<big>♀️ In recent decades, research keeps showing [free site, just have to register] that female doctors tend to supply more patient-centered, participatory, and positive care than do males.</big></big> Among the specifics, women more often:
Three major recent studies in particular focus on patient outcomes:
A 2016 review of 58,000 internists’ care for 1.6 million Medicare hospitalizations involving 8 common conditions —e.g., sepsis, pneumonia, ..heart failure— found patients of women drs less likely to die or even need readmission within 30 days of discharge. Study authors Tsugawa and colleagues concluded that
<big><big>"approximately 32,000 fewer patients would die if male physicians could achieve the same outcomes as female physicians every year."</big></big>
In a 2017 tabulation by surgeon gender of over 100,000 patient outcomes of 25 surgical procedures —eg, coronary artery bypass graft, appendectomy … total knee replacement— the patients with women surgeons had lower risk for death.
The Greenwood et al. landmark 2018 study found that emergency department heart attack patients whose drs were women had better survival rates than those whose doctors were men, AND:
- <big>women patients cared for by men physicians had the worst outcomes;
- women patients cared for by women physicians had the best outcomes;
- the number of women physicians in the emergency department was positively correlated with better outcomes for women patients...</big>
<tt>...pretty much all the published data consider gender as a binary variable, so for now, our evidence-based conversation is limited to men and women….[but meanwhile]:</tt></big>
nobody does this crucial work for everyone better than women. That fact might stand for a world of trades, professions, and fields in which men are traditionally imagined supreme. If it wasn’t enough that women equally are human —if women needed to earn equal regard and equal rights— history and current research demonstrate that it’s been MORE than earned. Nobody does it better. Bar none.
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<big>♀️</big> ReutersFndn <big>Reclaiming the streets — women & allies globally keeping women safer. </big> WHO reports nearly one in 3 women worldwide subjected to physical or sexual violence during her lifetime. In Britain, the abduction and murder of Sarah Everard as she walked home has led ever more women to speak out about their fears and experiences of being harassed or attacked by men in public, calling for more action to address this violence, and with women sharing their everyday safety tips - such as pretending to be on the phone and crossing the street to avoid groups of men. Here, here are six community initiatives from around the world that strive to make streets safer for women: [<tt>paraphrased</tt>]
- … Cape Town ... South Africa … a female-only taxi service
- and Soweto township dozens of men and women neighborhood patrollers sound their vuvuzelas - plastic trumpets originally used to cheer on soccer games - to let women know …[who] leave home [to go to work] before sunrise [that trumpt patrollers are read to escort them] to public transport points…
- Miriam Gonzalez founded Geochicas in 2016 on realizing it was men adding the majority of data to OpenStreetMap (OSM), the world's biggest crowd-sourced map. Geochicas has since trained more than 230 women in 22 countries, mainly in Latin America, on how to use and contribute to online maps, especially adding places with street lighting and places used specifically by women, such as childcare services, domestic violence shelters and women's clinics.
- Germany — after Marathon runner Sandra Seilz survived an assault by three men, she launched Safe Shorts, clothing made of cut- and tear-resistant fabric and cords, with a deafening 140-decibel alarm to deter attackers. Safe Shorts had customers in more than 35 countries including Japan, Canada, Australia and Libya.
- Four decades of war left Afghanistan 75% informally settled and in disarray. Now women there are finding respite in more than half a dozen of capital city Kabul’s restored and upgraded parks, some admittin only women and families on certain days, and recent development plans include markets for women and improved-safety transportation networks.
- apps like Safecity, My Safetipin and Himmat (courage) equip women to report crimes anonymously, warn of danger hotspots, and share data with each other and with government agencies. Nearly 100,000 people have used the My Safetipin app alone, in India and cities around the world such as Bogota, Hanoi and Mombasa.
<big>🇺🇸</big> Smithsonian How Ida Holdgreve’s Stitches Helped the Wright Brothers Get Off the Ground: In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright hired an Ohio seamstress, who is only now being recognized as the first female worker in the American aviation industry.
Around 1910, Ida Holdgreve, a Dayton, Ohio, seamstress, answered a local ad that read, “Plain Sewing Wanted.” But the paper got it wrong. Dayton brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright were hiring a seamstress, though the sewing they needed would be far from plain. [The Wright brothers, in fact, wanted someone to perform “plane sewing,” but in 1910, that term was as novel as airplanes...]
“Well, if it’s plain,” said Holdgreve years later, recalling her initial thoughts on the brothers’ ad, “I can certainly do that.” The quote ran in the October 6, 1975, edition of Holdgreve’s hometown newspaper, The Delphos Herald… She got the job…
“The fact that, early on, a woman was part of a team working on the world's newest technology is just amazing to me,” says Amanda Wright Lane, the Wright brothers’ great-grandniece. “I wonder if she thought the idea was crazy….”
<big>🌏</big> Feb 20, 2021, from Women'sAgenda.com (Australia) and AP March 12 Kuwait’s women launch “I will not be silent” instagram campaign. Click on the AP link to see a photo of some of the women in this campaign, and one of their allies.
Abrar Zenkawi was [driving with her toddler nieces, sister and friend] in Kuwait City when she saw a man waving and smiling in her rearview mirror. Elsewhere, this may have been a benign highway flirtation. But in Kuwait, it’s a haunting routine that often turns dangerous. The man pulled up beside her, inched closer and finally drove into her. Zenkawi’s car ... flipped six times...
“It’s considered normal here. Men always drive way too close to scare girls, chase them to their homes, follow them to work, just for fun,” said Zenkawi, 34, who spent months in the hospital with a shattered spine.
… Instagram page [Lan Asket] has led to an outpouring of testimony from women fed up with being intimidated or attacked in a country where the criminal code doesn’t define sexual harassment and lays out few repercussions for men who kill female relatives for actions they consider immoral...
<big>🗺️</big> CNN March 8, Int’l Women’s day, women around the world share lessons learned during the pandemic, a bit American-heavy, but otherwise quite diverse.
<big>🇬🇧</big> TheGuardian Opinion|Politics UK government wants tougher sentences for attacks on statues than on women- its culture war gets ever more absurd. Women killed: 118. Statues 'killed': 1. So guess which is the national priority?
<big>🇹🇳</big> ReutersFndn Tunisian court frees Rania Amdouni, a member of the human rights group Damj, Tunisian Association for Justice and Equality, arrested earlier this month. Fellow activists say the prominent women's rights and LGBT defender had been harassed for months online by police unions, and targeted among daily protests and 1,600 arrests beginning January 10 calling for social equality and access to jobs.
<big>🇧🇷 — 🇸🇬 </big> world’s50best.com Eight women-led initiatives in gastronomy making a difference during the coronavirus pandemic
With the hospitality industry in unprecedented crisis, chefs and bartenders have been looking for ways to help the community, as well as support besieged health services and struggling consumers around the globe. Here are eight creative ways in which women from Brazil to Singapore are responding to the pandemic with positive action.
<big>🇬🇧</big> TheGuardian Opinion | UK News Society is full of structures that dehumanise and trivialise women, but we have the power to disrupt them. From porn to true crime stories, we must end the portrayal of violence against women.
<big>⚕️</big> Medscape In a Female Mid-Life Hyposexual Desire Disorder drug study, the placebo was preferred more, some measures were based on erectile dysfunction research and others of questionable validity were added post-hoc, data was incomplete, drop-outs due to adverse effects were concealed, and “remarkable … spin” was put on efficacy and tolerability.
<big>🇬🇧</big> TheGuardian|The Week in Patriarchy by Arwa Mahdawi: Angry at the idea of a curfew for men? Policing, both formal and informal, of female bodies is so normalized it’s no longer shocking – unless the same standards are applied to men.
<big>🇬🇧</big> TheGuardian Police will be required to record crimes motivated by hostility to women – Domestic abuse bill concession announced in House of Lords, a step towards making misogyny a hate crime.
<big>🇰🇪</big> ReutersFndn Kenya court ruling gives boost to fight against FGM
...One in five Kenyan women and girls aged between 15 and 49 have undergone FGM, which usually involves the partial or total removal of the female genitalia and can cause a host of serious health problems [including death], says the United Nations.
Kenya outlawed FGM a decade ago with a punishment of three years imprisonment and a US$2,000 fine, but the practice persists as some communities see it is necessary for social acceptance and increasing their daughters' marriage prospects.
Wednesday's court ruling dismissed a petition by a Kenyan doctor who argued the anti-FGM law was unconstitutional as it violated the right of adult women to practice their cultural beliefs and do what they wanted with their bodies….
<big>🇸🇻</big> NBCNews Losing her pregnancy due to domestic assault, a woman was jailed for abortion for 30 yearsin 2008. Two years into her sentence, she died of untreated cancer evident at the time of her arrest following miscarriage & collapse. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights is now hearing the case brought by rights groups that El Salvador is committing "gender violence" by criminalizing women with obstetric emergencies.
<big>⚕️</big> medscape According to the Emergency Nurses Association, healthcare workers account for approximately 50% of all victims of workplace violence in the US.
<big>♫ ♪</big> The Nation How Black Women Musicians Defined What We Call Culture A conversation with Daphne Brooks about her new book Liner Notes for the Revolution, a “counterhistory of popular music criticism.” NOTE: this site allows 3 free reads.
Inspired by the liner notes that accompany vinyl records, which started as places for advertising and became “potent places for experimentation and critique,” Daphne Brooks places her own book between genres. Liner Notes for the Revolution is at once a “counterhistory of popular music criticism,” archival scholarship on the lost and under-remembered figures of Black women’s music-making, and a manual for how to listen to music in a way that understands singing itself as culture work and intellectual labor. Frankfurt School thinkers make frequent
appearances in the bibliography, as do Black feminist scholars from Zora Neale Hurston on, but they’re almost outnumbered by critics, poets, and fiction writers, and they’re all placed on equal intellectual ground with the musicians themselves.
Brooks writes with buoyant passion about the musicians and performances that mean so much to her, intellectually as well as personally. Her chattiness with her reader reflects the importance she places on the openness and intimacy that singers create with their audience, as well as the sensibility that she prizes in criticism and scholarship, of discarding useless hierarchies and barriers to understanding...
<big>♫ ♪</big>25 Brilliant Female Musicians Curate[d] An International Women’s Day Playlist for Vogue. Each musician contributed an empowering or personally meaningful track by another woman, paired with Vogue’s selection of one of their own songs.
<big>♀️</big> DailyKos -by Tina Vasquez for Prism Reports/OurPrism The American Bar Association has adopted a resolution opposing the criminalization of pregnancy outcomes including abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth.
“We know that when health care like abortion is criminalized, Black and brown women, trans folks, and nonbinary people are more likely to face punishment and criminalization … This is dangerous and does not keep communities safe.”
<big>🇺🇸</big> NYT.com + TheGuardian + Vox.com: Six of the 8 victims of the Atlanta Spa shootings were women of Asian Descent; all but one of the victims were women. Male white shooter targetted spas to “eliminate temptation.”
<big>♀️</big> ReutersFndn The U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted unanimously to confirm veteran government trade lawyer Katherine Tai as the first woman of color to serve as U.S. Trade Representative, enforcing trade deals, confronting China's trade practices and patching up ties with U.S. allies.
The rare 98-0 vote for Tai, a Yale and Harvard-educated daughter of immigrants from Taiwan, reflects support from pro-labor Democrats, traditional free-trade Republicans and China hawks from both parties.
Tai, 47, formerly served as the chief Democratic trade counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee, where she helped to negotiate stronger labor rights provisions in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. She also was USTR's head of China trade enforcement during the Obama administration...
<big>♀️</big> Center for AmericanProgress.org Mar. 10 A Profile of Immigrant Women in the American Workforce
For years, immigrant women have made vital contributions to the U.S. economy, and they and their families have become deeply rooted in American society. The average immigrant woman has lived in the United States since 1996, and the average undocumented immigrant woman has lived in the country since 2005. Particularly during this Women’s History Month, these essential communities must not go unrecognized….
...Top occupations and industries among working immigrant women — An estimated 12.3 million immigrant women, including 2.5 million undocumented women, are members of the workforce. Together, they comprise 16.3 percent of all employed women in the United States.
The top five industries for immigrant women in the workforce are health care and social assistance; accommodation and food services; educational services; retail trade; and manufacturing…
[Their occupations] closely mirror their top industries: office and administrative support staff; sales and related workers; building and grounds cleaning and maintenance staff; health care practitioners; and health care support staff...
<big>♀️</big> ReutersFndn March 16 — Kamala Harris makes U.N. debut, pledges to fight for women, democracy.
<big>♀️</big> March 17 — Deb Haaland (a kosak!) sworn in as Secretary of the Interior by Vice President Kamala Harris — deseret.com Navajo Nation poet Laura Tohe explores the significance of President Joe Biden's appointment of a Native American woman leader as Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
<big><big>♀️ SAVE THIS DATE: MARCH 24</big>for 'Her Story: Women's History Through an Equity Lens'</big>
Join the U of A as we continue to celebrate Women's History Month with Lisa Corrigan, professor of communication and director of the Gender Studies Program as she explores "Her Story: Women's History Through an Equity Lens."
In her Zoom talk from 12-1:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24, Corrigan will examine the shifting political context of women's equality to understand historical and contemporary issues facing U.S. women as a social class, including unequal political representation, poverty, social violence, the wage gap, the glass ceiling, second shift labor and leaky pipelines.
"'Her Story' has been told throughout the years and in fact, we celebrate Her everyday and particularly in the month of March," said Romona West, director of diversity and inclusion for Fulbright College. "Women's History Week began in 1978, which officially became a month-long celebration and observance in 1987."
...while some women have made notable strides in our American society, for example, Vice President Kamala Harris, many women continue to see challenges in career advancement and equality, social violence and even oppression in many countries. In her talk, Corrigan will address the question of why we are continuing to see some of these challenges in 2021.
The Q&A portion of the event after Corrigan's talk will be moderated by two law school students, Brooke Taylor and Josie Bates, representatives from the Women’s Law School Association and Outlaw.
This webinar event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information, please visit the Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’s website. This event is sponsored by Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the U of A School of Law and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Compliance.
About Lisa Corrigan: Corrigan, Ph.D., is a professor of communication in the Department of Communication and director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Arkansas. Her first book, Prison Power: How Prison Politics Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (University Press of Mississippi, 2016), is the recipient of two national book awards from the National Communication Association. Her second book was just released and is titled, Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties (University Press of Mississippi, 2020.) Corrigan also co-hosts a popular podcast with Laura Weiderhaft called Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations.
Contacts: ⧫ Romona West, director of diversity and inclusion, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, 479-575-4887, romona@uark.edu ⧫ Edison Williams, diversity, equity, and inclusion coordinator, School of Law, 479-575-4164, erw006@uark.edu ⧫ Danielle L. Williams, assistant vice chancellor and director, Office of Equal Opportunity and Compliance, 479-575-4019, dlw11@uark.edu
<big>♀️</big> accuweather.com The Legacy of pioneering women at NASA continues to inspire today.