Gender inequality has wide-ranging and adverse implications for all of society. For this reason, the United Nations has made it a top priority to address this issue through the Sustainable ...Development Goals, which state that gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. "Gender Inequality and its Implications on Education and Health" explains the different implications of gender inequality and finds solutions to our most pressing issues. The authors of these collected studies show that though in various contexts around the globe, girls and women are discouraged and prevented from receiving quality education, proper health care, women empowerment and social justice, if this exclusion is eliminated it produces many additional socio-economic gains that benefit entire societies. Focusing largely on India to explore firstly the implications of gender inequality on education and health and then gender inequality and its implications to other SDGs, the chapters extend globally to analyse countries from Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe. Raising awareness among stakeholders and institutions to recognise the importance of gender inequality throughout the world and its various implications -- especially on education and health -- "Gender Inequality and its Implications on Education and Health" provides strategies to achieve gender equality.
Expresses concern at the absence of female speakers in the programme for the Mar 2018 New Zealand Association for General Surgeons (NZAGS) conference. Accuses the organisation and the profession of ...discriminating against female surgeons. Relays the response of the NZAGS President, in which he counters Rudland's assertions. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) identified patients report receiving substandard care from healthcare providers. They face the fear and disturbing reality of discrimination ...when accessing health care. Without culturally sensitive treatment, nursing and other health professions do not properly care for this population. Following the recent trend towards awareness and need for inclusion of LGBTQ populations in healthcare, this paper provides a summary of the current literature on the treatment and needs of LGBTQ people and describes focus groups conducted to explore perceptions regarding provider behaviors. It concludes with a list of behaviors that enhance or impede quality care that can serve as a guide for healthcare professionals.
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Reveals the bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment experiences of ophthalmology trainees in New Zealand and Australia. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, ...licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
After working as a clinician in brain injury rehabilitation for many years, it was evident that more men than women who sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) were engaged in rehabilitation programs. ...Much of the published literature exploring TBI is presented in a generic way, suggesting men's and women's experiences do not differ. After discussions with clinicians, brain injury advocacy organisations and the notable absence of gendered experience of TBI within the literature, the PhD project, titled "I AM WOMAN - What are the gendered issues for Australian women following traumatic brain injury?" was born. Consequently, this poster, which was displayed at the Nepean Blue Mountains local health district 4th Nursing and Midwifery Research and Practice Development Conference in 2017, and was incorporated into a presentation for the 27th Annual Australasian Rehabilitation Nurses Association National Conference in 2017, presents a published narrative review of the literature. The review explored what was available in regard to the health, activity and participation issues for women following TBI and revealed that the limited research that was available was predominantly from Canada. It highlighted that without a focused exploration of Australian women's experience of TBI, a generic discussion which was informed by more male participants in research would continue to take place. Without adding women's voices to the discourse there is the danger that rehabilitation, health and disability services asexualise people who sustain TBI.
This volume examines the complex nature and interplay of gender, careers and inequalities in the fields of medicine and medical education through interdisciplinary, comparative and critical ...perspectives. Scholars will bring insights from across disciplines of social sciences, including sociology, medical anthropology, psychology, and HRM.
This collection responds to recent developments in Gender Medicine and the literary and cultural history of medicine. Bringing together scholars from Medical and Humanities departments, it uses case ...studies to investigate the gendered construction of disease from medieval times until today. The influence of gender on the creation of medical knowledge is now recognized within various branches of the medical field: genetic research, therapy, and investigations into biologically versus life style induced types of disease. In British and American literary and cultural studies, the narrative, dramatic and cinematic representation of diseases and medical knowledge and practice, as well as the cultural history of gender-specific diseases, have long been a thriving areas of research. The collection intervenes in these debates by reexamining gendered cultural patterns of representing or responding to disease, and the gender confusions that result when such patterns are disrupted.
For women, medicine came to offer not just treatment in the event of illness but the possibilities of participation in medical practise, of shaping social policies and political understandings, and ...of altering the biological imperatives of their bodies. The essays in this collection explore various ways in which women responded to these challenges and opportunities and sought to use the power of modernising Western medicine to further their individual and gender interests.
Este libro se revisan los diversos debates y enfoques de los temas relacionados con el género en el contexto de la reestructuración del sector salud de los países en desarrollo a partir de los ...primeros años del decenio de 1980. Se traza primero la cronología de los distintos enfoques de la reforma del sector salud (RSS), sus vínculos con el contexto macroeconómico y político y los distintos tipos de análisis de género asociados a ellos. A continuación, se examinan las consideraciones conceptuales y metodológicas relacionadas con el género que surgen de los diferentes enfoques. Por último, se comienza a formular un marco conceptual/político para el género y la RSS que proporciona una mayor contextualización de ambos.
