Seminar Recording: Why Gender Data Matters in Public Health

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Seminar Recording: Why Gender Data Matters in Public Health

1 hour 30 minutes

This seminar starts with an overview about gender data and why it matters, and then moves into a moderated panel of regional experts discussing how the lack of gender health data has affected them and their respective communities.

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Key takeaways

Gender is a social and cultural construct that includes expectations about masculinity and femininity; sex refers to the biological and physiological reality of being males or females.
Gender equity refers to differential treatment that positively addresses a bias or disadvantage due to gender roles or norms or differences between the sexes. Gender equity may involve the use of temporary special measures to compensate for historical or systemic bias or discrimination.
Gender data gaps affect the health of real people and real communities, with vulnerable and underserved communities the hardest hit by gender inequities.

This seminar first aired live January 28th, 2022.

Speakers:

Emily Courey Pryor and Neeraja Penumetcha, Data2x.org
Srilatha Batliwala, CREA, India
Adela Andrea Gonzalez Pacheco, Co-Founder Nuestra Flow, Colombia
Nachale (Hua) Boonyapisomparn, Transgender Activist and Feminist Movement Builder, Thailand
Leigh Ann Van Der Merwe, S.H.E. Feminist Collective, S. Africa

Gender norms and stereotypes affect not only our health needs, exposure to health risks, and health-seeking behavior, but are also inextricably linked to health systems affecting how healthcare is delivered, the quality of care provided, who has access to it, how it is financed, as well as the policy and governance behind it all. Health systems, such as civil registries and mobile phone health data surveillance, need to be guided by complete, clean sex and gender-inclusive data in order to ensure all people’s health needs are considered in decision-making.

Right now, we only have a partial snapshot of the lives of women and non-binary people and the constraints and inequalities they face because of gaps in gender health data worldwide. In this seminar, we hear an overview about gender data and why it matters, and then move into a moderated panel of regional experts discussing how the lack of gender health data has affected them and their respective communities.

There are 51 gender-specific indicators across the 17 SDGs (sustainable development goals). Most gender data has only been collected once, and that more than 10 years ago.

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ColombiaGender BasicsIndiaSouth AfricaThailand

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