HLTC02H3 Lecture Notes - Gender Analysis, Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Equality
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Lecture 4(3): gender analysis and gender-based analysis: gender mainstreaming, gender-based analysis (gba)- canada. Integration of women"s health issues in health policy and healthcare issues: federal plan for gender equality (1995) Same employment opportunities as men regardless of race. Emphasis on objectivity and not on about how women saw the world: aim: unbiased programs and policies. The need to look at the broader social contexts. Depoliticizing gender and worsened inequalities on gender: conceptual limitations of gba, conflation of sex and gender: Social, political and economic forces structure health outcomes for men and women. Lacks understanding of gender as a determinant of women"s and men"s health. 80s and 90s: focus on white women and also those in the middle- class and excluded outgroups. Women"s and men"s lives are effectively gendered and structure outcomes differently. Women were often rejected for jobs or careers b/c of their roles in the family: diversity/gender analysis, why do gender analysis.
