Episodes
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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 -
Missing episodes?
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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
