The gender gap: new challenges in women's health

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
G SARTO
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
New Challenges

scholarly journals Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women’s health, but few women get to invent

Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 372 (6548) ◽  
pp. 1345-1348
Author(s):  
Rembrand Koning ◽  
Sampsa Samila ◽  
John-Paul Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Research Areas

Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect what is invented. Using text analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents filed from 1976 through 2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than all-male teams to focus on women’s health. This effect holds over decades and across research areas. We also found that female researchers are more likely to discover female-focused ideas. These findings suggest that the inventor gender gap is partially responsible for thousands of missing female-focused inventions since 1976. More generally, our findings suggest that who benefits from innovation depends on who gets to invent.

scholarly journals Self-silencing and women’s health: A review

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sucharita Maji ◽  
Shikha Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Comprehensive Picture ◽  
Research Findings

The connection between gender and health has intrigued health professionals in the last few decades. Silencing-the-self theory has brought a considerable clarity in this matter. After around three decades of the theory, the literature related to the theory has immensely flourished and has covered different branches of psychology. The aim of the present work is to provide a comprehensive picture of the qualitative and quantitative research findings that have connected self-silencing to health and well-being of women. This article presents a critical review of relevant articles. These articles have used the self-silencing theory as an explanation of women’s higher vulnerability to certain diseases as well as their experience with them. Self-silencing has been found to explain the gender gap in psychiatric disorders like depression, eating disorders and so on. It also influences the resilience and therapeutic effects among female patients with chronic conditions such as cancer, AIDS and so on. Moreover, self-silencing has also been found to be associated with women’s health issues such as pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder. The present study discusses the existing literature in a narrative manner along with suggesting some relevant research gaps that can be worth exploring in the future.

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