Community Scoop » Midwives Union Challenging DHBs Excluding GPs As Comparator In Pay Equity Claim
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ACCESS to healthcare is part of our basic right to a life of dignity. Despite its universality, healthcare and its denial are felt along lines of class, gender, sexuality, religion, race/ethnicity, (dis)ability and often an intersection of all these. The healthcare system itself reproduces inequalities and systems of oppression that undergird society through inaccessibility and skewed priorities.
Throughout history, the centre of medical research and the reference point for medicine was men’s bodies. In clinical research, women are overwhelmingly underrepresented in trials for medicines and treatments. For instance, while women make up over half of the 35 million people living with HIV worldwide, most trials for treatments focus on men despite the fact that women respond differently to the infection as well as the drugs administered for treatment. This fundamental exclusion on the basis of sex at the starting point of health
Press Release – PSA The collective efforts of working women are reducing the gender pay gap, but there is a long way to go yet; particularly for Mori, Pasefika and Asian women. As Public Service Association members mark International Womens Day the union says there …
The collective efforts of working women are reducing the gender pay gap, but there is a long way to go yet; particularly for Māori, Pasefika and Asian women.
As Public Service Association members mark International Women’s Day the union says there is much to celebrate.
“Progress was not just handed down from above, working people are still campaigning to make it happen. The PSA has pushed through pay equity claims for mostly female professions like DHB admin workers, Oranga Tamariki social workers, and home care & support workers,” says PSA National Secretary Kerry Davies.