Japan is notorious for having a poor gender-equality record, despite being the world's third-largest economy, and ranks 105th out of 136 countries in the world on the 2013 Global Gender Gap Index, just behind Cambodia.
Other factors such as study design (A versus B), MSKCC prognostic group (intermediate versus poor), gender and age were not significant (P > 0.05 for each).
"When a lot of these [restrictions] are targeted at censoring female pleasure doesn't that perpetuate the poor gender education our children are already receiving?" she wrote.
Age is not negatively related to the skill mismatch as it is in the case of native workers, while being part of a poor bargaining power group (for gender or career history reasons) seems to have less effect on the overeducation incidence among migrant than native workers.
TWIST1 over-expression in colorectal cancer is associated with gender and with a poor prognosis factor, such as nodal invasion [22], but its impact on the clinical outcome of the disease is still not clear.
Elderly patients of both genders typically perform a poor renal function.
Patients presenting with PFP of long duration who score worse on the KPS have a poorer prognosis, irrespective of age, gender and morphometry.
The role of research, and operational research in this process is less clear, and there is limited discussion on strategies that mainstream a pro-poor and gender sensitive approach throughout the research cycle.
For example, Shiffman has shown how organizational rivalries, poor leadership, gender inequalities, and the lack of a resonating frame significantly impeded the ability of stakeholders and agencies to achieve the rapid reductions in maternal mortality that were seen in the area of neonatal mortality (8, 9).
For mothers in poor countries gender equality may appear unrealisable (Heymann, 2006).
