Of course, refugee women face a whole host of gender-specific challenges – not least heightened risk sexual assault or exploitation, and caring responsibilities for their children.
Crucially though, the exclusive participation of women as part of the cohort, creates a space where gender-specific challenges can be addressed.
Interventions designed to improve statin adherence should take gender-specific challenges into consideration such as women being older at the time of increased CVD risk, higher rates of statin intolerance, and potentially greater caregiving responsibilities.
This isn't the first time Andrews has spoken out about gender-specific challenges.
The implications of not addressing gender-specific challenges in the workplace end up hurting both men and women's recognition of gender differences in leadership positions.
Women covering men's sports almost universally face gender-specific challenges and sexism throughout their careers -- and Erin Andrews is no exception.
The study maps gender-specific challenges in the extractive industry, and provides policy recommendation on how to promote women's engagement in non-traditional employment, such as in the mining sector.
However, in addition to this wage gap, women in Nigeria are marred by other gender-specific challenges; for example, maternal mortality outcomes are some of the world's worst, with the average Nigerian woman at a 1 in 22 risk of dying in childbirth during her lifetime.
Adolescents face a series of age-related and gender-specific challenges over the years as part of the developmental process.
This reflects the gender specific challenges experienced in Nigeria, and across Africa, that are so persistent and widespread that even the very process of childbirth is marred by them.
For one, there is a sense of comfort knowing that all members share more or less similar backgrounds, be it gender-specific social challenges, life experiences, physical strength, and unwelcome social expectations that are too often imposed on them.
