International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences. 16/jul/2021;34(4):340-1.

Gender Equity: Time to Act

Fausto J. Pinto

DOI: 10.36660/ijcs.20210183

This issue of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences comes at a time when the medical and scientific community are finally addressing an important issue that has been somehow neglected over the years. That is gender equity when dealing with health and scientific issues. This relates not only with the medical differences between genders in many clinical conditions, but also how gender equity is still an enormous issue when we are dealing with health care forces, payments, access to leading positions and many other aspects,1 , 2 including citations in high-impact journals

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