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Podcast: Gender, health systems resilience and equity

June 11, 2024 No CommentsHayley Steward

‘Stories of Resilience – Local Lives and Health Systems’ is a podcast series from ReBUILD for Resilience. Each episode examines a different resilience-related topic, with a particular focus on fragile and shock-prone settings. In this second episode – ‘Gender, health systems resilience and equity‘ – we explore the intersection of gender and health systems in […]

Will the pandemic end gender inequality for parents?

October 6, 2021 No CommentsZoe DuckworthEditorial

Dr Jasmine Kelland, Peter Baker, Dr Myra Betron, Dr Deepshikha Chhetri, Dr Brendan Churchill, Prof Derek Griffith, Dr Sushmita Mukherjee and Dr Dominic Shattuck explore how parenting has shifted during the pandemic and whether this has led to marked benefits for families and society in general. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in millions of parents with […]

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2021

September 24, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The pandemic has tested and even reversed progress in expanding women’s rights and opportunities. Women have not recovered lost jobs and income, hunger is on the rise, and school closures threaten girls’ educational gains. Women’s participation in government, research, and resource management remains far from equal. Vulnerable groups of women, including migrants, those with disabilities, […]

Towards a gendered recovery in the European Union: Women and equality in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic

July 19, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has had multi-layered socioeconomic effects on women and girls. Women have faced a surge in gender-based violence, exacerbated by confinement, overcrowding and socioeconomic insecurity. During lock-downs, women who carried out essential tasks, such as nurses, midwives, cleaners, and carers had to be at the forefront risking their health and safety, while […]

COVID-19 and gender: A guide for adolesecents and young people

July 19, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

Practical guides for adolesecents and young people, and their parents and caregivers to see how gender can affect our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontline AIDS. (2020). COVID-19 and gender: A guide for adolesecents and young people.

Gender equality by 2045: reimagining a healthier future for women and girls

July 8, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The Generation Equality Forum in Paris on 30 June-2 July 2021 marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action on Women. The 1995 event was a milestone for advancing women’s rights,1 but it is disheartening that still not one country can claim to have achieved gender equality. By 2045 most global leaders will […]

Seizing the Generation Equality moment: An equitable recovery must leave no women behind

June 22, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The first session of the Generation Equality Forum, held in Mexico City this past March, marks the anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+25). Through the forum, governments, UN agencies, civil society organizations and others are working to advance global gender equality, […]

Yale researchers dig into EHR use data – and gender differences

Yale researchers dig into electronic health record use data – and gender differences

June 17, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

While the shift to electronic health records (EHR) in the medical profession was supposed to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare for doctors and patients alike, many physicians have given the technology low grades. A new Yale study digs into the data on how physicians are using EHRs, including how time spent using the […]

Policy foundations for transformation: a gender analysis of adolescent health policy documents in South Africa

June 17, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Global Strategy (2016–30) emphasize that all women, children and adolescents ‘survive, thrive and transform’. A key element of this global policy framework is that gender equality is a stand-alone goal as well as a cross-cutting priority. Gender inequality and intersecting social and structural determinants shape health […]

Gender gap in the Mediterranean during the Covid-19 pandemic

June 15, 2021 No Commentsmaggie

The goal of the e-book “Gender gap in the Mediterranean during the Covid-19 pandemic” is to analyze the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in the region. A correct understanding of the phenomenon is in fact the best prerequisite for the elaboration of a more targeted design of policies and to identify, consequently, strategic […]

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