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Background National dementia guidelines provide recommendations about the most effective approaches to diagnosis and interventions. Guidelines can improve care, but some groups such as people with minority characteristics may be disadvantaged if recommended approaches are the same for everyone. It is not known if dementia guidelines address specific needs related to patient characteristics. The objectives of this review are to identify which countries have national guidelines for dementia and synthesise recommendations relating to protected characteristics, as defined in the UK Equality Act 2010: age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. Methods and findings We searched CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Medline databases and the Guideline International Network library from inception to March 4, 2020, for dementia guidelines in any language. We also searched, between April and September 2020, Google and the national health websites of all 196 countries in English and in each country's official languages. To be included, guidelines had to provide recommendations about dementia, which were expected to be followed by healthcare workers and be approved at a national policy level. We rated quality according to the iCAHE guideline quality checklist. We provide a narrative synthesis of recommendations identified for each protected characteristic, prioritising those from higher-quality guidelines. Forty-six guidelines from 44 countries met our criteria, of which 18 were rated as higher quality. Most guidelines (39/46; 85%) made at least one reference to protected characteristics, and we identified recommendations relating to age, disability, race (or culture, ethnicity, or language), religion, sex, and sexual orientation. Age was the most frequently referenced characteristic (31/46; 67%) followed by race (or culture, ethnicity, or language; 25/46; 54%). Recommendations included specialist investigation and support for younger people affected by dementia and consideration of culture when assessing whether someone had dementia and providing person-centred care. Guidelines recommended considering religion when providing person-centred and end-of-life care. For disability, it was recommended that healthcare workers consider intellectual disability and sensory impairment when assessing for dementia. Most recommendations related to sex recommended not using sex hormones to treat cognitive impairment in men and women. One guideline made one recommendation related to sexual orientation. The main limitation of this study is that we only included national guidelines applicable to a whole country meaning guidelines from countries with differing healthcare systems within the country may have been excluded. Conclusions National guidelines for dementia vary in their consideration of protected characteristics. We found that around a fifth of the world's countries have guidelines for dementia. We have identified areas of good practice that can be considered for future guidelines and suggest that all guidelines provide specific evidence-based recommendations for minority groups with examples of how to implement them. This will promote equity in the care of people affected by dementia and help to ensure that people with protected characteristics also have high-quality clinical services., Author(s): Tiffeny James 1,*, Naaheed Mukadam 1, Andrew Sommerlad 1, Hossein Rostami Pour 2, Melanie Knowles 3, Ignacia Azocar 1, Gill Livingston 1 Introduction Around 50 million people live with [...]

Abstract Despite the renewed commitment of the international community to provide economic opportunities for poor women, most observers suggest that the majority of the past and current experience of communty [...]

What country first allowed women to stand in national parliamentary elections? Australia, in 1902, the year after the Commonwealth's formation. (And for anyone under a rock recently, Australia in June [...]

Family law is the law of everyday life. It can serve as a first step in transforming social realities and fostering equal rights for women. This study develops an index that measures how equally family law codes treat men and women in the nations in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses this index to determine what relationships correlate with women's equality in the home. The findings of this research suggest that respect for individual rights, the presence of powerful women in the public sphere, and both African and international NGOs can provide the framework necessary to change repressive family law provisions in sub-Saharan nations. This knowledge should help African women shape the contours of the laws that govern their daily lives. KEYWORDS family law, sub-Saharan Africa, property rights, marital rights, personal integrity rights DOI: 10.1080/15544770903266566

A study was conducted to show that the organization of work can sustain or erode gender and racial disadvantage. It is argued that restructuring work can improve women's and minorities' visibility. Findings indicate that ascriptive inequality declines when employers adopt popular team and training programs which increase cross-functional collaboration.

Organizations are not only gendered; they are also classed--that is, they articulate ideas and presentations of gender that are mediated by class position. This article pursues the idea of organizations as gendered and classed by means of a comparative ethnographic analysis of the performance of sexuality in four exotic dance clubs in the Southwestern United States. Strip clubs construct sexuality to be consistent with client class norms and assumptions and with how the clubs and dancers think working-class or middle-class sexuality should be expressed. Class differences are represented as sexual differences in very concrete ways: the appearance of dancers and other staff dancing and performance styles, and interactions that take place between dancers and customers. Keywords: organizational culture; sexuality; social class; sex work

The reasons for the gender wage gap like wage dispersion and discrimination in Vietnam are analyzed. The education and equality at work place reduce the gender gap and increases the market competitiveness.

The European Commission launched, on 17 December 2010, a new equal opportunities strategy with concrete targets for the period up to 2014. By then, 25% of senior management posts should [...]

On the occasion of International Women's Day, on 8 March, Maros Sefcovic, the commissioner for interinstitutional relations and administration, outlined a new equal opportunity strategy that will set gender quotas [...]

The Spanish EU Presidency wants 'to put citizens first' and wishes to reinforce Europe's social dimension - including the issue of equality between men and women - during its turn [...]

The inferior status of women in Ukraine is discussed with regard to the myth of Ukraine's matriarchy that has led to the impression of female subordination. Conflicting comments on women's supposed empowerment and initiatives on equal rights promotion and addressing gender stereotypes are presented.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) address, among other global concerns: health and well-being for all (goal 3); gender equality (goal 5); and the reduction of inequality within and among countries [...]