The writer a researcher in gender and digital rights.
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.
Posted on March 7th, 2021
By Gitanjali Marcelline/newsin.asia
International Women’s Day, originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year. The UN theme for Women’s Day in 2021 is Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”. The theme celebrates the tremendous efforts made by women and girls around the world to make the post-COVID-19 world more equal than it has been so far.
The way I see it, equality begins at home with the responsibility of raising the children and doing household chores shared equally between husband and wife. Currently, in most households, there is a major disparity in this area, mainly due to stereotyping and patriarchal attitudes, where the husbands are of the firm belief that it is the wives sole responsibility to raise the children and attend to housework.
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On Women’s Day, groups decry joblessness, hunger, rights violations
Women rights activists and advocates march to Mendiola to commemorate the International Working Women’s Day 2021. (Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat)
On International Women’s Day, progressive groups said the Philippine government is battling the impacts of the COVID-19 as if it were only yesterday that the pandemic began.
By REIN TARINAY and JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
MANILA – Filipino progressives marched to Mendiola, a stone throw away from the presidential palace today, International Women’s Day, to decry the rampant joblessness, hunger, poverty, and human rights violations as the Philippine government continues to grapple with the impacts of the pandemic, a women’s group said.
Tribby Warfield, formerly of Kaman Industrial Technologies Corporation
Linda Miller, B&D Industrial
Elizabeth (Liz) Moon, Kaman Industrial Technologies Corporation
Pat Wheeler, Motion (Canada).
These deserving women have made their way in the power transmission/motion control industry (PT/MC) and contributed to the industry’s success.
The Wendy B. McDonald Award is presented annually, when merited. Nominations are now being accepted through June 11, 2021, and will be judged by the following criteria:
Nominees must be female and employed by a PTDA member company within the calendar year for which the nomination is being made.
Nominees must exemplify leadership and integrity in all business relationships.