An outpouring of anger marked March, 2021, as thousands took to the streets protest violence and discrimination against women. The contexts varied hugely across settings such Turkey, Australia, Mexico, UK, USA, but frustration was universal. Many women related fear they live with, a sense despair powerlessness at situation. And yet force these conversations provides grounds for measured optimis...

PREFACE In 1999, at the urging of our sister/colleague Barbara Faye Waxman Fiduccia, the Center for Women Policy Studies launched a new series of publications on women and girls with disabilities – beginning with two groundbreaking reports, Violence Against Disabled Women: Research and Data in Brief and Women and Girls with Disabilities: Defining the Issues – An Overview. Barbara envisioned and...

Physiological responses to hypoxia in children are incompletely understood. We aimed to characterize cerebrovascular and ventilatory responses to normobaric hypoxia in girls and women. Ten healthy girls (9.9 ± 1.7 years; mean ± SD; Tanner stage 1 and 2) and their mothers (43.9 ± 3.5 years) participated. Internal carotid (ICA) and vertebral artery (VA) velocity, diameter and flow (Duplex ultraso...

the current study aims to compare the expectations and purpose of marriage of women and girls in shiraz. in this study, 180 participants (90 women and 90 girls) were selected to participate from the available population. the instruments to collect data were questionnaires and a structured interview. the participants completed the socio-demographic characteristics form and the marital attitude a...