Gender equality and gender norms

framing the opportunities for health

Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Steering Committee

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Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goals offer the global health community a strategic opportunity to promote human rights, advance gender equality, and achieve health for all. The inability of the health sector to accelerate progress on a range of health outcomes brings into sharp focus the substantial impact of gender inequalities and restrictive gender norms on health risks and behaviours. In this paper, the fifth in a Series on gender equality, norms, and health, we draw on evidence to dispel three myths on gender and health and describe persistent barriers to progress. We propose an agenda for action to reduce gender inequality and shift gender norms for improved health outcomes, calling on leaders in national governments, global health institutions, civil society organisations, academic settings, and the corporate sector to focus on health outcomes and engage actors across sectors to achieve them; reform the workplace and workforce to be more gender-equitable; fill gaps in data and eliminate gender bias in research; fund civil-society actors and social movements; and strengthen accountability mechanisms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2550-2562
Number of pages13
JournalThe Lancet
Volume393
Issue number10190
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 22 2019

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Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Steering Committee (2019). Gender equality and gender norms: framing the opportunities for health. The Lancet, 393(10190), 2550-2562. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30651-8

Gender equality and gender norms : framing the opportunities for health. / Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Steering Committee.

In: The Lancet, Vol. 393, No. 10190, 22.06.2019, p. 2550-2562.

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Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Steering Committee 2019, 'Gender equality and gender norms: framing the opportunities for health', The Lancet, vol. 393, no. 10190, pp. 2550-2562. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30651-8
Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Steering Committee. Gender equality and gender norms: framing the opportunities for health. The Lancet. 2019 Jun 22;393(10190):2550-2562. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30651-8
Gender Equality, Norms, and Health Steering Committee. / Gender equality and gender norms : framing the opportunities for health. In: The Lancet. 2019 ; Vol. 393, No. 10190. pp. 2550-2562.
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