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Where do we go from here?
Can better reproductive health make us more equal?
Can Female Politicians Make us Healthier?
Why aren’t men and women equal?
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What’s next and where do we go from here? As development practitioners and public health professionals, how do we make our work more gender equal? Wild Network: https://www.wildleadershipforum.org/
How society treats a woman during pregnancy and childbirth is a signal of women’s status in society. Do we value maternal health as integral to the health of our communities? DHS Survey Nigeria 2008: https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-fr222-dhs-final-reports.cfm DHS Survey Nigeria 2013: https://dhsprogram.com/publications/publication-fr293-dhs-final-reports.cfm
For a long time, women in politics wasn’t a thing. People like Merkel, Marin, May, Sirleaf, and Arden have given us a vision for women as decision makers. Will more female politicians in positions of power make our societies healthier? Maternal Mortality & Political Participation Reserach: https://docs.iza.org/dp11590.pdf Yentl Syndrome: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199107253250408 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/CSW/PFA_E_Final_WEB.pdf Consolidating Democracy in Pakistan: https://www.dai.com/our-work/projects/pakistan-consolidating-democracy-in-pakistan-cdip DHS Survey Pakistan 2012-13: https://www.biomedcentral.com/search?query=author%23Khalifa%20Elmusharaf DHS Survey Pakistan 2017-18: https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR354/FR354.pdf
If there’s a gap between men and women, how do we know that empirically? How can we measure it? And what stands in the way of men and women being more equal? The most recent GII was published in the 2021 Human Development Index report, p.291 https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/global-report-document/hdr2021-22pdf_1.pdf Gender & Social Norms Index: https://hdr.undp.org/system/files/documents/hdperspectivesgsnipdf_1.pdf
Most of us agree that equality is a good thing, but is there more than a moral argument for making our societies more equal? Can gender equality actually make our communities and countries healthier? Violence Against Women During COVID-19, UN Women: https://data.unwomen.org/publications/vaw-rga World Inequality Report, 2022, from the World Inequality Lab: https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2022/03/0098-21_WIL_RIM_RAPPORT_A4.pdf Association between gender inequality and population-level health outcomes: Panel data analysis of organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, the Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00331-X/fulltext The GINI Index, World Bank: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI