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Scientific Sexism at the University of São Paulo

Sexismo científico: o viés de gênero na produção científica da Universidade de São Paulo

A bibliometric study examines publications, citations and the concentration of men among faculty with high H-indices.

  • Academic Patriarchy Critique
  • Glass Ceiling
  • Knowledge Production
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Rights, Democracy, and Islamist Women’s Activism in Tunisia and Egypt

Mhajne and Brandt compare the Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood and women in Tunisia’s Ennahda, tracing repression, entry into institutions and claims about rights.

  • Arab Feminism
  • Religion and Gender
  • Political Participation
27

Disabled People Face More Physical, Sexual and Verbal Violence

Les personnes handicapées sont plus souvent victimes de violences physiques, sexuelles et verbales

A French study links disability and gender to violence, while showing how institutional residents and people unable to answer a survey disappear from its measures.

  • Disability Justice
  • Anti-Sexual Violence
  • Violence Against Women
28

A Very Basic View of Feminism: Feminist Girls and Meanings of (Celebrity) Feminism

A very basic view of feminism: feminist girls and meanings of (celebrity) feminism

This paper explores young women's understanding of feminism, particularly their perspectives on celebrity feminism. The research finds that while celebrity feminism is often criticized as superficial and lacking intersectional perspectives, it plays an important role as a 'gateway' or 'starting point' for attracting and guiding young girls to engage with and deepen their understanding of feminism.

  • Fourth Wave Feminism
  • Media Representation Critique
  • Pop Culture Feminism
29

Explaining Support for Muslim Feminism in the Arab Middle East and North Africa

Glas and Alexander use 51 surveys in 15 Arab countries to study how support for women’s rights can coexist with strong religious attachment.

  • Arab Feminism
  • Religion and Gender
  • Gender Politics
30

Sex and Gender Analysis Improves Science and Engineering

Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineering

From copepod respiration to labels in cooking images, Tannenbaum and colleagues use three figures to show where outcome measures, grouping choices and categories matter.

  • Research Methods
  • Gender Discrimination
  • Technology Critique
31

Re-politicizing the Gender and Climate Change Debate

Re-politicizing the Gender and Climate Change Debate: The Potential of Feminist Political Ecology to Engage with Power in Action in Adaptation Policies and Projects in Nicaragua

Noémi Gonda uses fieldwork in Nicaragua to ask how adaptation projects assign women the role of beneficiaries and whose knowledge can change a plan.

  • Climate Justice
  • Feminist Political Ecology
  • Environmental Justice
32

The Carceral Creep

The Carceral Creep: Gender-Based Violence, Race, and the Expansion of the Punitive State, 1973-1983

Using the U.S. anti-domestic-violence movement of 1973 - 1983, Mimi E. Kim traces how collaboration with law enforcement reshaped movement autonomy and how gendered, racialized, and classed narratives legitimated punitive policy.

  • Carceral Feminism
  • Anti-Sexual Violence
  • Prison Abolition
33

Child Penalties across Countries: Evidence and Explanations

Kleven and colleagues align earnings around the birth of a first child to compare mothers’ and fathers’ trajectories in six countries.

  • Gender Pay Gap
  • Working Mothers
  • Feminist Economics
34

Gender, migration and care deficits: what role for the sustainable development goals?

Sarah Gammage and Natacha Stevanovic ask who takes on care when wealthier countries hire migrant women and how those workers can claim labor rights. Read their argument with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Domestic Workers Convention.

  • Migration
  • Care Economy
  • Development Studies
35

Climate change and women's health: Impacts and policy directions

Sorensen and colleagues trace gendered climate - health risks and propose linking health, gender, energy and disaster policy through participation and shared indicators.

  • Women's Health
  • Climate Justice
  • Environmental Justice
36

Necrobiopower: Who Can Inhabit the Nation-State?

Necrobiopoder: Quem pode habitar o Estado-nação?

Bento links reproductive law, imprisonment and police records to ask how the Brazilian state sustains life and produces death.

  • State Violence
  • Reproductive Justice
  • Race and Gender
37

From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice

From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice: Women-of-Color Feminism and Alternatives to Incarceration

Mimi E. Kim traces how U.S. feminist anti-violence politics became entangled with criminalization - and how women-of-color feminist movements developed restorative and transformative alternatives.

  • Transformative Justice
  • Carceral Feminism
  • Prison Abolition
38

“Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”

“Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”: A Theory-Guided Literature Review on Gender Bias in Health Care and Gendered Norms towards Patients with Chronic Pain

From matching cases of neck pain to waits for analgesia, this review traces where gendered expectations enter care and what different research designs can establish.

  • Gender Norms
  • Gender Discrimination
  • Mental Health
39

Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification

Buolamwini and Gebru audit commercial gender classifiers, showing how overall accuracy conceals unequal errors across skin-type and gender groups.

  • Data Feminism
  • AI Ethics
  • Intersectional Feminism
40

Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism

Loretta J. Ross frames reproductive justice as Black feminist movement praxis: three linked rights, material conditions, and the risks of separating reproductive choice from race and power.

  • Reproductive Justice
  • Intersectional Feminism
  • Women of Color Feminism
41

The color of pain: racial iniquities in prenatal care and childbirth in Brazil

A cor da dor: iniquidades raciais na atenção pré-natal e ao parto no Brasil

Brazilian birth data distinguish service coverage from equitable care, revealing racial disparities in prenatal provision, companionship and pain relief.

  • Black Feminism
  • Women's Health
  • Reproductive Justice
42

Disability is not asexuality: the childbearing experiences and aspirations of women with disability in Zimbabwe

Drawing on narratives from 16 disabled women in Harare, Christine Peta examines communication and information barriers in reproductive care, and the tension between imposed asexuality, control of intimacy and reproductive autonomy.

  • Disability Justice
  • Reproductive Justice
  • Women's Health
43

Tasks with Low Promotability

Gender Differences in Accepting and Receiving Requests for Tasks with Low Promotability

Babcock and colleagues separate volunteering, requests and acceptance to explain how organizationally useful work can become unequally allocated.

  • Workplace Inequality
  • Career Development
  • Sexual Division of Labor
44

Gender Stereotypes About Intellectual Ability

Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children’s interests

Four studies distinguish children’s ideas about brilliance, grades and effort, showing how labels can shape interest while leaving later outcomes open.

  • Education
  • Gender Stereotypes
  • Gender Roles
45

Rape and Sexual Assault in France: First Results from Virage

Viols et agressions sexuelles en France : premiers résultats de l’enquête Virage

Virage asks about specific acts to identify sexual violence, separating lifetime from recent experiences across family, partnership, work and public settings.

  • Anti-Sexual Violence
  • Research Methods
  • Violence Against Women
46

Feminist Data Visualization

D’Ignazio and Klein turn feminist epistemology into questions for visualization design: how categories, visual form, participation, context, and labor shape whose knowledge becomes legible.

  • Data Feminism
  • Digital Feminism
  • Data Justice
47

Intersectionality: A Situated Approach to Dominance

La interseccionalidad: una aproximación situada a la dominación

Viveros examines Colombian masculinities and interracial couples to show how race, class and gender jointly shape privilege, sexual stigma and feminist coalitions.

  • Intersectional Feminism
  • Decolonial Feminism
  • Black Feminism
48

Contradictions of Capital and Care

Fraser traces care crises through family wages, dual-earner households and global care chains, asking how social protection can support autonomy as well as care.

  • Marxist Feminism
  • Care Economy
  • Economic Empowerment