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Week 9 - Gender Transformative Health Promotion - Coggle Diagram
Week 9 - Gender Transformative Health Promotion
Becoming gender transformative is an iterative process that goes beyond the simple notion of "gender equality".
Many existing programs and policies strive for gender blindness- but ignoring the disproportionate inequities faced by women and gender-diverse individuals only further exacerbates these challenges.
Gender unequal, to gender blind, to gender equitable, to gender transformative
Gender blindness = unhelpful
Allows for the questioning of inequitable structures and norms as well as negative power dynamics that seek to uphold the patriarchy, and transforming these structures into more inclusive ones.
Reformulating patriarchal perspectives
Inserting inclusivity
In order to truly address gender in health promotion, structural and social paradigms surrounding gender must be tackled to ensure lasting, sustainable change.
Expanding the area of "women's" studies to "gender" studies, holding space for both and bridging concepts of the two together
Alongside women-specific issues
Drawing from similar inequities
Acknowledging differences in experiences
Dismantling of the social construction of differences between men and women
Gender roles
Imposed by the patriarchy
Breaking down perceived advantages and disadvantages of each gender
Most, if not all inequities (both social inequities and health inequities) can be viewed from a gender-centered lens, and act in tandem with gender-related determinants.
Highlighting and prioritizing gender equity when discussing intersecting inequities
Intersectionality
Differential impacts
gender-related determinants of health are negatively impacted by existing social and health inequities- these impacts are also further exacerbated by said inequities
Inequitable systems perpetuate subjugation
Intersectionality
Wicked problems
Health promotion planning must center gender determinants at every step of the process- from their design to implementation.
Align with gender transformative frameworks- by designing programming that adheres to and expands on principles of gender equity
Established principles
Design with gender determinants prioritized
Directly address and attempt to dismantle gender norms, rather than indirect approaches
Root cause
Systems that enable gender inequity are highly complex, and often need to be tackled from a number of different lenses.
Complex systems problems require complexity-informed design - solutions meant to tackle these issues need to be able to approach multiple levels of the system, from individual components to larger organizational elements.
Replacing overarching worldviews with nuance
Multi-sectoral partnerships are key to building networks of interventions that sustain each other, that build on different aspects of gender transformative frameworks
Interdisciplinarity
Collaboration