Demystifying Labour Structures & Labour Rights: Biennial Lecture, Centre for Labour Studies, Asiatic Society of Mumbai https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qn4ca04FWf8muJcGhGq_4D8JsKG_IfO-/view?usp=sharing Keynote Address: Quest for Dignity: Women, Work and Mobility in Rural India, Organised ...
It consists of case studies of Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda, as well as, a review of studies undertaken over the past ten years on education in Africa with particular attention to girls' and secondary education. Gender equity at the primary level has been the focus of considerable attention ...
Here we argue for the need to incorporate the gender perspective in nutritional genomics studies, present the general context, analyze the differences between sex and gender, as well as the limitations to measuring them and to detecting specific sex-gene or sex-phenotype associations, both at the...
In human studies, both sex (biological) and gender (environment and experience) are used [7]. Understanding the impossibility of segregating sex and gender aspects of many human traits, the term sex/gender was introduced as “persons/identities and/or aspects of women, men, and people that ...
Thus, compared to other studies on gender differences in access to credit market that usually only explore Beckerian or/and statistical discrimination as possible causes of gender gaps (Alesina et al., 2013; Bellucci et al., 2010; Muravyev et al., 2009), we go a step further in an ...
showed in a mouse model that the interaction between weight gain and sex alters the progression of allergic asthma: females develop airway remodeling at an earlier stage in respect to males [56]. In female most studies report lung eosinophil infiltrates, higher serum IgE pr...
studies rely on bulk RNA-seq technology, limiting the characterization of cell type-specific SG differences in a complex organ such as the brain. Therefore, studies are needed to fully understand the nature and extent of sex differences at a single-cell level. Despite many recent studies have ...
Haslanger, S. (2016) “What is a (Social) Structural Explanation?” Philosophical Studies. 173(1):113—130. Haslanger, S. (2012) “Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?” In Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, ed. S. Haslanger, 221...
Studies found gender differences in patterning of body fat, the fat levels at which health risks become apparent, levels of resting energy expenditure and energy requirements, ability to engage in certain physical activities, and the consequences of obesity for the female reproductive system. Cultural...
Some studies have demonstrated persistency and even an increase in social inequalities in mortality among the population aged 60 years or older. This suggests that unequal living conditions continue to influence health in later life, and that the patterns and levels of mortality ...