Gender Issues

Networking

European Platform of Women Scientists
The European Platform of Women Scientists will give European women scientists a voice in the research policy debate. The aim is to promote the understanding of the gender issue in science.
http://www.epws.org/

Databases of Women Scientists (Project funded by the European Community)
http://www.cews.org/cews/files/166/de/datawomsci.pdf (3 MB)

European Mothers in Science - EMIS
An interdisciplinary network for all female academics who want to pursue both scientific interests and have children
http://www.mothersinscience.org/

Association Femmes et Sciences
http://www.int-evry.fr/femmes_et_sciences/

Association Française des Femmes Diplômées des Universités
http://www.int-evry.fr/affdu

EURODOC
European-wide federation of national associations of Ph.D. candidates and young researchers
Topic Gender Equality: http://www.eurodoc.net/articles.php?lng=en&pg=170

Literature

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine, 1-2
Author: Marianne Legato, The Partnership for Gender Specific Medicine at Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Contents
Gender and Development Central Nervous System Cardiology Pulmonology Gastroenterology Reproductive Biology Oncology; Nutrition Drug Metabolis Infectious Disease Bone Immunology/ Rheumatology Aging

Hardbound, ISBN: 0-12-440905-9, 1396 pages, publication date: 2004
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
Prices: GBP 175, USD 279.95, EUR 263

GENDER PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH AND MEDICINE, 7
  
Authors: Marcia Texler Segal, Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita, Indiana University Southeast, KY, USA
Vasilikie Demos, University of Minnesota-Morris, MN, USA
Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Arizona State University, AZ, USA
Contents
Gendered perspectives on medicine: an introduction (M.T. Segal et al.). Situating epidemiology (B.E. Jackson). Gendering the medicalization thesis (E. Riska). "Big Pharma" in our bedrooms: an analysis of the medicalization of women's sexual problems (H. Hartley). The continuum: somatic distress to medicalization in women with breast cancer: theoretical and empirical assessment (E.S. Breslau). Intersectionality and women's health: charting a path to eliminating health disparities (L. Weber, D. Parra-Medina). "We're not a part of society, we don't have a say": exclusion as a determinant of poor women's health (C. Reid). Rariu and Luo women: illness as resistance to men and medicine in rural Kenya (N. Luke).

Hardbound, ISBN: 0-7623-1058-8, 330 pages, publication date: 2003
Imprint: JAI
Prices: GBP 60, USD 90, EUR 90

European Community

Transforming Research Methodologies in EU Life Sciences and Biomedicine
Gender-Sensitive Ways of Doing Research
http://ejw.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/12/3/377

GENDER EQUALITY - Framework of the European Community http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/gender_equality/index_en.html