Are men and women legislators equally loyal to their parties? We theorize that parties select candidates based on gendered criteria, leading the (s)election of more disciplined women. Moreover, we argue expectations about proper behavior limit legislators’ ability act independently from parties. Using surveys over 800 parliamentarians across 17 African legislatures, find report significantly hi...

We present three case studies of organizations using a data science competition to answer a pressing question. The first is in education where a nonprofit that creates smart school budgets wanted to automatically tag budget line items. The second is in public health, where a low-cost, nonprofit womens’ health care provider wanted to understand the effect of demographic and behavioral questions ...

Uterine artery embolization can be regarded as a less invasive procedure for the treatment of fibroids compared with myomectomy, hysterectomy, and laparoscopic myolysis. The aim of this study was the evaluation of safety and efficacy of uterine artery embolization and of womens' opinion about this treatment. After gynecological examination sixty-nine premenopausal women underwent uterine artery...

Three hundred and fifty women complaining of breast pain symptoms of sufficient severity to interfere with their normal lifestyle were reviewed in a special breast pain clinic over a 5 year period. Seventy-two patients (21%) had spontaneous resolution of breast pain and they required reassurance only before discharge. Of the remaining 278 patients, accurate classification of breast pain syndrom...

Dr Boyle is the director of ViralEd LLC, Stockton, NJ, vice-chair of the International Center for Equal Dr Cohen Healthcare Access, and medical editor of HIVandHepatitis.com. is research director, Community Research Initiative of New England, Springfield, Mass, and clinical instructor, Harvard Dr DeJesus Medical School, Boston. is the medical director of the Orlando Immunology Center and the Dr...

Until very recently, researchers paid little attention to sex or gender issues in HIV/AIDS. When differences between females and males on health matters were considered at all the focus was clearly on womens' reproductive lives and not on factors affecting the spread of the disease. There was hardly any consideration of the influence of inequalities on the spread of HIV/AIDS and on outcomes of ...