International Women's Day 2023

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.

In support of SDG 5 and 11, this Study discusses which transport infrastructure innovations are required to support gender-equitable cycling, especially in developing countries.

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16 by assessing changes in stillbirth rates overall and for Black and White women, finding that there was a substantial racial disparity and suggesting that targeted health and social policies are needed to address this issue.

This Article supports SDG 3 and 5 by demonstrating the need to better understand the roles that male partners play in encouraging or discouraging care-seeking behaviours during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

This Editorial highlights 17 contributions from outstanding women researchers in chemical engineering supporting SDG 5 (Gender equality) as well as SDG 9 (Industry, innovation and infrastructure).

This Study supports SDGs 3, 5 and 10, investigating the impact of chemotherapy on the immune system of older women with breast cancer.

This Article supports SDG 3 and 5 by highlighting a need for greater involvement of in-country authors on research examining a wider range of gendered COVID-19 impacts, as well as increased representation of diverse topics and publications related to COVID-19 and women's well-being focused on lower income countries.

This Study supports SDG 5 and 3 by examining the role of improved women's agency on the pathway from the intervention to nutritional impacts.

This Review supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on the gendered association between unpaid labour and mental health, particularly in relation to the fact that women do more hours of unpaid labour worldwide than men. The Review found that unpaid labour is associated with worse mental health in women than in men.

This Article supports SDG 5 by examining factors associated with implementation of organisational interventions for advancing women in health-care leadership.

This Article supports SDG 3, 4, and 5 by highlighting that more than 160 million women aged 15-24 years globally have a need for contraception that is not currently met by existing family planning programs, thus hindering or eliminating their education and employment opportunities.

This Article supports SDG 3 and 5 by exploring the indirect effects of COVID-19 on gender disparities globally, showing intensified levels of pre-existing widespread inequalities for a range of health, social, and economic indicators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on the association between common urogenital infections and cervical neoplasia in a cohort of women.

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5, and 10 focusing on the religious and cultural aspects that influence Arab American women's perspectives on health-care in the USA.

This Editorial supports SDGs 3 and 5, exploring career-related challenges of childbearing and highlighting opportunities for radiologists in various career stages, so that they can make informed childbearing decisions.

This Editorial encourages SDGs 5 and 10 by dispelling the 10 most common misconceptions about the fields of radiology and radiation oncology that deter women from pursuing these specialties.

This Article support SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on assessing outcomes in premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer receiving ovarian suppression, in particular comparing tamoxifen versus aromatase inhibitors in this population.

This Article advances SDGs 5, 9 and 10 by proposing intentional strategies for closing the gender pay gap in radiology, one of the four medical specialties with the largest gender pay gap. Closing the gender pay gap will demonstrate that radiology values diversity, inclusion, families, and patient outcomes.

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on the association between testosterone concentrations and risk of major adverse cardiac events in older women.

This Review supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on screening, detection, and treatment of oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancers in older women, particularly in relation to recent moves to de-escalate some interventions for this population.

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 5, focusing on blood pressure and hypertension treatment and their association with cognitive impairment and dementia in older women.

This Research Paper supports SDG 5 by providing an evidence base on organisational interventions for advancing women in leadership across diverse settings, with lessons for the health-care sector.

This Article supports SDG 5 in providing insights into the feminist geographies in the digital space of online gaming.

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5 and 10, summarizing a discussion on workplace flexibility held by the AAWR at the RSNA 2021 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, and highlighting the positive impact various aspects of flexible work arrangements have on women.

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.

This Study supports SDG 5 and SDG 11 by discussing innovations in micro-mobility and their unequal impacts by gender.

This Review supports SDG 5 by describing a new framework and capacity development approach, the Public Leadership for Gender Equality (PL4GE), that promotes six key leadership practices for gender transformative change in public health.

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.

This Article supports SDGs 3, 5, and 13, focusing on the mechanisms for adverse outcomes caused by environmental heat stress in pregnant subsistence farmers.

This viewpoint supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16, focusing on the drivers of Black maternal mortality and advocating the collection of disaggregated data to support improvements in Black maternal health.

This Study supports SDGs 3, 5 and 10 by exploring the national impact of limited English proficiency (LEP) in breast cancer screening. Previously unknown, the results showed that LEP women, particularly Spanish speakers, are associated with a lower probability of having a screening mammogram.

This Study supports SDGs 3, 5 and 10 by highlighting the significant variability in insurance coverage of Prophylactic Mastectomy (PM) between companies which can lead to further inequalities in access to this breast cancer risk reducing procedure. Physicians and patients alike should advocate for fair and equal access to PM for certain clinical indications.

An investigation, linking particularly well to SDGs 10 and 5 focusing on equality, which shows how researchers can actively engage with equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in their work, and how EDI considerations must remain an ongoing effort. The authors, working in the field of responsible research and innovation (RRI), intentionally employed EDI in their project recruitment, and reflect here on the adjustments they made as a result. The recruitment of persons with disabilities led to some particularly interesting and new insights in this study looking at trustworthiness in the design of autonomous systems with evolving functionality.

This chapter advances goals 3 and 5 by covering the unique health issues and vulnerabilities of women.

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 5 and 11 by discussing the gender disparity concerning publication and impact of papers focussed on aquatic resources and fisheries.

This chapter advances goals 3 and 5 by covering the unique health issues and vulnerabilities of women.

This content advances goals 5 and 10 by covering the risk factors, consquences, treatments, and optimal support and resources for victims of intimate partner violence.

This chapter advances Goals 5 and 10 by addressing ways we can support the needs of female hand surgeons.

This content aligns with Goal 5: Gender Equality and Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure by providing an overview of the challenges and opportunities associated with Big Data in healthcare, from a sex and gender perspective.

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 3 and 5 by providing an overview of common fungal infections of the mammary gland, which have consequences for mothers and babies.

This chapters advances goals 5, 8, and 9 by covering the largely unpaid workload of women, especially rural women, which increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This article advances goals 4, 5, and 10 by examining disparities in minority participation in surgical oncology clinical trials.

This article advances SDG goals 3, 5 and 10 by examining disparities in lung cancer treatment and survival rate by race, gender, sexual identitity, and disability status with the goal of understanding the current situation to improve future outcomes.

This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting sex and gender inequality in precision medicine and the socioeconomic determinants of health.

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health as well as Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by bringing to light research on HPV and breast cancer in women.

This review article advances goals 3, 5, and 10 by addressing inequity in care among pregnant women with asthma in underserved communities and examining potential interventions that may help improve health outcomes and standard of care.

This chapter advances Goals 5 and 10 by discussing the role physicians can play in improving clinical trial enrollment and retention among underrepresented groups.

This content advances goals 4, 5 and 10 by highlighting diversity, equity and inclusion for women in the world of hand surgery.