Join us in our Gender Equal Health & Care Workforce Initiative
The Government of France, the World Health Organization and Women in Global Health are partnering in 2021- the International Year of Health and Care Workers- on the Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce Initiative (GEHCWI). This Initiative aims to increase visibility, dialogue, and commitment to action on gender equity in the health and care workforce alongside the UN Women Generation Equality Campaign to accelerate gender equality and mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
Gender equity in the health and care sector builds a strong foundation for health systems, universal health coverage (UHC) and global health security. The Gender Equal Health and Care Workforce Initiative (GEHCWI) will convene the international community to implement existing global commitments and agree on practical steps to achieve gender equity in the health and care workforce.
The Initiative aims to drive action in the health and care sector under four pillars:
COVID 50/50
A Campaign for a Gender Responsive Approach to Health Security
We ask that YOU to join us, add your voice and
Engage! Enable! And Ignite Action!
Bringing Women's and Men's Health Advocacy Together
As organizations work for men's and women's health, we joined the Gender and COVID-19 Working Group to share resources, data, and solutions as the virus took hold. We have to understand in a new way that our common interests lie in the development of a gender responsive health system that identifies and meets the health needs of all genders.
Excerpt from article published in BMJ Opinion 2 July 2022 "Our response to covid-19 must not be gender blind nor a gender battle". The covid-19 pandemic has underscored how gender responsive health systems are a crucial path forward, say Peter Baker, Ann Keeling, Arush Lal, Chadia Wannous, and Mahesh Puri
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 NEW: Closing the Leadership Gap |  Close the Leadership Gap |  Close the Leadership Gap |
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 WGH joins the GAVI CSO Steering Committee |  The 74th World Health Assembly, Gender Parity |  Keep the Promise |
 We fought — and won — to keep women’s rights on the agenda in 2019 |  Vaccine Equity |  Gender Equality & UHC |
 Women in Global Health Security Summit |  |  WGH joins the ACT-Accelerator |
 Commit to Action 1 |  WGH Joins the UHC2030 Partnership |  World Health Assembly Chief Delegates over Time |
 A call to action on gender equality |  Heroines of Health 2019 |  Racism is a Global Health Issue. |
 Heroines of Health UNGA 2019 |  WGH Africa Regional Hub Launch |  Doing Things Differently |
 Women of Excellence |  Delivered by Women, Led By Men Report (2019) |  Women Leaders in Global Health Conference 2019 |
GENDER EQUALITY NEWS
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
WOMEN ARE ON THE FRONTLINES IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19
(Featuring Interview with Roopa Dhatt)
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