Gender equality and women's empowerment

2023 Winners
The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World and the Elsevier Foundation celebrated the 2023 OWSD-EF Awards for Women Scientists, with researchers from Benin, Bolivia, Guatemala, Palestine, Mongolia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Awarding women scientists means not only recognizing their impressive work but empowering them to be role models. Read more about these incredible women! This article relates to SDG 5, Gender Equality.
Photos of RELX Female Technologists
Hear unique perspectives from the inspiring female technologists across RELX in celebration of International Women's Day 2023, relating to SDG 5, Gender Equality.
Under the theme "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality", the United Nations Observance of International Women's Day 2023 will highlight the need for inclusive and transformative technology and digital education. Photo: UN Trust Fund/Phil

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

 

In this special International Women's Day episode of the “World We Want” podcast series, Kume Chibsa, inspirational thought leader and CEO & Co-Founder of Afrovalley, talks to Márcia Balisciano about the agro supply chain challenges that farmers, particularly women, face in Africa and how Afrovalley uses the latest in blockchain technology to help solve them, as well as the difference between equity and equality, the importance of mental health, and many more valuable leadership insights.
Elsevier,

European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology: X,
Volume 17,
2023,
100180,
ISSN 2590-1613

Older patients seeking to conceive must be counselled regarding increased risks in order to make well-informed decisions.
Millions of children globally cannot attend school because they live on less than $1.90 a day. The article explores the relationship between SDGs 1 and 4.
This study reveals a high magnitude of poor Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among HIV-positive women. Therefore, as HRQoL domains are comprehensive indicators of living status, healthcare service providers should be dedicated to screening and supporting HIV-positive women with poor HRQoL.
This Article supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on assessing cardiovascular mortality risk in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, compared with normal blood pressure during pregnancy.
Elsevier,

Clinical Imaging, Volume 95, March 2023, Pages 62-64

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5 and 9 by outlining how, in the current legal landscape, to reduce the collection and documentation of reproductive health information in nuclear medicine in light of the SCOTUS decision on Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization that overturned a 49-year-old federal recognition of abortion rights.
Abortion access is of utmost importance to community health. It is important to elicit data to support medical education in this topic.

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