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Beyond Policy: The Odyssey of Implementing GEPs in European Academia | Article | Social Inclusion

Evanthia Kalpazidou Schmidt and Anna Vigsø Pedersen, Social Inclusion 2025

This article investigates the design and implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) across nine European universities within a university alliance, emphasising the importance of context‐specific interventions. It explores the diversity in GEPs’ content, structure, and implementation, as well as the organisation of gender equality work, revealing how national policies, institutional priorities, and socio‐cultural contexts shape these processes. Key challenges include gendered academic cultures, internal resistance, structural and organisational barriers, resource limitations, national commitment disparities, and deeply ingrained societal norms affecting gender equality.

Gender Dimension in Research: Bridging Gender and Science

S Donoso - 2025

The European Commission (EC) has become a global leader in setting policy for
integrating the gender dimension into research and innovation (R&I) content. It is a
priority for ERA and, for Horizon Europe, an award criterion that becomes a …

Toward Sex-Specific Biomaterials Innovation: A Perspective

GL Koons - ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2025

Sex-related differences influence key biological processes relevant to biomaterials
research, including tissue regeneration, immune response, drug metabolism, and
relevant diseases. Despite increasing recognition of sex as a critical biological …

Beyond bikini medicine: An analysis of Sex-and Gender-Informed Medicine in a preclinical undergraduate medical education.

K Wasden, Z Kibbelaar, CS Royce, NR Johnson… - MedEdPublish, 2025

Introduction Despite the expanding literature demonstrating widespread sex and
gender differences across all organ systems, the inclusion of Sex- and Gender-Informed
Medicine (SGIM) in medical education is lacking, leaving medical students without …

A pink lie in French medicine

J Ferry-Danini

This paper sets to explain how one of the most prescribed and sold pharmaceutical
drugs in France–Spasfon (phloroglucinol), introduced on the French market in the
1960s, became and remained so successful in the absence of solid scientific …

Reducing Gender Bias in a Dutch Language Model through Counterfactual Data Substitution

A Nastas

Large Language Models (LLMs) are used for many different tasks, including writing
assistance, customer service automation, and search engine enhancement.
However, one problem is that they often show and amplify social biases embedded …

Facilitating gendered and socially inclusive energy transitions in sub-Saharan Africa

JK Musango, AFF Chicombo - Energy Research & Social Science, 2025

Addressing the challenges of energy transition requires a meaningful integration of
gender and social inclusion dimensions into energy frameworks. Despite a long
history of efforts towards gender mainstreaming, energy frameworks often neglect …

Barriers and facilitators to the uptake of the Ischaemia with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries (INOCA) recommendation by cardiologists in the Netherlands

L Modderkolk, I Göttgens, L van den Hurk… - International Journal of …, 2025

Abstract Background Ischemia with No Obstructive Arteries (INOCA) is a condition
characterized by an elusive diagnosis and a significant impact on patients' quality of
life. Recent evidence challenges previous assumptions about INOCA's benign …

Sex and gender differences in periodontal disease: a cross-sectional study in Switzerland

L Liechti, V Regitz-Zagrosek, P Gebert, PR Schmidlin… - BMC Oral Health, 2025

The role of sex- and gender-related traits has often been downplayed in clinical
studies and periodontal disease is no exception. Sex and gender represent distinct
biological and sociocultural factors that may independently influence periodontal …

Leaving Academia: Dual-Career Relationships and Partners' Attrition from Academic Careers

JA Fisher, Y Tao, M Waltz, T Monahan - Women's Health Reports, 2025

Background: More than one third of academics are coupled with another academic,
with more women being in such dual-career relationships. Little is known about how
these couples’ experiences affect their attrition from or persistence in academia …

Diversity and inclusivity in oncology: A narrative review and orientation for institutional measures in Germany

H Dapper, S Oertelt-Prigione, G Stadler, N Weishaupt… - Translational Oncology, 2025

Background A holistic medical approach considers biological, psychological, and
social factors affecting health. Diversity—the heterogeneity of patients and providers—
is increasingly recognized in medical research and practice [1, 2]. However,“diversity …

Bridging the Gap: Deep Learning for Equitable Skin Disease Diagnosis Across Diverse Skin Tones

AU Kabir, TI Bhuiyan, V Dhrubo, T Islam, MA Morshed… - International Conference on …, 2025

The accurate and timely diagnosis of skin diseases is crucial for effective treatment
and improved patient outcomes. However, disparities in diagnostic accuracy across
skin tones have been noted and identified, particularly affecting people with darker …

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Ignorance Unmasked: Essays in the New Science of Agnotology

RN Proctor, L Schiebinger - 2025

… In this volume, Londa Schiebinger and and Robert Proctor explore how enlarging
reproductive liberty could help mitigate climate change and why climate modelers
have overlooked this. Millions of women give birth as a result of child marriage and …

Impact of Marriage on Productivity and Career of Women Scholars

S Tang, X Deng, J Hou, CR Sugimoto

Marriage has potential impact on scholarship, especially for women, but lack of
appropriate data has prevented its clear assessment. In this article we quantify the
impact of marriage on women’s scholarship using open data from ORCID (23057 …