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  • Open Access
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11 July 2025

Background: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) encompasses a range of conditions that can profoundly impact quality of life and intimate relationships. The primary classifications of FSD include female sexual interest and arousal disorder (FSIAD), genit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,269 Views
13 Pages

PrEP Use Awareness and Interest Cascade among MSM and Transgender Women Living in Bali, Indonesia

  • Rissa Cempaka,
  • Brigitta Wardhani,
  • Anak Agung Sagung Sawitri,
  • Pande Putu Januraga and
  • Benjamin Bavinton

Indonesia has not implemented HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) despite global calls for its scale-up, and there is limited information about attitudes towards PrEP among its potential users. We aim to present a PrEP cascade among men who have sex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,450 Views
12 Pages

28 June 2023

An important factor in vocational choice is whether to pursue a career in the public sector or the private sector. The perception of each sector impacts career choice, attracting individuals with certain traits. This perception-based attraction is im...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,907 Views
6 Pages

18 December 2016

This commentary discusses the evolving dynamics and the intergenerational “rifts” that often arise in gender and women’s studies classes. The first section outlines the rise of women’s studies programs in the 1970s and the “women-centered” approach m...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
22,314 Views
9 Pages

Financial Literacy and Gender Differences: Women Choose People While Men Choose Things?

  • Sigurdur Gudjonsson,
  • Inga Minelgaite,
  • Kari Kristinsson and
  • Sigrún Pálsdóttir

28 November 2022

According to gender personality traits, women are more interested in people, whereas men are more interested in things. The goal of this research is to see if there is a gender gap in financial literacy and if these disparities can be explained by di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9,631 Views
17 Pages

14 February 2023

This article focuses on sexual violence and the learned fear of rape experienced by women in their use of public space, understood as social constructions of a system of domination. We analyze a series of data, drawn from secondary sources, on the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,104 Views
28 Pages

30 April 2022

Despite the growing demand for more engineers associated with the profession’s relevance in addressing the world’s most challenging sustainability problems, more young girls are choosing other career paths with similar relevance such as h...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,969 Views
11 Pages

26 January 2018

Since the majority of top-level researchers are men, how does this vertical gender-segregation affect students’ perceptions of a research career? In the current study, an experimental manipulation either reminded students of academia’s current domina...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,423 Views
19 Pages

A Narrative Review of Quercetin’s Role as a Bioactive Compound in Female Reproductive Disorders

  • Yasaman Khamineh,
  • Mahsa Ghiasvand,
  • Sanaz Panahi-Alanagh,
  • Parisa Rastegarmand,
  • Samaneh Zolghadri and
  • Agata Stanek

24 March 2025

Lifestyle, nutrition, and metabolic status are central to maintaining women’s reproductive health. With the rising prevalence of infertility, the need for effective strategies to preserve and enhance women’s reproductive well-being has be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,085 Views
19 Pages

Socio-Economic Impact of the Interest-Free Community Investment Fund: A Case Study of Rural Sindh, Pakistan

  • Pervaiz Ahmed Memon,
  • Muhammad Ramzan Kalhoro,
  • Kiran Tariq,
  • Paras Sindhu and
  • Suman Shaikh

This study aims to measure the impact of an intervention, the Community Investment Fund (CIF), on the socio-economic life of rural women. CIF is a community-managed fund aimed at improving the living standards of women by empowering them to undertake...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,662 Views
17 Pages

Beliefs and Norms Associated with the Use of Ultra-Processed Commercial Milk Formulas for Pregnant Women in Vietnam

  • Tuan T. Nguyen,
  • Jennifer Cashin,
  • Constance Ching,
  • Phillip Baker,
  • Hoang T. Tran,
  • Amy Weissman,
  • Thao T. Nguyen and
  • Roger Mathisen

19 November 2021

Commercial milk formula for pregnant women (CMF-PW) is an expensive, ultra-processed food with a high concentration of sugar, the consumption of which may be linked to negative health outcomes. However, CMF-PWs are promoted as beneficial for pregnant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
14,182 Views
23 Pages

Women’s Empowerment as an Outcome of NGO Projects: Is the Current Approach Sustainable?

  • Ghenwa Al Hakim,
  • Bettina Lynda Bastian,
  • Poh Yen Ng and
  • Bronwyn P. Wood

The area of women’s empowerment has attracted increasing attention among a wide range of interest groups, from authors to researchers to feminist scholars and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This paper aims to identify the diverse unders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
15,990 Views
17 Pages

1 January 2018

This paper draws on the results of ethnographic research on ‘women’s circles’; women-only spaces that celebrate sisterhood and the ‘feminine’, including the increasingly globally popular ‘Red Tent’. Women’s circles are non-institutionalized, often mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,536 Views
15 Pages

7 June 2025

The Death Penalty Information Center’s (DPIC) website states that, since 1608, 576 executions of women under civil authority have been carried out in the United States. The “Espy file”, cited by the DPIC, is widely considered to be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,823 Views
22 Pages

15 September 2022

On 31 May 2021, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed the policy that a couple can have three children, and rolled out more supportive measures to further optimize the fertility policies. However, whil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,046 Views
20 Pages

Barriers Faced by Women in Software Development Projects

  • Edna Dias Canedo,
  • Heloise Acco Tives,
  • Madianita Bogo Marioti,
  • Fabiano Fagundes and
  • José Antonio Siqueira de Cerqueira

9 October 2019

Computer science is a predominantly male field of study. Women face barriers while trying to insert themselves in the study of computer science. Those barriers extend to when women are exposed to the professional area of computer science. Despite dec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,203 Views
14 Pages

23 September 2019

During the Dutch winter famine of 1944–1945, an interesting observation was made about the offspring born during this time—They had an increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome and other chronic diseases. Subsequent research has con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,807 Views
17 Pages

23 September 2020

Although land forms the basis for marginal livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa, the asset is more strategic for women as they usually hold derived and dependent rights to land in customary tenure areas. Initiatives to secure women’s land tenure i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,594 Views
19 Pages

27 April 2022

Women’s involvement in tourism has exerted an immense impact on the nation’s economy. The low involvement of women in some countries has sparked the interest of scholars in investigating the factors that influence their involvement. The m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,566 Views
19 Pages

A Thoughtful Insight on Women Entrepreneur’s Investment Attitude

  • Batool Muhammad Hussain,
  • Umair Baig,
  • Vida Davidaviciene and
  • Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene

1 December 2021

This study endeavors to be cognizant of the investment paradigm of women entrepreneurs and reveal their ambitions, professionalism, and desire to form a robust framework in the context of economic development. These persistent attributes of women ent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
674 Views
14 Pages

9 August 2025

Background: The human microbiome includes trillions of microorganisms, with the vaginal microbiota playing a vital role in women’s reproductive health. Concurrently, interest in vulvovaginal esthetic procedures (VVEP) is increasing. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,413 Views
17 Pages

11 December 2022

Competitiveness of sporting contests is key to attract fan interest. However, limited research compared levels of competitiveness in men’s and women’s sports. This study focuses on the evolution of intra-match competitive balance (IMCB) and competiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,997 Views
17 Pages

Sober Curiosity: A Qualitative Study Exploring Women’s Preparedness to Reduce Alcohol by Social Class

  • Belinda Lunnay,
  • Emily Nicholls,
  • Amy Pennay,
  • Sarah MacLean,
  • Carlene Wilson,
  • Samantha B. Meyer,
  • Kristen Foley,
  • Megan Warin,
  • Ian Olver and
  • Paul R. Ward

Background: Urgent action is required to identify socially acceptable alcohol reduction options for heavy-drinking midlife Australian women. This study represents innovation in public health research to explore how current trends in popular wellness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,056 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2023

This study focuses on migrant women and their civic participation in civil society organizations and/or immigrant associations. Despite women’s migration having a long global history and being of academic interest, extensive knowledge of this s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,487 Views
25 Pages

Gender Discrimination Insights in Romanian Accounting Organisations

  • Widad Atena Faragalla,
  • Adriana Tiron-Tudor,
  • Liana Stanca and
  • Delia Deliu

The paper investigated gender inequalities in the accounting profession in the specific context of an eastern European country, in the past heavily dominated by men, but now with a substantial number of women. Thus, we used a questionnaire survey exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,001 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2023

The Grain for Green (GfG) program is an afforestation project created by the Chinese Government to protect the environment. Farmers who participate in GfG return farmland to forest. Losing arable land means losing an income source, so farmers have to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
16,020 Views
25 Pages

This research project is a historical and narrative study of cross-racial, international couplings between Black U.S. servicemen and White German women during WWII and the children who resulted from these relationships. Once pejoratively referred to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,690 Views
13 Pages

5 September 2022

This paper reports the findings from a microcredit (financial inclusion) scheme that has been operated by a non-governmental organization since 2012 in a local community in Ghana, and sustained through the COVID-19 pandemic. It first examines microfi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,897 Views
18 Pages

29 September 2024

Mentoring can positively influence the mentee, the mentor, and the organization in which both are employed. Mentoring can help employees to overcome workplace challenges, including barriers to advancement, while increasing job satisfaction, enhancing...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,147 Views
24 Pages

14 June 2024

Despite the ongoing discrimination that hinders women’s full participation in urban life, the International Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasize the eradication of violence against women and underscore the need for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,804 Views
18 Pages

2 March 2016

In this paper we briefly focus on intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) and the Australian legal response, using recent Court judgements and Heather Wishik’s feminist jurisprudence framework for inquiry to guide investigation. The key questions bei...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,374 Views
13 Pages

Women’s Autonomy and Anemia in Children under Five Years of Age: A Peruvian Population-Based Survey

  • Rosa Campos-Guerrero,
  • Xiomara Genoveva Diaz-Molina,
  • Rodrigo Vargas-Fernández and
  • Diego Azañedo

3 August 2023

To determine the association between women’s autonomy and the presence of childhood anemia in children under five years of age in Peru, a cross-sectional study utilizing data from the 2019 Demographic and Family Health Survey was carried out. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,268 Views
29 Pages

We investigated the parameters of authenticity, balance, and challenge as viewed through the lens of the Kaleidoscope Career Model to discern the career motives of women who opted out and then returned to the workforce. We also were interested in com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,276 Views
17 Pages

This article analyzes the representation of women in Chinese news reports about COVID-19 in order to examine the consequences of the pandemic on gender relations in China. It draws on the linguistic framework of appraisal theory for identifying evalu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,729 Views
20 Pages

17 July 2020

A proper name individualizes a person, the lack of it making him or her less noticeable. This insight is apt in regard to the nameless women in the Hebrew Bible, a resolutely androcentric work. As Judaism traditionally barred women from studying, man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,485 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2024

Women’s education and empowerment have engaged the interest of policymakers and academics for many years. We employ individual-level data from Ghana and Uganda in this paper to offer a comparative analysis of the impact of women’s educati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,144 Views
23 Pages

16 March 2023

The Seven Sisters Festival (also known as Qixi Festival) is especially important to Cantonese women, with differences in syncretic religious practices and beliefs between marriage resistance and nonresistance regions. Despite being forerunners in the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
16,631 Views
23 Pages

A Bibliometric Study on the Evolution of Women’s Football and Determinants Behind Its Growth over the Last 30 Years

  • Javier Ventaja-Cruz,
  • Jesús M. Cuevas Rincón,
  • Virginia Tejada-Medina and
  • Ricardo Martín-Moya

3 December 2024

Background: The evolution of women’s football over the past three decades has been remarkable in terms of development, visibility, and acceptance, transforming into a discipline with growing popularity and professionalization. Significant advan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
2,104 Views
10 Pages

1 April 2019

Background: The rate of mastectomy is much higher in Newfoundland and Labrador than in any other province in Canada, even for women diagnosed at an early stage. In this paper, we present qualitative data from women who have made a decision for surgic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
3,870 Views
13 Pages

Physical Activity and Diet in Older Women: A Narrative Review

  • Anna Vittoria Mattioli,
  • Valentina Selleri,
  • Giada Zanini,
  • Milena Nasi,
  • Marcello Pinti,
  • Claudio Stefanelli,
  • Francesco Fedele and
  • Sabina Gallina

22 December 2022

Physical activity and diet are essential for maintaining good health and preventing the development of non-communicable diseases, especially in the older adults. One aspect that is often over-looked is the different response between men and women to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,397 Views
14 Pages

Black women of reproductive age are disproportionately affected by chronic health conditions and related disease risk factors such as physical inactivity and obesity. Health promotion studies need to focus on this population since optimizing preconce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,749 Views
25 Pages

Gender gaps in spatial skills—a domain relevant to STEM jobs—have been hypothesized to contribute to women’s underrepresentation in STEM fields. To study emerging adults’ beliefs about skill sets and jobs, we asked college stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,773 Views
15 Pages

Purpose: This study attempts to explore the experiences of infertility among women with male factor infertility. Methods: From April to July 2018, nine women with experience of male factor infertility and assistant reproductive technology were interv...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
16,013 Views
20 Pages

8 March 2024

Approximately one billion women globally have undergone menopause, occurring at an age of around 51 years and typically between ages 45 and 54. As life expectancy increases, women are projected to spend at least one-third of their lives in postmenopa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,590 Views
13 Pages

20 October 2018

The issue of women’s participation in top management and boardroom positions has received increasing attention in the academic literature and the press. However, the pace of advancement for women managers and directors continues to be slow and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,751 Views
19 Pages

The occupational health of immigrant workers in the United States is a major concern. This analysis describes two domains, organization of work and work safety culture, important to the occupational health of Latinx women in farmworker families. Sixt...

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