• Horte was a determined advocate of women's rights, committed to advancing the cause of women in society and fighting for equality in the workplace. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Partnering with the Calgary Immigrant Women's Association, Lightman has begun interviewing immigrant women care workers, with a focus on how their work, their security and their lives have been impacted by the pandemic. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Our Bodies Ourselves Today-a collaboration of the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University and the nonprofit organization Our Bodies Ourselves-features trustworthy, up-to-date, curated information on the health and sexuality of women, girls, and gender-expansive people. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Compared with earlier studies on women's reasons for not using contraception, larger proportions of women now cite side effects and infrequent sex as reasons for nonuse. (guttmacher.org)
  • Still Dying on the Inside reframes deaths in custody as a form of violence against women, given many women's experiences of domestic violence, abuse and trauma. (inquest.org.uk)
  • While Ministers continue to drag their heels on the women's justice strategy, which was due in 2017, women continue to die. (inquest.org.uk)
  • Here we focus on women's perceived threats to the stability of their power and the degree to which women feel they do not deserve their power positions, as reflected in their impostor feelings. (frontiersin.org)
  • Empowerment-themed advertisements are becoming an attractive marketing strategy for companies due to their popularity among female consumers, but there is no known empirical work examining their effectiveness at increasing women's felt empowerment. (springer.com)
  • The writ petition filed in this case by the women's organisations was aimed at enforcing fundamental rights of working women, finding suitable methods for realisation of gender equality, preventing sexual harassment and filling the vacuum in existing legislation. (epw.in)
  • Increasing recognition of covertures flexibility though has broken apart the idea that women were simply absent from the legal and economic spheres as a result of what eighteenth century jurist William Blackstone famously dubbed the "suspension" of women's legal existence in marriage. (phanza.org.nz)
  • This talk examines women's participation in contractual litigation involving moveable property in colonial New Zealand and women's ability to operate as legal persons under colonial law both before and after legislative reform. (phanza.org.nz)
  • I hypothesize that an increase in the descriptive representation of Black women results in increased voter turnout, more positive evaluations of government, and state's prioritizing policies in favor of Black women's interests. (auburn.edu)
  • In 'The Constitution as Social Design,' Ritter examines how women's struggles for equality are both inspired by the Constitution and the social roles it creates. (utexas.edu)
  • A new study appearing in this month's issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine adds to the growing body of research noting differences in injury rates and severity of ACL injuries among males and females. (athleticbusiness.com)
  • This particular study , involving researchers from Washington University School of Medicine and the Santa Monica (Calif.) Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation , found that male soccer players are more likely to sustain ACL injuries in their dominant kicking legs, while females are more likely to suffer ACL injuries in their supporting legs. (athleticbusiness.com)
  • The BJSM study looked at ACL injuries in dominant versus supporting legs among 93 athletes: 41 male and 52 female. (athleticbusiness.com)
  • The study did not examine the fen-phen combination. (mndaily.com)
  • This study examines survey data from 2,129 undergraduate women at the 2015 and 2019 American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) in order to classify what led them to study physics. (per-central.org)
  • In Experiment 2, a more diverse sample of 326 U.S. women completed an online version of the study with a new measure of felt empowerment. (springer.com)
  • A new study investigating the potential influence of social, behavioral and environmental factors on how genes work ( gene expression ) and affect lupus outcomes in African American women is underway. (lupus.org)
  • The Social Factors, Epigenomics and Lupus in African American Women Study aims to evaluate the effects of racial discrimination and social support on lupus outcomes through changes in gene expression. (lupus.org)
  • The findings from this study will help identify positive and negative impacts that influence health trajectories in health disparate populations, such as African American women. (lupus.org)
  • More specifically, this clinical trial has been planned as a prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, to examine the: Effects of Different Cannabidiol Doses on Reducing the Frequency and Severity of Nausea in Otherwise Healthy Pregnant Women with Excessive First Trimester Emesis and the Diagnosis of Hyperemesis Gravidarum. (advfn.com)
  • Understanding the ways in which women persist in the face of barriers in engineering will be the focus of a collaborative study by education researchers at Vanderbilt and Purdue universities. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • The three-year study, "Why We Persist: An Intersectional Study to Characterize and Examine the Experiences of Women Tenure-Track Faculty in Engineering," is supported by a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation . (vanderbilt.edu)
  • The three-phase study examines how and why women persist in faculty engineering positions despite barriers to success in the context of race, class and gender. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • This study will allow us to further delineate how racism and classism manifest within academia and how women persist in the face of these structural barriers," McGee said. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • The present study sought to address 2 limitations of previous athlete-leadership research: (a) Researchers have predominantly examined the shared nature of athlete leadership using aggregated approaches, which has limited our ability to examine differences in the degree of sharedness between teams, and (b) the limited availability of research related to dyadic predictors (i.e., qualities of the relation between 2 individuals) of athlete leadership. (humankinetics.com)
  • In this study, telecommuting by focusing on women employees' characteristics is examined. (port.ac.uk)
  • I find that the impact of Black women varied across each study. (auburn.edu)
  • The purpose of this study was to examine Black women 's information seeking behaviors as a response to the death of the singer Aretha Franklin from pancreatic cancer and the role of fatalistic beliefs about cancer in the information seeking process. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study advances the understanding of cancer information seeking among Black women . (bvsalud.org)
  • Participants were university employees (103 women and 99 men) who volunteered for a reliability study of health behavior questionnaires and moderately obese volunteers (223 women and. (lu.se)
  • Participants were university employees (103 women and 99 men) who volunteered for a reliability study of health behavior questionnaires and moderately obese volunteers (223 women and 101 men) to two weight-loss studies who were recruited by newspaper advertisements. (lu.se)
  • Prior to the Act's passing, when a Māori or Pākehā woman married a settler man in New Zealand, she became subject to the doctrine of coverture, a legal doctrine inherited from the English common law that subsumed a married woman's official legal status into that of her husband's and hindered her ability to own or control property. (phanza.org.nz)
  • 90% of women who have cer- woman's health thereafter is simulated by a Markov model. (cdc.gov)
  • 2019 estimates to examine differences during the COVID-19 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • We compared are about the blood stool or fecal occult blood test, fecal immuno- estimates from 2021 with 2019 estimates to examine differences chemical or FIT test. (cdc.gov)
  • Edith's maternal grandmother Lucy White Logwood, in contrast, preached modesty and "proper" female behavior. (wboi.org)
  • This month, Lightman begins her latest research project, examining the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on immigrant women care aides working in Calgary's long-term care facilities. (ucalgary.ca)
  • This dissertation investigates how the inclusion of Black women in politics impacts democratic norms in three unique ways: voter turnout, evaluations of government, and legislative policy priorities. (auburn.edu)
  • Lightman plans on translating her findings into a policy report, which she hopes will lead to positive changes for immigrant women care workers. (ucalgary.ca)
  • As with past research, these findings confirm that female athletes are far more susceptible to ACL injury. (athleticbusiness.com)
  • We decided that the least we can do as a company is summarize our findings in an infographic to underline the difficulties women face when entering the male-dominated field of engineering, hoping we can also trigger further support from others. (progressiveengineer.com)
  • With this unique sample of high-powered women, our findings help illustrate the forces that make women experience power as precarious, thereby shedding light on the disadvantages these women face. (frontiersin.org)
  • to determine the extent of miscarriage of justice in England, the findings indicated that there is 65% of miscarriage of justice against women, men from ethnic minority backgrounds and compared to 20 % of men from lower social class groups, have a direct relationship to the disproportionate division of power in society. (essaywriter.org)
  • Moreover, while we found fatalistic beliefs to be associated with pancreatic cancer information seeking, the findings were driven by younger women . (bvsalud.org)
  • Hosted by FlightGlobal's Murdo Morrison, the webinar examines how the industry is badly in need of flightcrew, so encouraging more women to train - and remain - as pilots would seem to be not just an equality issue but simply good commercial sense. (flightglobal.com)
  • Article 14 was interpreted from the point of view of gender equality, which meant that women have a right to work with dignity, and they are to be protected from sexual harassment. (epw.in)
  • While Sweden is a country that holds the first place in the EU on the Gender Equality Index, women are a minority in the energy sector, with 76% of employees being men. (lu.se)
  • A new project conducted by Jenny Palm , Daniela Lazoroska and Anna-Riikka Kojonsaari aims to examine the conditions for women working in the Swedish energy sector, as well as follow their initiatives towards increased diversity and equality therein. (lu.se)
  • A new project aims to understand why women remain a minority in the energy sector and create qualitative research-based tools that can lead to greater diversity and inclusion on multiple levels of decision making. (lu.se)
  • But Senate Democratic Minority Leader Gloria Butler applauded the move, saying Jones' role should be examined. (myhighplains.com)
  • Additionally, few studies have examined the health communication behaviors of minority individuals. (bvsalud.org)
  • I've been researching immigrant women care workers in Canada for the past seven years," says Lightman. (ucalgary.ca)
  • Another factor contributing to the high number of immigrant women in care work is Canada's federal caregiver program, says Lightman, with an immigration stream devoted to bringing in care workers from other countries. (ucalgary.ca)
  • She is the author of 'Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives' and the chapter 'Nunca he dejado de tener terror: Sexual Violence in the Lives of Mexican Immigrant Women' in the forthcoming book 'Women in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands. (utexas.edu)
  • We used 2021 National Health Interview Survey data to examine the most recent national estimates of screening test use, disparities, and compari- were similar in 2019 and 2021. (cdc.gov)
  • To discuss the topic and examine efforts being made to redress the gender balance, Morrison talks to two experts in the field: Capt Marnie Munns - a senior captain with EasyJet, and Capt Leo Nugent - a training pilot who is also a senior official with the British Airline Pilots Association. (flightglobal.com)
  • Thus, our first aim in the present research is to show that the negative workplace experiences of women when climbing the power ladder (i.e., gender discrimination, denigrating treatment, and lack of cultural fit and mentoring) are associated with heightened perceptions of power threat. (frontiersin.org)
  • Violence against women perpetrated by men is gender-based and socially shaped. (epw.in)
  • On this episode of Life Examined, Samira Mehta , associate professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and director of the program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder , shares her insights on human life and personhood from the perspectives of faith and religion. (colorado.edu)
  • The Department of Women and Gender studies acknowledges that the University of Colorado Boulder sits upon land within the territories of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho peoples. (colorado.edu)
  • Although it is factual that miscarriages of justice are done against men and women, the frequency of its impact varies depending on gender, social status and race. (essaywriter.org)
  • They also will implement a national survey exploring issues of race, class and gender among women faculty in engineering. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Researchers will collect the stories and experiences of women faculty in engineering in order to examine their positive and negative experiences, what motivates the women, how they navigate academia and how they define and achieve success. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Here we propose that these workplace experiences not only impact women on their paths to power, but also have detrimental consequences once these women reach the top, by shaping their sense of power threat. (frontiersin.org)
  • Generally, this dissertation shows that the impact of Black women in politics is complex and should be further studied. (auburn.edu)
  • Cancer Fatalism and Cancer Information Seeking Among Black Women: Examining the Impact of Aretha Franklin's Death on Cancer Communication Outcomes. (bvsalud.org)
  • Some of our colleagues are German, some are from the United States, and others are from Poland or Uzbekistan, and the ratio of men to women is currently about 60:40. (progressiveengineer.com)
  • McGee, Cox and their colleagues will gather statistics from tenure-track female faculty members at about 350 accredited engineering institutions through an American Society for Engineering Education database. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • All sexually active women, whether married or not, need information about their risk of becoming pregnant and about the choices of methods that could meet their needs. (guttmacher.org)
  • Generally speaking, women are considered to have an unmet need if they are sexually active and want to avoid becoming pregnant but are not using contraception. (guttmacher.org)
  • Each month, women are at risk of developing Human papillomavirus (HPV) vical cancer also have been infected with HPV (1-7). (cdc.gov)
  • Using a survey conducted a few weeks after Franklin's death (N = 164), we found moderate amounts of pancreatic cancer information seeking, with almost 30% of women looking for information. (bvsalud.org)
  • In particular, younger women were more likely to seek pancreatic cancer information regardless of their beliefs about cancer . (bvsalud.org)
  • Implications for cancer communication with Black women are discussed. (bvsalud.org)
  • Younger Black women were much more likely to search for information after Franklin's death than older women . (bvsalud.org)
  • Future research, according to the study's authors, may determine why female athletes are more prone to sustaining ACL injuries on their supporting leg. (athleticbusiness.com)
  • The male-dominated golf industry still has not successfully examined nor identified fundamental flaws within its own ranks, resorts, facilities, and marketing lapses that continue to drive women away. (dbusiness.com)
  • It used the case as a concrete illustration of the systemic violation of rights, and then demonstrated a pattern of abuse by providing examples of five other women who experienced sexual assault while at work. (epw.in)
  • The Health Assembly also examined the Eleventh General Programme of Work, 2006-2015. (who.int)
  • She undertakes this project thanks to the Thelma Margaret Horte Memorial Fellowship in Women and Society, a $10,000 annual research award that was established for the Faculty of Arts in Horte's memory. (ucalgary.ca)
  • The present research identifies key workplace characteristics that are associated with these internalized power threats with survey data collected among 185 women in high-power positions. (frontiersin.org)
  • In doing so, we build on a wealth of research that has documented specific barriers that women face during their career, and specifically on their paths to power (e.g. (frontiersin.org)
  • Her research focuses on how sexual abuse affects sexual function in women. (utexas.edu)
  • Is there evidence that mental illnesses and disorders affect some populations more than others, such as women, for example? (medscape.com)
  • It's 11-years' worth of data showing the effectiveness of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) in minimally invasive treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • Pregnant women frequently ingest multiple medications for which there is little data on the effectiveness and safety for both themselves or their developing fetuses. (advfn.com)
  • Despite being considered a vulnerable population, pregnant women have few clinical trials presenting rigorous scientific data to understand how these molecules interact with the mother and fetus. (advfn.com)
  • The secondary analysis of follow up survey data used multivariate logistic regression to examine associations between intervention exposure and interpersonal communication, and relationship change ( n = 928). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Helene and Dr. Oz discuss the warning signs for silent killers, including heart attacks that present differently in women, cancers, and more. (womenworking.com)
  • For women, the most common cancers are breast and uterine. (iwpr.net)
  • a community mobilisation approach for preventing HIV and violence against women, diffused within intervention communities and the factors that influenced the uptake of new ideas and behaviours around intimate partner relationships and violence. (biomedcentral.com)
  • CONCLUSIONS: The success of cluster analysis in identifying dietary exposure categories with unique demographic and nutritional correlates suggests that the approach may be useful in epidemiologic studies that examine conditions such as obesity, and in the design of nutrition interventions. (lu.se)
  • In general, I don't think we can say that mental health conditions or disorders affect women more than men. (medscape.com)
  • Another possible explanation is hormonal, resulting in weaker ligaments among women. (athleticbusiness.com)
  • Every year, an estimated 74 million unintended pregnancies occur in developing regions, the great majority of which are among women using no contraception or a traditional method. (guttmacher.org)
  • Ending the HIV epidemic among women in the U.S. (hiv.gov)
  • Numerous design features have been added to cars, with selling techniques mastered to make sure that 75 percent of those women who come into the dealership with buying power in hand don't walk away disappointed and disillusioned. (dbusiness.com)
  • Rebecca Roberts now works for the Library of Congress and writes histories of women in Washington. (wboi.org)
  • Methods AA (n = 94, 16.8%) and MA (n = 465, 83.2%) women (14-18 years) with histories of sexually transmitted infection (STI) or violence and high risk sexual behaviour were recruited from metropolitan public-health clinics. (bmj.com)
  • Less than one in 20 pilots is female and the proportion is even smaller when it comes to captains, with just a few hundred in the entire world. (flightglobal.com)
  • Considering that engineering has great prospects and guarantees a stable income almost anywhere in the world, we became curious why women are so severely under-represented in this field. (progressiveengineer.com)
  • Some women of color in that world were silenced in reporting sexual abuse, which has become a lingering cultural force. (publicnewsservice.org)
  • Younger women, Spanish-speaking women, and women with some college education were most likely to correctly assess the safety of the pill for them - interestingly, number of children or contraception use did not seem to have any effect on the rate of correct answers. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
  • In the majority of countries, married women who cite concerns about contraceptive side effects and health risks are more likely to have used a method in the past than are women who cite other reasons for nonuse. (guttmacher.org)
  • We know that these workers are disproportionately immigrant, racialized women - often Filipino and Black women, in particular. (ucalgary.ca)
  • I found null results when considering how Black women legislators influence voter turnout. (auburn.edu)
  • Lastly, descriptive representation of Black women can translate into substantive representation, but this link is conditional on other institutional factors, and the relationship is not always positive. (auburn.edu)
  • Every year, nearly 50 percent of all new golfers are women, a figure that hasn't changed much over the last 25 years. (dbusiness.com)
  • In the past few years, women have built associations to provide others with networking opportunities, mentorship, and shed light on the challenges they encounter. (lu.se)
  • Buel has worked with battered women, abused children and juveniles in the legal system for 30 years. (utexas.edu)
  • The ratio of male to female cases was 1.781 to 1, and the average age of BE patients was 49.07 +/- 5.09 years. (who.int)
  • Sexually active women in developing countries who have an unmet need for contraception, meaning they wish to avoid pregnancy but are not using any contraceptive (traditional or modern), generally cite one of several key reasons for not using a method. (guttmacher.org)
  • Exposure to sexually objectifying media and body self-perceptions among college women: An examination of the selective exposure hypothesis and the role of moderating variables. (springer.com)
  • BALPA believes airlines could do more to prevent women leaving the profession by creating more flexible working patterns. (flightglobal.com)
  • Munns is the face of EasyJet's Amy Johnson Flying Initiative, a campaign to bring the percentage of women pilots flying for EasyJet to 20% by 2020. (flightglobal.com)
  • 94 women have died in prison since the 2007 publication of Baroness Corston's ground-breaking review of women in the criminal justice system. (inquest.org.uk)
  • Divert women away from the criminal justice system. (inquest.org.uk)
  • We intend to add to the fund of knowledge regarding the effects of CBD on pregnant women by performing this and other scientific clinical trials. (advfn.com)
  • Results indicate the significance of the effects of telecommuting for women. (port.ac.uk)
  • Meston is the director of the Female Sexual Psychophysiology Lab at the university and associate editor for the Journal of Sexual Medicine. (utexas.edu)
  • One of the major milestones of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 is to provide a special redress mechanism for complaints in the unorganised sector. (epw.in)
  • The judgment filled a gap in domestic laws related to violence against women in India and upheld the constitutional rights of women by directly applying the provisions of CEDAW to enact guidelines against sexual harassment in the workplace (Sood 2006). (epw.in)
  • It is estimated that about 14 percent of tenure-track faculty members in engineering are female. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Using binary logit and ordered probit models, women employees' preferences towards telecommuting and their preferences of working from home or local offices as well as the frequency of doing telecommuting are modelled. (port.ac.uk)
  • Background Evaluate depressive symptoms and substance use among high risk Mexican (MA) and African (AA)-American adolescent women and identify factors associated with substance use to inform development of community-based interventions for high risk adolescents. (bmj.com)
  • Multivariable linear regressions examined factors associated with engagement. (cdc.gov)
  • The increasing role of women in social and economical activities expands their contributions to urban traffic. (port.ac.uk)
  • Various studies conducted on women fat loss issue confirmed that it is really very hard for the women to lose their stubborn fat due to presence of nine times more Alpha Receptors that helps to store fat than Beta Receptors that actually burn fats. (newswire.com)
  • This paper examines the functioning of the local committees in general, based on the experiences of the author as an acting chairperson of the Mumbai city district local committee. (epw.in)
  • Since the Corston Review, there has been little systemic change and for far too many women, prison remains a disproportionate and inappropriate response. (inquest.org.uk)
  • An urgent review of the deaths of women following release from prison. (inquest.org.uk)
  • A woman who lives with muscular dystrophy thought prison guards were trying to kill her when she was repeatedly dropped while being transferred in and out of her wheelchair. (abc.net.au)
  • She said other female prisoners were employed in the 'highest paying jobs in the prison' to be her carers and they would put hair and spit in her food. (abc.net.au)
  • The only thing that tells between miscarriages of justice on females from other forms of violence is that the risk feature in the case of miscarriage of justice consists of the simple reality of being a woman. (essaywriter.org)
  • A new three-part documentary film series examines the intersection of sports and identity within a community. (publicnewsservice.org)
  • Most notably, the automobile industry experienced a resurgence of sorts when savvy marketing executives figured out how to appeal to women who not only buy their own cars but also influence buying decisions for their family. (dbusiness.com)