Past and Current Status of Women Police in the Western Hemisphere

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Venessa Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Women Police ◽  
Status Of Women

Country Rankings of Women's Status: An Alternative Index

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (4III) ◽  
pp. 1025-1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Mohiuddln
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Implicit Assumption ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Country Rankings ◽  
Population Crisis ◽  
Status Of Women

The purpose of the present paper is to formulate a composite index of the status of women and to rank both developed and developing countries on the basis of that index. This index is presented as an alternative or complement to the current status of women index, published by the Population Crisis Committee (PCC) and used by the World Bank and the United Nations, which focuses on indicators measuring health, education, employment, marriage and childbearing, and social equality. The paper argues that these indicators have a poverty-bias and measure women's status in terms of structural change rather than in terms of their welfare vis-ii-vis men. The PCC index is also based on the implicit assumption that women's status in developing countries ought to be defined in a similar way as in developed countries, thus including primarily only those indicators which are more relevant for developed countries. To remedy these defects, the paper presents an alternative composite index, hereafter labelled the Alternative Composite (AC) index, based on many more indicators reflecting women's issues in both developed and developing countries. The results of the statistical analysis show that the ranking of countries based on the AC index is significantly different from the PCC index.

scholarly journals Women in aviation: The first 100 years

Tehnika ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 375-378
Author(s):  
Olja Čokorilo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Aviation Safety ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Status Of Women

Although one of the youngest transport modes and transportation industries, air transport has, since its pioneering period, attracted public attention, in terms of new technologies and aviation safety. With the development of these two segments, new occupations were developed in which women were traditionally less represented. The purpose of this research is to highlight the current status of women in the air transport sector, as well as the possibilities to realize the basic principles of gender equality in the future, especially in the air transport sector in the Republic of Serbia.

Does double-blind peer review impact gender authorship trends? An evaluation of two leading neurosurgical journals from 2010 to 2019

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Uma V. Mahajan ◽  
Harsh Wadhwa ◽  
Parastou Fatemi ◽  
Samantha Xu ◽  
Judy Shan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Board Certification ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Blind Review ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Single Blind ◽  
Single Versus ◽  
Status Of Women

OBJECTIVEPublications are key for advancement within academia. Although women are underrepresented in academic neurosurgery, the rates of women entering residency, achieving board certification, and publishing papers are increasing. The goal of this study was to assess the current status of women in academic neurosurgery publications. Specifically, this study sought to 1) survey female authorship rates in the Journal of Neurosurgery (JNS [not including JNS: Spine or JNS: Pediatrics]) and Neurosurgery from 2010 to 2019; 2) analyze whether double-blind peer review (started in Neurosurgery in 2011) altered female authorship rates relative to single-blind review (JNS); and 3) evaluate how female authorship rates compared with the number of women entering neurosurgery residency and obtaining neurosurgery board certification.METHODSGenders of the first and last authors for JNS and Neurosurgery articles from 2010 to 2019 were obtained. Data were also gathered on the number and percentage of women entering neurosurgery residency and women obtaining American Board of Neurological Surgeons (ABNS) certification between 2010 and 2019.RESULTSWomen accounted for 13.4% (n = 570) of first authors and 6.8% (n = 240) of last authors in JNS and Neurosurgery publications. No difference in rates of women publishing existed between the two journals (first authors: 13.0% JNS vs 13.9% Neurosurgery, p = 0.29; last authors: 7.3% JNS vs 6.0% Neurosurgery, p = 0.25). No difference existed between women first or last authors in Neurosurgery before and after initiation of double-blind review (p = 0.066). Significant concordance existed between the gender of first and last authors: in publications with a woman last author, the odds of the first author being a woman was increased by twofold (OR 2.14 [95% CI 1.43–3.13], p = 0.0001). Women represented a lower proportion of authors of invited papers (8.6% of first authors and 3.1% of last authors were women) compared with noninvited papers (14.1% of first authors and 7.4% of last authors were women) (first authors: OR 0.576 [95% CI 0.410–0.794], p = 0.0004; last authors: OR 0.407 [95% CI 0.198–0.751], p = 0.001). The proportion of women US last authors (7.4%) mirrors the percentage of board-certified women neurosurgeons (5.4% in 2010 and 6.8% in 2019), while the percentage of women US first authors (14.3%) is less than that for women entering neurosurgical residency (11.2% in 2009 and 23.6% in 2018).CONCLUSIONSThis is the first report of female authorship in the neurosurgical literature. The authors found that single- versus double-blind peer review did not impact female authorship rates at two top neurosurgical journals.

The Current Status of Women in Psychiatry in Europe

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S54-S54
Author(s):  
S. Frangou
Keyword(s):  
Academic Psychiatry ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Internal Barriers ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Academic Positions

For more than two decades, psychiatry has retained its position amongst the medical specialties with the highest proportion of women entering residency programs. The percentage of women in junior academic positions in psychiatry is also high and consistently higher than that of men. However, the number of women in positions of leadership remains disproportionally low at around 5% with no evidence of improvement over time. The phenomenon of female under-representation is not unique to psychiatry or academia. Women are under-represented in all fields of leadership and this is a matter of wider societal concern. In this presentation, I will discuss external and internal barriers that women face and detail positive actions that can help women succeed in their careers.Disclosure of interestThe author has edited and co-authored a book on “Women in Academic Psychiatry: A mind to Succeed”

scholarly journals The current status of women in physics in Tanzania

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najat K. Mohammed ◽  
Brenda Kazmili
Keyword(s):  
Current Status ◽  
Status Of Women
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