Episodes
Published 10/17/22
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/
Published 10/17/22
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
Published 09/18/22
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:...
Published 08/18/22
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
Published 07/18/22
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...
Published 06/18/22