 1 July 2024

The article provides a scoping review of the literature on United States doula programs and their outcomes to inform state-level policies.

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North America

Teacher candidates’ dichotomous construction of educational and gender inequalities in Türkiye during a telecollaboration project

Elsevier, Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 142, May 2024

Utilizing critical discourse analysis, this study explored how teacher candidates from Türkiye (TCTs) (re)produced the East/West binary extant in hegemonic socio-economic and sociopolitical discourses while discussing educational and gender inequalities during telecollaboration with their peers from the US.

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Asia

Gender and choices in higher education

Elsevier, Economics of Education Review, Volume 99, April 2024

This article examines gender differences in the choices of undergraduate students at a French university who are competing for seats at foreign universities to fulfill a mandatory exchange program requirement. The authors find that average- and high-ability female students request universities that are worse-ranked than their male peers, and survey results suggest that male students prioritize the academic characteristics of exchange universities whereas female students consider both academic and non-academic characteristics.

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Living with vulnerability: Triple burden through the eyes of urban slum women in Bangladesh

Elsevier, Social Sciences and Humanities Open, Volume 10, January 2024

The article explores the triple burden faced by urban slum women in Bangladesh, including their traditional reproductive, productive, and community roles. It highlights how these roles contribute to the increased workload, vulnerability, and marginalization of slum women in Bangladeshi society.

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Asia

Women's engagement in agriculture and income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa

Elsevier, Social Sciences and Humanities Open, Volume 9, January 2024

The article analyzes the effect of women's engagement in agriculture (WEA) on income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using data from 1991-2018.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Gender equality and women's empowerment, Africa

The impacts of profound gender discrimination on the survival of girls and women in son-preference countries - A systematic review

Elsevier, Health and Place, Volume 79, January 2023

The article provides a comprehensive systematic review of the empirical evidence on the impacts of profound gender discrimination on the survival of girls and women in son-preference countries.

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Asia

Representation of Women in Internal Medicine Specialties in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australasia: Cardiology's Outlier Status and the Importance of Diversity

Elsevier, American Journal of Cardiology, Volume 185, 15 December 2022

This study is the largest international investigation of women's representation in internal medicine specialties, revealing that women constitute 35% of practicing physician specialists and 43% of trainees. It identifies cardiology, gastroenterology, and respiratory/critical care as the specialties with the most significant underrepresentation of women, highlighting the need for strategies to create a more diverse and representative workforce in these fields.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Screening performance and characteristics of breast cancer detected in the Mammography Screening with Artificial Intelligence trial (MASAI): a randomised, controlled, parallel-group, non-inferiority, single-blinded, screening accuracy study

Elsevier, The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 7, March 2025

The first RCT of AI-supported mammography screening; shows the intervention results in increased cancer detection rates than standard double reading and reduces reading workload by >40%. Also important as breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women globally.

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment; Technology, Europe

Accelerating action for gender equality in health

Elsevier, 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.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Artificial intelligence-enhanced electrocardiography for the identification of a sex-related cardiovascular risk continuum: a retrospective cohort study

Elsevier, The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 7, March 2025

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.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment; Technology, Global

State-wise variation and inequalities in caesarean delivery rates in India: analysis of the National Family Health Survey-5 (2019–2021) data

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 32, January 2025

There is significant disparity in access to cesearian delivery in India,although high numbers indicate adequate access.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; gender medicine; Health and wellbeing, Asia

Empowering women oncologists in India—are we there yet?

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, Volume 32, January 2025

There is considerable gender inequality and discrimination exist in the field of oncology and prevents women from advancing as leaders in cancer research, service delivery, and policymaking in India

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Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Economic Growth, Asia

The Glass Wall: Gendered Authorship Disparities in CD 19 and BCMA CAR-T Clinical Trials for Lymphoma and Myeloma

Elsevier, Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia, Volume 24, October 2024

Women are significantly underrepresented in the field of hematology-oncology. Pivotal trials in the immune effector cell therapy show only 29.5% female authorship. This article examines the data and suggests strategies to decrease gendered authorship disparities.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Real world challenges and disparities in the systemic treatment of ovarian cancer

Elsevier, Gynecologic Oncology, Volume 185, June 2024

Low- and middle-income regions face disparities in access to ovarian cancer care, including lack of awareness, limited access to genetic and tumor testing, paucity of surgical expertise, time to approval of novel therapeutics, and treatment costs. By addressing these inequities, the core aim of this paper is to promote action through collaboration in order to overcome these barriers and promote health equity in ovarian cancer management and treatment.

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

A systematic review of ethnic minority participation in randomised controlled trials of systemic therapies for gynecological cancers

Elsevier, Gynecologic Oncology, Volume 184, May 2024

Ethnic minorities form smaller proportions of Randomised controlled trial cohorts compared to the general population. Efforts to recruit more ethnic minority patients should be made in North America and Europe and more sites in underserved regions would ensure findings are generalisable to diverse groups. This review assessed the global population enrolled in contemporary RCTs for novel therapies now routinely given for gynecological cancers, adding novel understanding of the global distribution of research sites.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Lung Cancer in Women: The Past, Present, and Future

Elsevier, Clinical Lung Cancer, Volume 25, January 2024

Women continue to lack representation in lung cancer clinical trials and are typically treated with data generated from majority male patient study populations. Clinicians should understand the unique factors and consequences associated with lung cancer in women; thus, a holistic approach that acknowledges environmental and societal factors is necessary.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 4: Quality education; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Evaluation of an advanced oral hygiene regimen on maternity outcomes in a randomized multicenter clinical trial (Oral Hygiene and Maternity Outcomes Multicenter Study)

Elsevier, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology MFM, Volume 5, August 2023

This research illustrates that an advanced oral hygiene regimen has the potential to reduce the incidence of preterm birth in socially disadvantaged obstetrical patients with higher rates of health disparities.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Global

Effective Approaches to Global Health Issues – Chapter 8: Women's Health

Manoj Sharma, Ram Lakhan, Chapter 8 - Women’s health, Effective Approaches to Global Health Issues, Academic Press, 2025, Pages 171-190, ISBN: 9780443290985

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 5: Gender Equity through its focus on women's health, an area of special concern and importance globally.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

Global

Beyond the leaves: Unveiling the societal impact of research on the self-perceived quality of life among indigenous female tea garden workers☆

Elsevier

Most indigenous women in the sub-Himalayan region of Northern Bengal have been engaged in wage labor within tea gardens. The payment system within these gardens has often lacked transparency, resulting in these workers receiving compensation below the legal minimum wage. This persistent uncertainty has had a profound impact on social behavior and self-satisfaction among the workforce. Notably, no prior study has explored the quality of life experienced by these women workers through a comprehensive examination of their perceptions, determinants, and narratives.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality

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Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 17: Partnership for the goals

Societal impact of increasing the visibility of women in biomedical and clinical research

This paper outlines recent research and highlights the need to improve the visibility and equality for women in surgery, biomedical and clinical research. Specifically, it details the current landscape for women in surgery, vision and eye research, the need for reform, potential strategies and the efforts of the Women in Vision and Eye Research Ireland to drive social change through a women's conference and award of a prize for research excellence.

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Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth

Societal impact through ethnographic research: Migrant women’s wellbeing in urban spaces

Elsevier

Using a collaborative ethnographic action-oriented approach, we researched the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of three vulnerable groups of female labour migrants in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Our goal was to understand the health challenges faced by these women and work towards effective interventions and services. Their issues often emanate from deep-seated structural inequalities, as well as legal, socio-cultural, political, and economic factors. In this article, we highlight the interconnected and overlapping - tangible and intangible - societal impacts that arose both as a consequence of our study and as inherent components of the research process in both the short and long term.

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Social impacts of inclusive education: On the requirement for an emphasis on girls with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) in research on inclusion

Elsevier

While there is an extensive and substantial body of epidemiological research on gender-specific differences regarding the prevalence, persistence, and comorbidity of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD) in childhood and adolescence, empirical research on inclusive education largely lacks a differentiated and gender-sensitive research approach. However, initial empirical findings indicate that girls with internalizing behavior problems are to be considered a particularly vulnerable group in school regarding their social integration, their self-concept, their well-being in school and their perception and interpretation of social interaction processes. Can girls with internalizing behavior problems thus be referred to as the 'forgotten gender' of empirical research on inclusive education?

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Motherhood penalty: The Brazilian peculiarity

Elsevier

In this study, we investigate the motherhood penalty in Brazil by tracking mothers in administrative databases from the years before to after the birth of the child. In particular, we analyze the wage trajectories using econometric models to estimate the counterfactuals if these women had not been mothers. In doing so, we have to take into account a Brazilian peculiarity: there is a government policy that allows mothers to opt for self-employment in order to spend more time with their children. After adapting our modeling to this specificity, the estimated wage losses of mothers are around 25% and 10% when the children are of infant and school age, respectively. The message in terms of social impact is that it is necessary to help mothers to return to the labor market after childbirth under the same conditions and with the same opportunities for professional development as before pregnancy. We believe that this support can be provided, for example, through better childcare policies in society.

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