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View article: Insurance, Endometriosis and the use of medicinal cannabis in Australia: A qualitative analysis
Insurance, Endometriosis and the use of medicinal cannabis in Australia: A qualitative analysis Open
Background Endometriosis is a complex multi-systemic disease that costs Australia $9.7Bill per annum, 84% of this cost is workplace absenteeism and lost productivity. Public insurance coverage via Medicare is limited, so access to disabili…
View article: From Insight into Action: Understanding How Employer Perspectives Shape Endometriosis-Inclusive Workplace Policies
From Insight into Action: Understanding How Employer Perspectives Shape Endometriosis-Inclusive Workplace Policies Open
Background: Endometriosis costs Australia $9.7 billion AUD annually, with absenteeism and lost productivity mostly contributing to this cost burden. Previous research has shown how the absence of workplace support(s) for endometriosis symp…
View article: From Insight into Action: Understanding How Employer Perspectives Shape Endometriosis-Inclusive Workplace Policies
From Insight into Action: Understanding How Employer Perspectives Shape Endometriosis-Inclusive Workplace Policies Open
Endometriosis costs Australia $9.7 billion AUD annually, with most of the cost burden due to absenteeism and lost productivity. Previous research has shown how the absence of workplace support(s) for endometriosis symptom management exacer…
View article: Damned if you do, damned if you don’t? Misrepresentation and fraudulent non-disclosure consequences of Australians with endometriosis not disclosing cannabis use to life insurers.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t? Misrepresentation and fraudulent non-disclosure consequences of Australians with endometriosis not disclosing cannabis use to life insurers. Open
People with endometriosis in Australia predominantly use delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol cannabis flower and oil products, and cannabidiol preparations, to manage their symptoms, reporting reductions in use of other drugs. It is known that lo…
View article: “Suck it up and push through!” Exploring the experiences of women with endometriosis at work.
“Suck it up and push through!” Exploring the experiences of women with endometriosis at work. Open
Endometriosis affects an estimated 6–14% of women and people presumed female at birth, significantly impacting quality of life and workplace productivity. While research highlights that endometriosis pain and symptom management hinders car…
View article: Endometriosis and its effects on workplace absenteeism and presenteeism: disrupting inequality regimes
Endometriosis and its effects on workplace absenteeism and presenteeism: disrupting inequality regimes Open
Endometriosis symptoms, including persistent pelvic pain and fatigue, profoundly affect many people’s ability to undertake paid employment, globally the condition affects between 10-14% of women/those presumed female at birth. Despite its …
View article: Playing the Game Differently: How Women Leaders in Academia Are Challenging Neopatriarchy
Playing the Game Differently: How Women Leaders in Academia Are Challenging Neopatriarchy Open
Despite Australian and New Zealand Universities pledging to address gender inequities, the patriarchal history of universities continues to impact the careers of women in academia. Under-representation of women in senior leadership and a c…
View article: Menstrual pain & the economic purse: calculating and interrogating menstrual symptom productivity loss and the Australian economy
Menstrual pain & the economic purse: calculating and interrogating menstrual symptom productivity loss and the Australian economy Open
Globally rising female labour force participation represents one of the most noteworthy economic developments of the last century. Despite this increase, little is known about the individual and broader economic costs tied to working women…
View article: A survey of cost, access and outcomes for cannabinoid‐based medicinal product use by Australians with endometriosis
A survey of cost, access and outcomes for cannabinoid‐based medicinal product use by Australians with endometriosis Open
People with endometriosis use cannabis to manage their symptoms. This study aimed to identify costs, modes of administration, product composition, and self‐reported effectiveness for those accessing medicinal cannabis in Australia. There w…
View article: “Subjectivities, academic work and mothering practice”: Navigating obscure and unspoken disciplines
“Subjectivities, academic work and mothering practice”: Navigating obscure and unspoken disciplines Open
A robust and important body of scholarship is exploring the multiple and layered complexities of mothering and paid work. In this paper, we theoretically and empirically contribute to this work by exploring how, at the level of the self, w…
View article: Policies, Guidelines, and Practices Supporting Women’s Menstruation, Menstrual Disorders and Menopause at Work: A Critical Global Scoping Review
Policies, Guidelines, and Practices Supporting Women’s Menstruation, Menstrual Disorders and Menopause at Work: A Critical Global Scoping Review Open
(1) Objectives: This paper presents a scoping review of global evidence relating to interventions (i.e., policies, practices, guidelines, and legislation) aimed at supporting women to manage menstruation, menstrual disorders, and menopause…
View article: A New Palaeolithic Giant Handaxe from Britain: Initial Results from Excavations at Maritime Academy, Medway, Kent
A New Palaeolithic Giant Handaxe from Britain: Initial Results from Excavations at Maritime Academy, Medway, Kent Open
This paper will present initial results from excavations at Maritime Academy, Frindsbury which produced several handaxes, two of which can be classed as ‘giant handaxes’. Artefacts were recovered from fluvial deposits in the Medway Valley …
View article: Sexually harassed, assaulted, silenced, and now heard: Institutional betrayal and its affects
Sexually harassed, assaulted, silenced, and now heard: Institutional betrayal and its affects Open
This work explores the processes of sexual violence and its consequences, within an organizational context through a detailed examination of a professional woman's experience. By centralizing Sofia's lived experiences, we demonstrate how a…
View article: Getting Things Right; Diagnose and Design in The Evolution of Community Provisioning Systems
Getting Things Right; Diagnose and Design in The Evolution of Community Provisioning Systems Open
Climate change and a pandemic demonstrate that for most individuals, organisations and governments, it is the tensions that emerge between authoritarian regulatory control and small group independent self-organization, and between simple a…
View article: Gender equality mainstreaming and the Australian academy: paradoxical effects?
Gender equality mainstreaming and the Australian academy: paradoxical effects? Open
Australian Universities consistently rank highly on lists that celebrate the most gender equal higher education institutions in the world. Despite participation in institutional frameworks for gender equity accreditation, what often lies b…
View article: Artists on the edge of the world: An integrated approach to the study of Magdalenian engraved stone plaquettes from Jersey (Channel Islands)
Artists on the edge of the world: An integrated approach to the study of Magdalenian engraved stone plaquettes from Jersey (Channel Islands) Open
The Upper Palaeolithic is characterised by the appearance of iconographic expressions most often depicting animals, including anthropomorphic forms, and geometric signs. The Late Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian saw a flourishing of such dep…
View article: Increasing Parental Leave Uptake: A Systems Social Marketing Approach
Increasing Parental Leave Uptake: A Systems Social Marketing Approach Open
Ineffective paid paternity leave policies perpetuate gender inequality and have significant, long-lasting outcomes for families, organisations, and the economy. They maintain unequal divisions in child-rearing and household chores that res…
View article: ExerStart: helping seniors be active and independent for less
ExerStart: helping seniors be active and independent for less Open
Purpose The purpose of this research is to examine a downstream social marketing program that slows the typical decline in functional fitness and independence of adults over 55 with particular attention to the ROI and the efficiency of the…
View article: Iceland: how social mechanisms drove the financial collapse and why it’s a wicked problem
Iceland: how social mechanisms drove the financial collapse and why it’s a wicked problem Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the macro-social marketing approach by detailing a framework to better understand the driving forces of wicked problems. Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper that uses the fi…