Health inequality: “Women’s health ambassador” will help deliver strategy to close gender gap in England

Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect what is invented. Using text analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents filed from 1976 through 2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than all-male teams to focus on women’s health. This effect holds over decades and across research areas. We also found that female researchers are more likely to discover female-focused ideas. These findings suggest that the inventor gender gap is partially responsible for thousands of missing female-focused inventions since 1976. More generally, our findings suggest that who benefits from innovation depends on who gets to invent.

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Self-silencing and women’s health: A review

International Journal of Social Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/0020764018814271 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 3-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Sucharita Maji ◽

Shikha Dixit

Keyword(s):

Women’S Health ◽

Women's Health ◽

Gender Gap ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Well Being ◽

The Self ◽

Therapeutic Effects ◽

Health Issues ◽

Comprehensive Picture ◽

Research Findings

The connection between gender and health has intrigued health professionals in the last few decades. Silencing-the-self theory has brought a considerable clarity in this matter. After around three decades of the theory, the literature related to the theory has immensely flourished and has covered different branches of psychology. The aim of the present work is to provide a comprehensive picture of the qualitative and quantitative research findings that have connected self-silencing to health and well-being of women. This article presents a critical review of relevant articles. These articles have used the self-silencing theory as an explanation of women’s higher vulnerability to certain diseases as well as their experience with them. Self-silencing has been found to explain the gender gap in psychiatric disorders like depression, eating disorders and so on. It also influences the resilience and therapeutic effects among female patients with chronic conditions such as cancer, AIDS and so on. Moreover, self-silencing has also been found to be associated with women’s health issues such as pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder. The present study discusses the existing literature in a narrative manner along with suggesting some relevant research gaps that can be worth exploring in the future.

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Improving Rural Women’s Health in China: Cooking With Clean Energy

10.21203/rs.3.rs-557943/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Na Li ◽

Guanglai Zhang ◽

Liguo Zhang ◽

Yingheng Zhou ◽

Ning Zhang

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Women’S Health ◽

Women's Health ◽

Health Effects ◽

Health Inequality ◽

Rural Women ◽

Energy Use ◽

Clean Energy ◽

Energy Applications ◽

The Impact

Abstract It is well known that women bear the greatest burden of health, time and labor supply due to gender disparity in many developing countries. In this study, we analyze the health inequality in rural China caused by indoor air pollution from traditional energy use. Specifically, we study the effect of clean energy access on woman health outcome by exploiting a nationwide rollout of clean cooking fuel program in 2014. Based on interviews with rural women in 2014 and 2016, this study analyzes the impact of clean energy use on women's health by using the Propensity Score Matching method with the Difference-in-Differences model (PSM-DID). We also analyze the heterogeneous health effects of clean energy uptake on rural women with different characteristics. The results show that clean energy applications can significantly improve the health of rural women. The positive health effects are substantial for middle-aged and older women, illiterate women and those women lived in northeastern China. The results highlight the role of clean energy in reducing gender disparities in health inequality. Therefore, the government in developing countries should do more to educate the people on the uses of clean energy and its benefits for women's health, provide technical and economic support for clean energy applications, and optimize clean energy promotion strategies.

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