Abstract Introduction Despite women constituting over half of new UK doctors, and a similar proportion worldwide, gender disparity remains an issue throughout academic medicine. Surgery has shown particularly slow progress towards parity. This study aims to quantify representation within editorial boards the top 25 general surgical journals. Method All journals were collated using SCImago Journ...

This essay adds to the ongoing dialogue on the literary representation of Caribbean women. It grapples with a range of issues: how has iconic literary representation of the Caribbean woman altered from the inception of Caribbean women’s writing to the present? Given that literary representation was a tool for inscribing otherness and a counter-discursive device for recuperating the self from th...

the ideological discourse analysis and critical studies in social and human sciences have been of much interest recently. critical discourse analysis (cda) aims at discovering the negative influences of language use on the production and reproduction of power and domination relationships in society. thus, social inequalities such as race, age, religious, gender and class discrimination have bee...