Gender inequalities among authors who contributed equally

Gender inequalities in health among older Brazilian adults.

OBJECTIVE To investigate gender differences among older Brazilians in their health status and their use of health services. METHODS Participants were individuals aged 60 years and older included in a national household survey conducted in Brazil in 1998. Data were analyzed by multiple logistic regression, taking into account the design effect due to multistage sampling. RESULTS There were d...

Gender Inequalities in Education

The terrain of gender inequalities in education has seen much change in recent decades. This article reviews the empirical research and theoretical perspectives on gender inequalities in educational performance and attainment from early childhood to young adulthood. Much of the literature on children and adolescents attends to performance differences between girls and boys. Of course, achieveme...

Gender Inequalities in Health

Education, Empowerment and Gender Inequalities

This paper considers a seeming disconnect between the consensus in policy circles that reducing gender inequalities is to be prioritized in strategies for reducing inequality and poverty, and a view in mainstream economics (and in some policy circles) that gender inequalities are overemphasized. This latter view is not stated openly, it being politically incorrect to do so, but is nevertheless ...

Cell-lineage and clonal-contribution map of the trochophore larva of Patella vulgata (Mollusca)1Both authors contributed equally to this work.1

Molluscan development is characterised by its extremely regular cleavage pattern. In numerous molluscs the fate of various early-cleavage stage blastomeres has been determined and fate maps have been constructed. On the basis of similarities between these fate maps, a generalised molluscan cell-lineage map has been constructed. Recently, the validity of this map has been challenged. In this stu...