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Sex Inequalities in Medical Research: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Literature
Background. Amid calls for Australian research policy to align with those in Europe and United States and increase equality in sex and gender recruitment in medical research, 1 the sex and gender gap in medical practice is drawing increasing media attention. 2,3 Females account for >50% of the global population and, therefore, a significant proportion of the patient population, 4 yet women ...
Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we
Gender in the global research landscape: analysis of research performance through a gender lens across 20 years, 12 geographies, and 27 subject areas. ... The pay gap for women in medicine and academic medicine: an analysis of the WAM* database. British Medical Association, London 2009. ... A gender diverse medical workforce might also ...
Sex Inequalities in Medical Research: A Systematic Scoping
Background: Historically, medical studies have excluded female participants and research data have been collected from males and generalized to females. The gender gap in medical research, alongside overarching misogyny, results in real-life disadvantages for female patients. This systematic scoping review of the literature aims to determine the extent of research into the medical research sex ...
Closing the gender health gap is a $1 trillion opportunity
The report presents the gender health gap as a $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies, and to change the health of 3.9 billion women 6. Closing this gap would lead to fewer ...
Uncovering the gender health data gap
The way data are collected and interpreted by gender is subject to fundamental biases 1.This generates a gender health data gap that impacts all branches and levels of health research, including disease prevention and diagnosis, medical treatment for cancer, cardiovascular and Alzheimer's disease 2, 3.. The gender health data gap is characterized by 1, 4, 5: (1) missing or incomplete ...
Closing the gender data gap in healthcare
Closing the data gaps in women's health. Now more than ever, data is at the center of engagement and decision making. Healthcare and life sciences are no exception: data is central to discussions about public health and is core to enabling continued scientific advancement. The accelerated digitalization of healthcare during the pandemic has ...
Solving gender gaps in health, what else is missing?
In this report, it was recognized that gender inequality damages the physical and mental health of girls and women across the globe, as well as that of boys and men. In addition, it was stated that acting to improve gender equity in health is one of the most direct ways to reduce health inequities, and even approaches were proposed to achieve ...
Closing the Medical Research Gap
This medical research gap exists, in part, because too often, people think of women's health as simply their reproductive health. ... Yale University, for example, is integrating sex and gender into its medical curriculum. As the medical profession gets better at recognizing how sex and gender impact health, the U.S. will get closer to ...
One and a half million medical papers reveal a link between author
Gender and sex analysis is increasingly recognized as a key factor in creating better medical research and health care 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.Using a sample of more than 1.5 million medical research papers ...
Gender gap in medical research: a bibliometric study in Swiss
Several studies explored gender inequalities in research, but only limited data are available concerning general internal medicine and family medicine. We aimed to assess the level of gender inequalities in Swiss academic medical research. In this bibliometric study conducted in March 2020, we selected all senior hospital physicians practicing internal medicine or family medicine in the six ...
The "Gender Gap" in Authorship of Academic Medical Literature
The sex was determined for 98.5 percent of the 7249 U.S. authors of original research with M.D. degrees. The proportion of first authors who were women increased from 5.9 percent in 1970 to 29.3 ...
Women's health outcomes: Is there a gender gap?
In Focus. On 8 July 2021, the House of Lords is due to debate the steps taken to improve women's health outcomes. Research has found a gender health gap in the UK where many women receive poorer healthcare than men. This article examines some of the healthcare challenges women face, why they exist and what action the Government is taking to ...
Closing the sex and gender gap in medical research
The world of medical research is driven by rigorous processes, and it can be hard to believe that a simple fact such as sex or gender can be overlooked. However, the data gap begins at the earliest stages of medical research - when scientists study cells growing in a laboratory - and persists right up to clinical trials, which are testing ...
Gender bias in medical research: how women are still overlooked
Medical research has been disproportionately focused on male subjects for years, creating a deficit of data about women's health. Even in the preclinical stage, test animals and cells tend to be male.
Examining the Gender Gap in Emergency Medicine Research
A more pronounced gender gap exists in editorial authorship compared to research articles. On publications where the first and last author were women, a higher proportion of middle authors were women. ... Examining the Gender Gap in Emergency Medicine Research Publications Ann Emerg Med. 2022 Feb;79(2):187-195. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021 ...
Closing the gender health gap: the importance of a Women's
Men have historically been treated as the default patient in clinical practice and medical research, and women's health and healthcare needs have been marginalised. Though many issues that have disadvantaged women are global, it is matter of national shame that the UK has the widest gender health gap in the G20. Women fare more poorly ...
Gender bias in medical research: How women are still being
Medical research has been disproportionately focused on male subjects for years, creating a deficit of data about women's health. Even in the preclinical stage, test animals and cells tend to be male. Scientists say that despite decades of alarm-ringing over the exclusion of women from clinical trials, they continue to be underrepresented.
Mars vs. Venus: The gender gap in health
At age 65, for every 100 American women, there are only 77 men. At age 85, the disparity is even greater, with women outnumbering men by 2.6 to 1. And the longevity gap persists even into very old age, long after hormones have passed their peak; among centenarians, there are four females for every male. The gender gap is not unique to America.
Drugs and gender bias in medicine: how medical research is failing women
How medical research is failing women. ... In 2022, she co-founded the Medical Science Sex and Gender Equity (Message) project at the George Institute for Global Health, which has major centres ...
Gender-based differences in the representation and experiences of
Research evidence suggests gender-based differences in the extent and experiences of academic leaders across the globe even in developed countries like USA, UK, and Canada. The under-representation is particularly common in higher education organizations, including medical and dental schools. The current study aimed to investigate gender-based distribution and explore leaders' experiences in ...
6 conditions that highlight the women's health gap
For instance, the women's health gap equates to 75 million years of life lost due to poor health or early death each year. Closing the gap would give the 3.9 billion women in the world today an extra seven healthy days a year, or an average of 500 days over a lifetime. This gap has economic consequences as well.
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943 likes, 24 comments - mindbodygreen on August 16, 2024: "Women are not small men!!! Medical research has a wildly problematic gender gap. For centuries, women have been underrepresented in research topics including cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, building muscle, nutrition, movement, and so much more. Oftentimes, women are just given the same protocols as men—and ...
Grad student Grayson Jackson and Drs. Jacob Moses and Lisa Campo
Their article, "Breaking Binaries: The Critical Need for Feminist Bioethics in Pediatric Gender-Affirming Care," was published in the Hastings Center Report. Abstract: This commentary responds to Moti Gorin's article "What Is the Aim of Pediatric 'Gender-Affirming' Care?" We argue that Gorin's case against pediatric gender-affirming care rests upon numerous false conceptual ...
New research from EGC's Gender and Growth Gaps project featured in the
EGC Gender and Growth Gaps Research Featured in World Bank's 2024 World Development Report. By Adam Walker August 2, 2024. New research from EGC's Gender and Growth Gaps project was featured in the World Bank's 2024 World Development Report, released on August 2. The 2024 WDR focuses on the "Middle-Income Trap", a situation where growth slows when countries hit middle-income levels, and ...
Why the former USSR has far fewer men than women
Younger men in the former Soviet Union also have an unusually high mortality rate, which has widened the population's gender imbalance. One way to see this is to look at the life expectancy of men and women and the differences between those numbers. Russian women born from 2010 to 2015 are expected to live to age 75.6, while Russian men are expected to live to age 64.2, a gap of 11.4 years.
College Major Selection, Social Class, and the Gender Pay Gap in the
Although researchers have made plausible arguments about the contributions of several factors, occupational segregation and the "motherhood penalty" are widely considered to be two of the most important causes of the gender pay gap in the United States today. In this article we discuss some of the most important findings in the gender pay gap research in the U.S.
PDF Transgender Health Care in Russia
Saint Petersburg, Russia. The ability to change registered sex on the basis of transsexualism appeared in Russia only with the adoption of a law in 1997. There are no medical standards regulating the process leading up to the issuance of such a certificate. There are no laws regulating the procedure for changing name and registered gender.
Trans Healthcare & Support Services
Please call (727) 321-3854 if you're in Pinellas or, (813) 232-3808 if you're in Hillsborough, to find out more information. A 501 (c)3 non-profit healthcare organization, providing 100+ programs and services to support community health. Trans Healthcare and support services offered at METRO provide a streamlined approach to gneder ...
Trump vs. Harris Poised To Be Largest Gender Divide in
The gender gap was even bigger in the latest Quinnipiac University poll in which Harris had a 16-point lead among women (56 percent to 40 percent), while men sided with Trump by 23 points (60 ...
Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology
Federal State Institution "National Medical Research Center of Oncology named after N.N. Petrov"of the Ministry of Health of Russian Federation is the largest specialized medical institution in the country. Center provides treatment to cancer patients at all stages of the disease in all directions. Center uses both classical and innovative methods.
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COMMENTS
Background. Amid calls for Australian research policy to align with those in Europe and United States and increase equality in sex and gender recruitment in medical research, 1 the sex and gender gap in medical practice is drawing increasing media attention. 2,3 Females account for >50% of the global population and, therefore, a significant proportion of the patient population, 4 yet women ...
Gender in the global research landscape: analysis of research performance through a gender lens across 20 years, 12 geographies, and 27 subject areas. ... The pay gap for women in medicine and academic medicine: an analysis of the WAM* database. British Medical Association, London 2009. ... A gender diverse medical workforce might also ...
Background: Historically, medical studies have excluded female participants and research data have been collected from males and generalized to females. The gender gap in medical research, alongside overarching misogyny, results in real-life disadvantages for female patients. This systematic scoping review of the literature aims to determine the extent of research into the medical research sex ...
The report presents the gender health gap as a $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies, and to change the health of 3.9 billion women 6. Closing this gap would lead to fewer ...
The way data are collected and interpreted by gender is subject to fundamental biases 1.This generates a gender health data gap that impacts all branches and levels of health research, including disease prevention and diagnosis, medical treatment for cancer, cardiovascular and Alzheimer's disease 2, 3.. The gender health data gap is characterized by 1, 4, 5: (1) missing or incomplete ...
Closing the data gaps in women's health. Now more than ever, data is at the center of engagement and decision making. Healthcare and life sciences are no exception: data is central to discussions about public health and is core to enabling continued scientific advancement. The accelerated digitalization of healthcare during the pandemic has ...
In this report, it was recognized that gender inequality damages the physical and mental health of girls and women across the globe, as well as that of boys and men. In addition, it was stated that acting to improve gender equity in health is one of the most direct ways to reduce health inequities, and even approaches were proposed to achieve ...
This medical research gap exists, in part, because too often, people think of women's health as simply their reproductive health. ... Yale University, for example, is integrating sex and gender into its medical curriculum. As the medical profession gets better at recognizing how sex and gender impact health, the U.S. will get closer to ...
Gender and sex analysis is increasingly recognized as a key factor in creating better medical research and health care 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.Using a sample of more than 1.5 million medical research papers ...
Several studies explored gender inequalities in research, but only limited data are available concerning general internal medicine and family medicine. We aimed to assess the level of gender inequalities in Swiss academic medical research. In this bibliometric study conducted in March 2020, we selected all senior hospital physicians practicing internal medicine or family medicine in the six ...
The sex was determined for 98.5 percent of the 7249 U.S. authors of original research with M.D. degrees. The proportion of first authors who were women increased from 5.9 percent in 1970 to 29.3 ...
In Focus. On 8 July 2021, the House of Lords is due to debate the steps taken to improve women's health outcomes. Research has found a gender health gap in the UK where many women receive poorer healthcare than men. This article examines some of the healthcare challenges women face, why they exist and what action the Government is taking to ...
The world of medical research is driven by rigorous processes, and it can be hard to believe that a simple fact such as sex or gender can be overlooked. However, the data gap begins at the earliest stages of medical research - when scientists study cells growing in a laboratory - and persists right up to clinical trials, which are testing ...
Medical research has been disproportionately focused on male subjects for years, creating a deficit of data about women's health. Even in the preclinical stage, test animals and cells tend to be male.
A more pronounced gender gap exists in editorial authorship compared to research articles. On publications where the first and last author were women, a higher proportion of middle authors were women. ... Examining the Gender Gap in Emergency Medicine Research Publications Ann Emerg Med. 2022 Feb;79(2):187-195. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021 ...
Men have historically been treated as the default patient in clinical practice and medical research, and women's health and healthcare needs have been marginalised. Though many issues that have disadvantaged women are global, it is matter of national shame that the UK has the widest gender health gap in the G20. Women fare more poorly ...
Medical research has been disproportionately focused on male subjects for years, creating a deficit of data about women's health. Even in the preclinical stage, test animals and cells tend to be male. Scientists say that despite decades of alarm-ringing over the exclusion of women from clinical trials, they continue to be underrepresented.
At age 65, for every 100 American women, there are only 77 men. At age 85, the disparity is even greater, with women outnumbering men by 2.6 to 1. And the longevity gap persists even into very old age, long after hormones have passed their peak; among centenarians, there are four females for every male. The gender gap is not unique to America.
How medical research is failing women. ... In 2022, she co-founded the Medical Science Sex and Gender Equity (Message) project at the George Institute for Global Health, which has major centres ...
Research evidence suggests gender-based differences in the extent and experiences of academic leaders across the globe even in developed countries like USA, UK, and Canada. The under-representation is particularly common in higher education organizations, including medical and dental schools. The current study aimed to investigate gender-based distribution and explore leaders' experiences in ...
For instance, the women's health gap equates to 75 million years of life lost due to poor health or early death each year. Closing the gap would give the 3.9 billion women in the world today an extra seven healthy days a year, or an average of 500 days over a lifetime. This gap has economic consequences as well.
943 likes, 24 comments - mindbodygreen on August 16, 2024: "Women are not small men!!! Medical research has a wildly problematic gender gap. For centuries, women have been underrepresented in research topics including cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, building muscle, nutrition, movement, and so much more. Oftentimes, women are just given the same protocols as men—and ...
Their article, "Breaking Binaries: The Critical Need for Feminist Bioethics in Pediatric Gender-Affirming Care," was published in the Hastings Center Report. Abstract: This commentary responds to Moti Gorin's article "What Is the Aim of Pediatric 'Gender-Affirming' Care?" We argue that Gorin's case against pediatric gender-affirming care rests upon numerous false conceptual ...
EGC Gender and Growth Gaps Research Featured in World Bank's 2024 World Development Report. By Adam Walker August 2, 2024. New research from EGC's Gender and Growth Gaps project was featured in the World Bank's 2024 World Development Report, released on August 2. The 2024 WDR focuses on the "Middle-Income Trap", a situation where growth slows when countries hit middle-income levels, and ...
Younger men in the former Soviet Union also have an unusually high mortality rate, which has widened the population's gender imbalance. One way to see this is to look at the life expectancy of men and women and the differences between those numbers. Russian women born from 2010 to 2015 are expected to live to age 75.6, while Russian men are expected to live to age 64.2, a gap of 11.4 years.
Although researchers have made plausible arguments about the contributions of several factors, occupational segregation and the "motherhood penalty" are widely considered to be two of the most important causes of the gender pay gap in the United States today. In this article we discuss some of the most important findings in the gender pay gap research in the U.S.
Saint Petersburg, Russia. The ability to change registered sex on the basis of transsexualism appeared in Russia only with the adoption of a law in 1997. There are no medical standards regulating the process leading up to the issuance of such a certificate. There are no laws regulating the procedure for changing name and registered gender.
Please call (727) 321-3854 if you're in Pinellas or, (813) 232-3808 if you're in Hillsborough, to find out more information. A 501 (c)3 non-profit healthcare organization, providing 100+ programs and services to support community health. Trans Healthcare and support services offered at METRO provide a streamlined approach to gneder ...
The gender gap was even bigger in the latest Quinnipiac University poll in which Harris had a 16-point lead among women (56 percent to 40 percent), while men sided with Trump by 23 points (60 ...
Federal State Institution "National Medical Research Center of Oncology named after N.N. Petrov"of the Ministry of Health of Russian Federation is the largest specialized medical institution in the country. Center provides treatment to cancer patients at all stages of the disease in all directions. Center uses both classical and innovative methods.