Gender equality and gender norms : framing the opportunities for health Geeta Rao Gupta, Nandini Oomman, Caren Grown, Kathryn Conn, Sarah Hawkes, Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Jeremy Shiffman, Kent Buse, Rekha Mehra, Chernor A. Bah, Lori Heise, Margaret E Greene, Ann M Weber, Jody Heymann, Katherine Hay, Anita Raj, Sarah Henry, Jeni Klugman, Gary L. Darmstadt, on behalf of the Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Steering Committee
By: Rao Gupta, Geeta [et al.]
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Contributor(s): Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Steering Committee.
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ArticleSeries: The Lancet; Gender Equality, Norms, and Health (The Lancet series).Publisher: The Lancet, 2019Subject(s): ATTITUDES | ECONOMIC ASPECTS | GENDER | GENDER EQUALITY | HEALTH | HUMAN RIGHTS | SOCIAL CHANGE | WORKPLACE | WOMENOnline resources: Read abstract | Access the series
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The Lancet, 2019, 393(10190): 2550-2562 (Gender Equality, Norms and Health 5)Summary: The Sustainable Development Goals offer the global health community a strategic opportunity to promote human rights, advance gender equality, and achieve health for all. The inability of the health sector to accelerate progress on a range of health outcomes brings into sharp focus the substantial impact of gender inequalities and restrictive gender norms on health risks and behaviours. In this paper, the fifth in a Series on gender equality, norms, and health, we draw on evidence to dispel three myths on gender and health and describe persistent barriers to progress. We propose an agenda for action to reduce gender inequality and shift gender norms for improved health outcomes,
calling on leaders in national governments, global health institutions, civil society organisations, academic settings,
and the corporate sector to focus on health outcomes and engage actors across sectors to achieve them; reform the
workplace and workforce to be more gender-equitable; fill gaps in data and eliminate gender bias in research; fund
civil-society actors and social movements; and strengthen accountability mechanisms. (Authors' abstract).
This is the fifth and last in a Series of five papers about gender equality, norms, and health.
The Series on Gender Equality, Norms, and Health is a collection of five papers, led by Gary Darmstadt and colleagues, that provides new analysis and insights into the impact of gender inequalities and norms on health, and the opportunities that exist within health systems, programmes, policies, and research to transform gender norms and inequalities. (From the website). For more information about the series, follow the link. Record #6336
The Lancet, 2019, 393(10190): 2550-2562 (Gender Equality, Norms and Health 5)
The Sustainable Development Goals offer the global health community a strategic opportunity to promote human rights, advance gender equality, and achieve health for all. The inability of the health sector to accelerate progress on a range of health outcomes brings into sharp focus the substantial impact of gender inequalities and restrictive gender norms on health risks and behaviours. In this paper, the fifth in a Series on gender equality, norms, and health, we draw on evidence to dispel three myths on gender and health and describe persistent barriers to progress. We propose an agenda for action to reduce gender inequality and shift gender norms for improved health outcomes,
calling on leaders in national governments, global health institutions, civil society organisations, academic settings,
and the corporate sector to focus on health outcomes and engage actors across sectors to achieve them; reform the
workplace and workforce to be more gender-equitable; fill gaps in data and eliminate gender bias in research; fund
civil-society actors and social movements; and strengthen accountability mechanisms. (Authors' abstract).
This is the fifth and last in a Series of five papers about gender equality, norms, and health.
The Series on Gender Equality, Norms, and Health is a collection of five papers, led by Gary Darmstadt and colleagues, that provides new analysis and insights into the impact of gender inequalities and norms on health, and the opportunities that exist within health systems, programmes, policies, and research to transform gender norms and inequalities. (From the website). For more information about the series, follow the link. Record #6336
