Medical economics
Women's health services still suffering from COVID
Women's health services are far from fully being restored following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Mar 15, 2022
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How to improve gender equity in medicine
Gender equity and racial diversity in medicine can promote creative solutions to complex health problems and improve the delivery of high-quality care, argue authors in an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Feb 16, 2021
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Cardiology
Gender parity and heart failure research: Female authors could mean more female participants
While about a quarter of physicians and researchers working in advanced heart failure (HF) and transplant cardiology are women, representation of women leading HF research remains limited, according to new research led by ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Pediatrics
Wide-ranging gender disparities remain in pediatrics
Three commonly argued justifications for the persistent discrimination and gender bias that prevent women from rising to leadership positions in the field of pediatric medicine have been debunked by a Drexel University College ...
Nov 11, 2019
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Health
Forceful and dominant: men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women
Men who adhere to rigid, sexist stereotypes of how to be a man are more likely to use and tolerate violence against women.
Nov 7, 2019
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Gerontology & Geriatrics
Geriatrics experts on gender equity in health care: 'When women rise, we all rise'
Putting power and potential behind gender equity in health care isn't just common sense. It's critical to the future of health, safety, and independence for us all as we age, so says the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) ...
Oct 1, 2019
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Health
Early-career female physicians experience obstacles to professional and academic success
Individual and systemic challenges specific to female family physicians in their first five years of practice create obstacles that can result in disproportionate rates of burnout and negative impacts on career trajectories, ...
Aug 14, 2019
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Health
California above national average for sexual harassment rates: report
In the state of California, reported incidences of sexual harassment are 5 percent higher for women and 10 percent higher for men than the national average, report the authors of a joint study produced by the Center for Gender ...
May 23, 2019
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Health
The role of violence against women is overlooked in opioid epidemic
One night, a woman I'll call Tonya got a compliment from a guy when she was out with her boyfriend. Tonya's boyfriend cursed her because another man had complimented her. He said: "You give it to everybody, I want it too." ...
Mar 20, 2019
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Johns Hopkins faculty data highlight how gender disparities in salary add up over a lifetime
Around the country, women physician researchers make 7 to 8 percent less per year than men. At the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, efforts to eliminate such a gender disparity have cut the difference in salaries ...
Jan 28, 2019
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