Gender studies

This toolkit aims to provide journalists with an understanding of gender issues, and of the roles and responsibilities of women and men in society, so that their reporting will be accurate and gender sensitive.

Summarizes the evidence about the relationship between gender inequality and health and safety problems related to work. It reviews gender issues in research, policies and programmes on occupational health and safety, and highlights some specific issues for women.

Presents case studies different countries that illustrate the importance of gender education for health professionals. Includes tips and strategies that can help expand professional perspectives to include gender-related social understandings of health and illness.

Dedicated to equality and seeks to eliminate descrimination of all kinds: sex, race, sexual orientation, age religion, national origin, disibility, and marital status. Advocate non-violence and work to eliminate social and economic injustice. Web site includes a research centre and the feminist Internet gateway.

Provides structures and processes that will enable gender to become an integral part of the work of enhancing health and health care at whatever level of policy or programme practice.

Examines the impact on women of funding social programs through the tax system.

Discusses gender, its social construction, and its impact on women and men's lives. It explains that the lives of women and men are shaped by norms and traditions which are, along with the ideas that underpin them, manifested in laws, institutions, economics and social structures, such as the family and the job market. But the gendered responsibilities and rewards of participation in society are not only different for women and men, they are usually inequitable. This analysis reveals the gendered bases of inequity and inequality to be powerful and pervasive. Yet, as the monograph makes clear, the concept of gender can also provide a catalyst for social and economic change. If the differing roles and responsibilities ascribed to men and women are socially constructed, then, by definition, they may be changed by society. Understanding the ways that gender is constructed can create a space within which women and men may envision different ways of being together.

Provides bibliographical references on the topic of bodies and gender in social science and humanities literature. The resources touch on topics such as cultural interpretations of the body, medicine and health, violence, race, sexuality, reproductive health, and the mind/body connection. File requires EndNote software.