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The reality of a global world reconfigures the relationship between accessibility (or its absence), social exclusion and gender inequality. This relationship challenge the mobility system and in particular its universal and neutral solutions, disconnected from the needs and aspirations of mobility and accessibility of women and men in their relationship with social production and reproduction. These issues are associated with the fast-technological evolution and the solutions it offers to the daily space-time needs of women and men. This article discusses how mobile devices (smartphones and trackers) can be used to promote policies for reconciling daily mobility, usually called 'home-work' commuting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the gender equality discourse in science based on Stages Project. Coordinated by the Italian State, it involves a nongovernmental association and five European universities to respond to the problem: why are women the majority in graduate courses and the minority in research? The purpose of this analysis was to highlight the discursive practices that operate in opposition to actions that subordinate women in the field of science. Under Foucault's analysis of discourse, we describe elements that make possible the existence of this discourse as places of enunciation, the status of the enunciators, the interdiscourse, the materiality of this discourse and the enunciative regularities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of a study on the relationship between the sociodemographic characterization variable gender and labour involvement of the nurses of Hospital Beatriz Angelo, in Portugal. The latent variable labour involvement was composed by three measurement variables. The current literature results on studies that investigate similar relationships show conflicting results. The data obtained in the study showed no statistically significant differences in perception levels of labour involvement in female nurses, when compared with male nurses, for the context in question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze the perceptions expressed about issues related to cybersecurity and privacy of computer systems in Portugal. The study addresses the issue of gender equality, based on the malefemale dichotomy, using a perspective intrinsically related to a differential perceptions of bias. The research methodology adopts an approach that consists in the use of 10 measurement variables. From the statistical analysis of the results obtained, there is no unidirectional pattern in the data: according to the indicators, higher perceptions were detected for male subjects, for female subjects, or absence of statistically significant differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]