In many Western countries, the lack of women in the field of science and technology is seen as a problem from a feminist perspective in concern with equal opportunity. As a developed and democratic country, especially in the perspective of gender equality, Denmark witnesses an uneven gender distribution in the engineering profession – women’s participation is 12%. As a joint member of an EU pro...

Using data from the first wave of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) for 2867 women and 2195 men aged 40 to 79, this study examines to what extent educational, employment and marital pathways shape the likelihood of remaining childless, and whether these pathways are gendered. The findings indicate that women and men have distinctive pathways into childlessness. Educational attainment i...

BACKGROUND Smoking-cessation treatment policies could yield substantial increases in adult quit rates in the U.S. PURPOSE The goals of this paper are to model the effects of individual cessation treatment policies on population quit rates, and to illustrate the potential benefits of combining policies to leverage their synergistic effects. METHODS A mathematical model is updated to examine ...

AIMS To compare abrupt and gradual smoking cessation. DESIGN AND SETTING Randomized trial and observational study, Internet, 2007-2010. PARTICIPANTS Smokers with no strong preference for abrupt or gradual quitting were randomly assigned to quitting immediately (n=472), or to gradually reducing their cigarette consumption over 2 weeks and then quit (n=502). Smokers who strongly preferred to ...