Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health

https://www.thelancet.com/commissions-do/gender-and-health?dgcid=hubspot_email_infocusalerts-obgyn_feature_lancetgenderhealth25&utm_campaign=infocusalerts-obgyn&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9ApNNio3Bll34VAll7cBBAaepMlRyIFzFSLpWiLHD0v2RCHg0stMgNcuKupF8KeTQGYQtGcPPgkgYsdO6cqb2aVQxTRA&_hsmi=357394644&utm_content=356962125&utm_source=hs_email Achieving gender justice in global health—which the Lancet Commission on Gender and Global Health defines as encompassing the realisation of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender equality, while also addressing the drivers of gender-based discrimination and exclusion—would yield positive benefits for all people by improving health outcomes, reducing health inequities, and ensuring more inclusive and equitable global health workplaces and workforce governance. But progress on global health gender justice is unsatisfactory. Confusions and contestations around gender and gender equality profoundly affect how gender gets inadequately addressed in global health policies, programmes, and practices. This Commission aimed to identify ways in which health practitioners, policy makers, health researchers, and civil society could use more inclusive understandings of gender to improve policy and programme effectiveness and to achieve gender justice.