Gender Issues in Life Science

Gender and Commercial Science: Women’s Patenting in the Life Sciences

Traditional research on gender differences in productivity focuses on academic scientists, and rarely investigates outcomes other than publications. We investigate gender disparities in commercial outcomes, for scientists in both the academic and industrial sectors. Using a unique combination of career history data and patenting information across a period of two decades, we present descriptive...

Implementing Gender Issues in ICT

The rapid technological changes caused by ICT have a strong impact on global societies. This will lead to changes in the traditional role patterns. In this paper we focus on an academic master course to create gender awareness in ICT development with a special emphasis on developing countries. First we analyze the impact of ICT on society, and derive requirements from society on the introductio...

Gender Issues in Health Sector

Gender wise analysis of data brings out biological, behavioural and social variables which indicate inequality in the health parameters in male and female sex. There is discrimination against women. Right to birth is denied by sex selective elimination, right to survival is denied by the neglect of girl child resulting in declining trend of child sex ratio which has reached an alarming low leve...

on gender issues in Ghana

Gender issues in agricultural liberalisation

The authors gratefully acknowledge support for the preparation of this report from the Directorate General for Development (DGVIII) of the European Commission. However, the views expressed and any errors or omissions are those of the authors and not of DGVIII.