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"Tobacco control programs really need to have a female perspective; it can't be a generalized message, it has to be sex-specific," she said.
Women smokers are at greater risk for heart disease than men 2011
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"Tobacco control programs really need to have a female perspective; it can't be a generalized message, it has to be sex-specific," she said.
Women smokers are at greater risk for heart disease than men 2011
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"Interim policy improvements are already underway, intended to address the need for greater consistency in sex-specific analysis and availability of sex-specific information for approved medical devices," she said.
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Can it be that these societies recognize that girls undergo much more sex-specific suffering than boys—rape, abuse, lack of full status as a human beings, much less exercise of freedom, enforced subordination and so on—and that parents prefer boys because they would not have to endure such suffering?
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Starker than the pay gap, the pension gulf has been widened by sex-specific annuities that require retiring women to stump up more to get the same income, on the basis that old ladies generally soldier on for longer.
Discrimination ruling: Fast cars, sex and insurance | Editorial 2011
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Food and Drug Administration should make sure companies comply with requirements to provide sex-specific data when it comes to the safety of new drugs and devices, the study said.
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For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files differ by as much as 15% from counts in published data tables.
Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files: Evidence and Implications « ResourceShelf 2010
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They were also subjected to sex-specific types of harassment such as being compelled to undress in front of strange men and to endure humiliating touching and jeering.
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Biologists at Harvard University have found that the epicenter of sex-specific behavior in many species may be a small sensory organ found in the noses of all terrestrial vertebrates except higher primates.
August 5th, 2007 2007
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Which drove me mad, not because I care about gender sameness, but because in Hebrew, adjectives and verbs are both sex-specific, and it annoys me when people use the wrong one.
BEAUTY BANGS: EMPHASIZING BABIES’ FEMININITY » Sociological Images 2009
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