Severe COVID-19 infection in a 32 weeks pregnant woman successfully treated with convalescent plasma therapy

From the beginning of corona virus disease 19(COVID-19) pandemic, there has been concern how to protect vulnerable group like pregnant women from severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2(SARS-CoV-2). Historically, pregnant women experiences increased mortality during any pandemic situation. Pregnant women show almost the similar clinical features as that of non-pregnant adults with COVID-19 infection. Different systematic reviews have begun to focus light on pregnancy outcomes in COVID-19 patients, but knowledge is very limited and still the basis is case series and individual experiences. Apart from the scientifically proven therapeutic options used in COVID-19 such as steroid, low molecular weight heparin, the role of convalescent plasma therapy (CPT) has never been evaluated. We present a case of a pregnant woman of 32 weeks of conception, treated with CPT with favourable outcome in a private hospital of Dhaka, Bangladesh. BSMMU J 2021; 14 (COVID -19 Supplement): 64-66

Cyber Crimes and Cyber Laws : A Perspective of Women Victimization

Women from all the parts of society are facing cybercrime against them. Being a victim of cyber crime, women experiences several psychological impact which deeply effects their life. Sometimes they even commit suicide. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has reported increased rate of cyber crime against women in the last few years. Cyber crime against women takes place in the form of cyber defamation, sexual harassment and abuse, email-misrepresentation and so forth . Cyber crime itself is traumatic for women to deal with and on the other side the challenges that are encountered by a women to proceed for a legal action against the culprit is also matter of concern for them. This research paper is an attempt to discuss upon the various types of cybercrimes that are inflicted upon women in India. It is also brief analysis of the legal rights of women to protect against cyber crime, its application and challenges that are experienced by women to get those rights.

Imported feminism: problematizing the Westernized image of the feminist in Arab social media

Purpose This paper aims to analyze the discourse of Arab feminism social media pages as a form of real-time new media. This is to be conducted culturally to understand the Westernized character these pages tend to propagate and the politico-cultural significations of such a propagation. Design/methodology/approach Using visual and content analysis the paper analyzes both the written and visual contents of two popular Arab feminist Facebook pages, “Thory” and “Feminist doodles” to explore its culture relevance/Westernization via the categories of “re-employing the binary second wave feminism, the historical relevance and the Westernized tone of both pages. Findings The pages showed a tendency toward second wave, Westernized, anti-orient feminism. Such importation of feminism made the pages’ message not only a bit irrelevant but also conceptually violent to a large extent. Starting from alien contexts, the two pages dislocate the Arab women experiences of their situation for the sake of comprehending and adapting to heavily Westernized images. Originality/value The paper contributes to the ongoing debate over the gender issue in the Arab context after 2011, what it originally offers is discussing the cultural relevance of popular feminist Facebook pages claiming to represent the everyday struggles of the Arab women. In addition, it shows the impact of real-time media on identity formulation.

Broader driver of disrespectful maternity care: power dynamics

Understanding the dynamics under which women experiences birth and disrespectful care is important. It recognizes the relegation women experiences within a subjugated relationship between women and health care practitioners arising from power disparities. When power dynamics are acknowledged and everyone’s expertise respected, women have positive and healthy childbirth with respect to human’s fundamental right. This is the kind of care women want and need.

Perceptions of students about Problems in Computing Higher Education

Female students face various problems in the undergraduate computer science environment. In this paper we investigate undergraduate computer science students' perceptions of discrimination, harassment, drop out intention, gender devaluation, sense of belonging, gender stereotype, and self-efficacy. It also collects information about unpleasant facts that happened to students. A questionnaire was applied to two hundred and fifty students from undergraduate computer science courses from more than twenty universities in Brazil. Data from the questionnaire were analyzed using statistical methods. A comparison between men and women experiences is provided. In addition, we examine correlations between issues reported by the female students and their intentions to leave university. The results show that the majority of students in both sexes have a low sense of belonging and also that men bear some of the problems. Nevertheless, women suffer more from discrimination and gender stereotype than men.

Online versus Offline World: A Thematic Analysis of Arab Women’s Empowerment via Social Media

This research study examines Arab women experiences of being empowered by existing in the virtual world. The aim of the study is to establish paper that discuses if female users of Twitter in Arab countries believe that the religious and cultural restrictions of Arabs state institutions are circumvented by the Internet. The study is questioning the Arab female experiences and feelings if and when she bypasses the restrictions, that she is associate with as being Arab, to make herself existing online and how does this reflect on her in the real world. The investigation is carried out by conducting semi-structured interviews, targeting to collect qualitative data only. To achieve the aims of the study, the sample consists of seven females from different countries who all use Twitter. The study showed that there is a gap between the action of Arab women online and offline which is due to prompting of social and political empowerment. Keywords: Arab women, empowerment, media, virtual world

Mothering in the Context of Violence: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Mothers’ Experiences in Regional Settings in Australia

Domestic and family violence (DFV) disproportionately affects women and children in Australia and globally. On average, one in three women experiences DFV during adulthood and the majority of these women identify as mothers. The prevalence of DFV is higher for Indigenous women and their experiences disproportionately range at the more severe end of physical abuse. For women affected by DFV, mothering during and post this type of victimization is complicated by strategic entrapment, undermining of the mother–child relationship, and threats of harm directed at children and mothers. While a substantial body of literature has examined the experiences of mothers affected by DFV more broadly, research on the experiences of Indigenous mothers affected by DFV remains scarce. Research evidence is further limited when trying to understand the specific constraints experienced by mothers affected by DFV in regional settings. This article examines the experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers affected by DFV in regional Queensland, Australia. Data derived from 17 qualitative face-to-face interviews are used to explore the lived experiences of these mothers. Findings identify the immediate and long-term effects of DFV on mothers and children, including similarities and differences in women’s experiences of mothering in the context of DFV, experiences of entrapment in an abusive relationship, experiences of post-separation abuse, strategies used to mitigate its impact on children, and surviving as a female-headed single-parent household in regional settings. While mothers in this study shared a number of similar experiences, regionality, the risk of cultural disconnectedness, and socio-structural marginalization disproportionately affected Indigenous mothers in this study. Findings raise key implications for supporting mothers and children’s safety and recovery, access to safe and sustainable housing in regional towns, and the empowerment of Indigenous women to overcome the lasting effects of colonization and disproportionate experiences of disadvantage.

ASSESSMENT OF BREAST CANCER INCIDENCE IN PATIENTS WITH MASTALGIA AND ROUTINE SCREENING

About 70% of the women experiences breast pain once in their life time1. Mastalgia is described as tension, discomfort, and ache in breast1. The prevalence of cancer in patients manifesting with breast pain is reported to be 0.3-2% 2. As breast cancer awareness increases, the concern that breast pain may indicate malignancy contributes to the tendency of breast pain to be the most common breast symptom and leads to a woman consulting a breast surgeon3. Breast pain is categorized broadly in to two types; cyclical and non-cyclical breast pain. Cyclical mastalgia is a unilateral or bilateral pattern of pain or tenderness, frequently associated with swelling that reduces with the menstrual cycle. Noncyclic mastalgia tends to be unilateral and is more local than cyclical breast pain. The location of the pain can usually be localized. Typically, most women who had non cyclic mastalgia are in the fourth or fifth decade of life at the time of diagnosis.

“The Perfect Storm”: The Rise of Gender-Based Violence in the Age of COVID-19

One in three women experiences sexual or physical violence at some point in their life (“A Staggering One-in-Three Women”, 2019). In the last 12 months alone, 243 million girls between the ages of 15 and 49 were subjected to sexual or physical violence by an intimate partner (“Violence against Women”, n.d.). During the COVID-19 pandemic, sudden shifts in routine have made this situation a “ticking time bomb” for the exponential growth in rates of crimes against women (Campbell, 2020).