Can Gender Equality Make Us Healthier?
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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
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