The 2016 Jhpiego Gender Analysis Toolkit is a practical guide for public health professionals seeking to understand how gender can impact health outcomes, both through service delivery and access to information and care. Its primary focus is sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health.
The purpose of the Gender Analysis Toolkit is to provide research questions to guide data collection when performing a project-level gender analysis. The Toolkit provides illustrative questions related to the five domains described in USAID’s Automated Directive System 205, which are: 1) Laws, regulations, and institutional practices; 2) Cultural norms and beliefs; 3) Gender roles, responsibilities, and time used; 4) Access to and control over assets and resources; and 5) Patterns of power and decision-making. The tool presents illustrative general and health area-specific questions organized in matrices related to different levels of the health system.
WUNRN continues to post this Global Gender Gap Index Report as it is widely referenced. WUNRN asks: How do rankings on rural and village women compare with those in cities? Why do women continue to be the majority of the poor in this world? Why do gender stereotypes still remain pervasive in behavioral contexts, marketing, media, advertising? In our globalized world, with widening disparities of poor and prosperous, why do patriarchy, profit, power still very much rule?
The Global Gender Gap Index was first introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006 as a framework for capturing the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracking their progress. This year is the 10th edition of the Index, allowing for time-series analysis on the changing patterns of gender equality around the world and comparisons between and within countries.
The Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education and health criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups. The rankings are designed to create greater awareness among a global audience of the challenges posed by gender gaps and the opportunities created by reducing them. The methodology and quantitative analysis behind the rankings are intended to serve as a basis for designing effective measures for reducing gender gaps.
World Environment Day 2016 – Sunday, June 5
http://arrow.org.my/five-indicators-of-climate-change-and-their-impact-on-women/
ARROW calls for elimination of social, political, & economic barriers to women’s rights, & assurance of gender equality & full participation of women in climate change processes.
In our modern societies, women and men are all continually exposed to hazardous chemicals in their every day lives. But women are often differently exposed due to their (entrenched) gender roles and because of biological susceptibilities and health impacts. WECF, an international network of civil society organisations working for a healthy environment and gender-just society in over 50 countries, presents a deeper look at the nexus between gender roles and women’s exposure to hazardous chemicals worldwide with its publication of “Women and Chemicals“. WECF looks at the impacts of e.g. highly hazardous pesticides, mercury, and endocrine disrupting chemicals on women’s health. Women and Chemicals was developed with support and expertise from the United Nations, civil society and scientific institutes.
Direct Link to Full 66-Page 2016 Publication:
http://www.wecf.eu/download/2016/March/WomenAndChemicals_PublicationIWD2016.pdfPress Releases
EIGE – European Institute for Gender Equality
Direct Link to Full 4-PAGE Gender Equality in Sport Fact Sheet:
http://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/mh0215937enn.pdf
