Word: genderism
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...DFCI and associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, black men are 2.5 times more likely to die of prostate cancer than white men in Boston, and black women have the highest death rate from cancer. “There are pervasive and persistent disparities by race, gender, and ethnicity,” she said. Inequalities extend into the realm of medical education and research as well. “Minority groups represent 33 percent of the U.S. population, but only 12.3 percent of registered nurses are from minority backgrounds,” Glazer explained...
...Already the poorest region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa continues to see its efforts at economic growth frustrated by a disease that kills farmers, teachers, and businessmen in the prime of their working lives. And HIV/AIDS reserves an especially cruel toll for society’s most vulnerable. Gender discrimination, physiological susceptibility, and economic inequality have combined to affect a profound demographic shift in the disease; almost 60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and worldwide, women continue to be infected at a higher rate than men. As communities are left bereft...
...women who took aspirin every other day for 10 years had roughly the same number of heart attacks as those taking a placebo. The only group of women who had fewer heart incidents were those who were at least 65 years old at the start of the trial. The gender gap could have something to do with the fact that women seem to be protected from heart disease by estrogen until menopause and tend to have heart attacks later than men do. (Low-dose aspirin did reduce the risk of stroke in women of all ages...
...article about how the will to succeed is affected by genes, gender, privilege and persistence sparked a lively debate between readers who appreciated the broad diversity of the people we profiled and readers who rejected wealth and fame as the most important indicators of a fulfilled life...
...thatSamuel Alito Jr. has beennominated to become an associate justice of the Supreme Court [Nov. 14], will someone please make the argument that the biggest reason he should not be confirmed is his gender? If the Supreme Court is to reflect the nation's demographics, at least half its members should be women. The court's overwhelming maleness isn't a fair representation of the majority of Americans. Surely the legal profession has at least one woman as competent as Alito...