Sentences with phrase «gender dimension»

First, scientists must recognize that including a sex or gender dimension in their research is possible and useful.

Many organizations now call for the inclusion of the sex and gender dimension in biomedical research, to improve the scientific quality and societal relevance of the produced knowledge, technology, and / or innovation (1).

The European Commission is not alone in its effort to push the gender dimension.

University deans, provosts, and department heads may need to be convinced to» «buy into» the importance of the gender dimension within knowledge making,» GenSET wrote in 2010.

A scientist may purposefully decide to focus only on one sex, but problems arise «when the researcher has consciously ignored sex and / or gender as a valid variable or has not realised that a sex and / or gender dimension is relevant to their research,» the IRC writes in its Gender Strategy and Action Plan 2013 - 2020.

Elizabeth Pollitzer, the managing director of Portia, a U.K. - based organization devoted to improving gender equality in science, finds the paper interesting but would have liked to see the authors address the gender dimension head - on.

In a series of internationally exhibited video projects, as well as in several books Been there and back to nowhere (2000), Stuff It — The Video Essay in the Digital Age (2003) and her new monograph Mission Reports (2008) she has focused on the gendered dimension of migrant labour from smuggling on the Spanish - Moroccan border to migrant sex workers in the global context.

This analytical report seeks to draw attention to the gender dimension of climate change and the need to integrate gender issues in climate change responses, with particular emphasis on women's concerns.

In particular it focuses on gender, agriculture and food security, and covers the following themes: the different roles of men and women in agriculture and food security in Africa; climatic stresses on agricultural production, and food and nutritional security and the gender dimensions of these stresses; and the need and options for integrating gender perspectives in agricultural and food security policies.

Responses to climate change tend to focus on scientific and economic solutions rather than addressing the vitally significant human and gender dimensions.

State governments in India have been «very positive» about incorporating the gender dimension in their climate change action plans.

In December 2017, West Coast LEAF submitted recommendations to BC's Fair Wages Commission, with a focus on closing the gap between the living wage and the minimum wage and addressing the gendered dimensions of economic insecurity.

West Coast LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund) intervened in the case to highlight the gendered dimensions of solitary confinement, particularly as it impacts Indigenous women and women who experience mental illness.

West Coast Women's Legal Education and Action Fund also intervened in the case to draw attention to what it termed the «gendered dimensions» of solitary confinement.