Voices for gender equity in medical physics

Gender-Oriented Education: A New Approach to Gender Equity

The twentieth century can be considered the century of gender approaches. From extremist and one-sided movements to moderate and neutral schools of thought about gender, which have surrounded the last century and all of them had originated in achieving gender justice, but each has taken a different approach as a different definition of equity. The curriculum is no exception to this rule. The pu...

Gender equity & human development.

The welfare of both women and men constitutes the human welfare. At the turn of the century amidst the glory of unprecedented growth in national income, India is experiencing the spread of rural distress. It is mainly due to the collapse of agricultural economy. Structural adjustments and competition from large-scale enterprises result in loss of rural livelihoods. Poor delivery of public servi...

Gender Equality and Equity

The Gender Equity Report

www.upenn.edu/almanac ALMANAC SUPPLEMENT DECEMBER 4, 2001 www.upenn.edu/almanac I The Gender Equity Committee was established in June, 2000, by Provost Robert Barchi and Faculty Senate Chair Larry Gross at the recommendation of the University Council Steering Committee. The charge was to undertake a systematic review of the status of women faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Four subcomm...

Physics-based synthesis of disordered voices

The purpose of this work is the development of a synthesizer of disordered voices, i.e., a generator of sounds that mimic the vocal quality of speakers that suffer from a voice disorder or laryngeal pathology. A physics-based modeling strategy is followed for physiological fidelity and a direct relation between the physiology and the perception of vocal quality. The synthesizer is based on a sm...