(Download) "Gender Equity: Promoting Healthy Outcomes." by Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Gender Equity: Promoting Healthy Outcomes.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 257 KB
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Introduction It has been assumed that progress on issues of gender parity, such as better educational and vocational opportunities and increased income would translate into better health outcomes for women. Certainly women's health has generally improved in nations where movements toward parity have occurred. The United Nations has used a gender-related development index, using life expectancy from birth, adult literacy rates, a gross enrollment ration of women to men in primary, secondary, and tertiary educational institutions, and estimated earned income, to determine the relative ranking of societies with regard to gender parity. The results have indicated that the greatest progress in gender parity has occurred among so-called developed nations, with the top 20 ranked societies for gender equality including nations from Europe, Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand (United Nations Development Programme 2006). Generally speaking, improvements in women's health have been attributed to greater educational opportunities leading to increased disposable income (e.g., Hill and Needham 2006). The life expectancy of women in nations in which progress in gender parity has been noted has increased over the last century and often exceeds that of men.