Restrictive gender norms and gender inequalities are replicated and reinforced in health
systems, contributing to gender inequalities in health. In this Series paper, we explore how …

The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious challenge for societies around the globe as entire
populations have fallen victim to the infectious spread and have taken up social distancing …

Importance Women are less likely to be promoted and hold leadership positions in
academic medicine. How often academic articles are cited is a key measure of scholarly …

Governments worldwide have implemented school closures as a preventive measure to the
spread of COVID-19. According to UNESCO, school closures have sent about 90% of all …

We estimated the percentage of women as authors overall as well as in first and/or last
authorship positions and tested whether these percentages were significantly different from …

Background The present study aims to elucidate the state of gender equality in high-quality
research by analyzing the representation of female authorships in the last decade (from …

The increased interest in analyzing and explaining gender inequalities in tech, media, and
academia highlights the need for accurate inference methods to predict a person's gender …

Objective: To evaluate the performance of gender detection tools that allow the uploading of
files (eg, Excel or CSV files) containing first names, are usable by researchers without …

Background Clinical and preclinical studies have shown that there are sex-based
differences at the genetic, cellular, biochemical, and physiological levels. Despite this …

Importance Women remain underrepresented among editors of scientific journals,
particularly in senior positions. However, to what extent this applies to medical journals of …