Tung Thanh Le

PLOS ONE, Aug 2023 Gender inequality and women’s empowerment are two closely related issues. While the gender inequality index has been assessed by different studies, that of women’s empowerment remained limited. In the present work, we attempted to evaluate the women’s empowerment index by comparing it with the male partner’s empowerment index in the same household. We used the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) as a framework for reference.

Characteristics of research samples The samples were divided almost equally by gender in which women accounted for 48.3% and men accounted for 51.7% of respondents. The average distance from respondents’ houses to the nearest urban area was 19.1 km, ranging from 4 to 40 km. The average income per household/month is 3.8 million VND (about 200 USD/month). The average age at first marriage of men (20.7 years old) was higher than that of women (19.3 years old) (p = 0.00).

The COVID-19 vaccine R&D landscape has developed at unprecedented scale and speed since our initial analysis in April identified 115 candidates in the pipeline (Nat. Rev. Drug Discov. 19, 305–306; 2020). In this updated overview, we focus on candidates in clinical trials and provide some initial perspectives on their clinical development.