Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Monica S. S. Chung, Sang Jun Han
Summary: Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent inflammatory disease in reproductive-aged women. The exact cause is unknown, making diagnosis and treatment challenging. Angiogenesis, among other molecular mechanisms, plays a crucial role in the progression of endometriosis. This mini-review discusses the molecular etiology of endometriosis-associated angiogenesis and explores anti-angiogenic therapy as a potential non-hormonal treatment for endometriosis.
FRONTIERS IN GLOBAL WOMENS HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Social Issues
Jeff Hearn, Sofia Strid, Anne Laure Humbert, Dag Balkmar, Marine Delaunay
Summary: The article examines the impact of violence as a central issue on gender regimes and violence regimes, and proposes violence regimes as a feasible research approach. Its aim is to deepen understanding of gender relations and policy analysis.
Article
Management
Rita Goyal, Nada Kakabadse, Andrew Kakabadse, Danielle Talbot
Summary: Despite efforts to promote gender diversity on boards, women are still underrepresented in board leadership in the UK, especially beyond FTSE 100 companies. This study presents the firsthand experiences of gender discrimination suffered by female directors and explores the process of building resilience through coping strategies. The resilience-building processes vary with the length of board experience.
GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION
(2023)
Article
Management
Dorothea Bowyer, Milissa Deitz, Anne Jamison, Chloe E. Taylor, Erika Gyengesi, Jaime Ross, Hollie Hammond, Anita Eseosa Ogbeide, Tinashe Dune
Summary: This paper uses auto-ethnographic narratives to explore the impact of COVID-19 on academic mothers' career cycles at an Australian university, aiming to explore alternative feminist models in Higher Education. The authors advocate for a re-centering of career cycle patterns and a call for enhancing institutional gender equality policies.
GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION
(2022)
Article
Social Issues
Eliane Davila Dos Santos, Alberto Albahari, Soledad Diaz, Ernani Cesar De Freitas
Summary: This study proposes a theoretical framework that integrates factors influencing women's participation in STEM with cultural, identity, and gender stereotypes, as well as evaluates the impact of the APTE project on raising awareness and encouraging girls to pursue careers in science and technology. The results suggest that targeted activities can potentially reduce the gender gap in future career choices.
JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Women's Studies
Maya I. Ragavan, Lauren Risser, Virginia Duplessis, Sarah DeGue, Andres Villaveces, Tammy P. Hurley, Judy Chang, Elizabeth Miller, Kimberly A. Randell
Summary: The study examined the challenges and experiences of IPV survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that the pandemic limited survivors' basic needs and was used as a means of control by abusers. IPV survivors faced compounding challenges due to structural inequalities.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
(2022)
Article
Women's Studies
Jennifer M. Gomez
Summary: Women and ethnic minorities are at higher risk of campus sexual violence due to inequality. The study aims to characterize the experiences of ethnic minority undergraduates in terms of CSV, cultural and institutional betrayal, and institutional support, finding that college women face higher rates of CSV and institutional betrayal, suggesting the need for a research agenda focusing on oppression in addressing CSV.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Annette Bromdal, Sherree Halliwell, Tait Sanders, Kirsty A. Clark, Jessica Gildersleeve, Amy B. Mullens, Tania M. Phillips, Joseph Debattista, Carol du Plessis, Kirstie Daken, Jaclyn M. W. Hughto
Summary: Trans women incarcerated worldwide face significant victimization, mistreatment, and human rights violations, which increase their risk of trauma and self-harm. Most prisons are segregated by sex characteristics and governed by cis and gender normative paradigms. This analysis examines the experiences of incarcerated trans women in Australia and the US to understand how they navigate their identities and relationships under these circumstances.
FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Women's Studies
Alexa R. Yakubovich, Krys Maki
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in intimate partner violence, a major cause of women's homelessness. Canada lacks a national legislative and funding framework to support coordinated prevention efforts. Starting points for developing a Canadian strategic framework include adopting inclusive definitions and evaluating a broad continuum of IPV-housing options.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
(2022)
Article
Communication
Yating Yu
Summary: This study investigates the dominant gendered discourses surrounding the "leftover" myth in English-language news media in China, and explores how the myth is legitimized and delegitimized. The findings reveal the coexistence of patriarchal and resistant discourses, with delegitimation strategies challenging the myth more frequently.
FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Management
Katri Otonkorpi-Lehtoranta, Milla Salin, Mia Hakovirta, Anniina Kaittila
Summary: The study found that during the COVID-19 lockdown, families developed highly gendered boundary practices, with mothers taking on more household and childcare responsibilities, especially in families where childcare practices had been gendered before the lockdown. These findings highlight the challenges faced by families in managing work-family boundaries during the pandemic, with different coping strategies based on their pre-lockdown work-family practices.
GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION
(2022)
Article
Women's Studies
Chinyere Elsie Ajayi, Khatidja Chantler, Lorraine Radford
Summary: Through in-depth narrative interviews with Nigerian women in England, this study explores how cultural beliefs, norms, and practices such as male privilege, religious beliefs, rape myths, and bride-price may contribute to women's experiences of sexual abuse and violence.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Catherine White Berheide, Megan A. Carpenter, David A. Cotter
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new teaching demands and highlighted existing race and gender disparities in emotional labor among faculty. A study surveyed 182 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty to examine the impact of social and professional statuses on emotional labor during the transition to remote instruction in 2020. The findings suggest that white cisgender men performed less emotional labor compared to other groups, and student demands played a mediating role.
Article
Social Work
Jessica L. Liddell, Celina M. Doria
Summary: Reproductive justice is an important framework for exploring women's reproductive health experiences. This study examines reproductive justice among members of an Indigenous state-recognized tribe in the Gulf Coast who do not utilize the Indian Health Service. The findings reveal that Indigenous women in this tribe face multiple barriers to achieving their reproductive desires.
AFFILIA-FEMINIST INQUIRY IN SOCIAL WORK
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Danting Liu, Margaret Schmitt, Azure Nowara, Cathryn Magno, Rebecca Ortiz, Marni Sommer
Summary: As menstrual product advertising evolves in the United States, it is important to understand how it influences young people's self-esteem and feelings of shame. Through a survey and focus groups, researchers analyzed advertising messages over a ten-year period and identified themes of femininity and shame, the role of men in the menstrual process, and inclusivity of racial, gender, and body types. The findings suggest that advertising that promotes inclusivity can positively impact young people's perceptions of their bodies and menstruation.
HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Communication
Cat Mahoney
Summary: This article explores the potential and limitations of Instagram as a platform for feminist activism. It analyzes Instagram accounts engaging in feminist discourse to demonstrate how the platform enables users to perform feminist politics. However, it also highlights the constraints imposed by dominant discourses and Instagram's own rules and regulations.
FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Management
Mie Plotnikof, Ea Hog Utoft
Summary: This article delves into the dark side of academic labor during the pandemic, highlighting the mixed pressures and effects brought about by toxic productivity. By exploring the similarities and differences in how individuals are affected in different home environments, the authors reveal the need for feminist resistance to address the relational issues exacerbated by toxicity in the new normal. Through caring for and acknowledging the multifaceted experiences associated with toxicity, the authors suggest a reconfiguration of embodiments and enactments to empower individuals to challenge the toxic academia and strive for happiness during and after the crisis.
GENDER WORK AND ORGANIZATION
(2022)
Article
Economics
Corinna Dengler, Miriam Lang
Summary: This paper discusses how to organize care in degrowth societies that prioritize both social and ecological sustainability, gender and environmental justice. By drawing on degrowth scholarship, feminist economics, and decolonial feminisms, the author proposes an emancipatory decommodification and commonization of care in a communitarian and transformative caring commons beyond the public/private divide.
FEMINIST ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Women's Studies
Marta Cabezas
Summary: Feminism is facing a contradiction in Spain, with the March 8 movement gaining support through feminist strikes, while the far Right is entering representative politics and opposing feminism. This article analyzes the role of gender in the rise of the nationalist far Right in Spain, arguing that gender is a primary field in this political process. The study examines how Vox mobilized gender during the national electoral campaign and in the Andalusian Parliament, highlighting the party's framing strategies and relentless antigender discourse. It concludes that the Spanish far Right is dependent on gender and antagonistic towards feminism.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Pavitra Kotini-Shah, Bernice Man, Ruth Pobee, Laura E. Hirshfield, Barbara J. Risman, Irina A. Buhimschi, Heather M. Weinreich
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has unevenly affected faculty in academic health sciences, with early and mid-career individuals experiencing increased workloads, stress, and reduced self-care. Academic leaders need to acknowledge these differences when adjusting workplace or promotion policies to be inclusive of faculty with diverse experiences.
JOURNAL OF WOMENS HEALTH
(2022)