More Women Must Lead in Global Health: A Focus on Strategies to Empower Women Leaders and Advance Gender Equality

Despite comprising 70% of the health workforce, women fill only 25% of senior and 5% of top health organization positions. Greater diversity in global health leadership, particularly greater representation of women, is essential to ensure diverse perspectives and ideas inform policies and priorities...

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Autores principales: Batson, Amie, Gupta, Geeta Rao, Barry, Michele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2021
Materias:
Expert Consensus Document
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8284502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34307070
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3213
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description Despite comprising 70% of the health workforce, women fill only 25% of senior and 5% of top health organization positions. Greater diversity in global health leadership, particularly greater representation of women, is essential to ensure diverse perspectives and ideas inform policies and priorities. Interviews and literature reviews surfaced many of the key challenges that women in global health face at individual, organizational and societal levels. Initiatives working to advance women’s leadership are encouraged to consider 5 key priorities that address these challenges.
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spelling pubmed-82845022021-07-23 More Women Must Lead in Global Health: A Focus on Strategies to Empower Women Leaders and Advance Gender Equality Batson, Amie Gupta, Geeta Rao Barry, Michele Ann Glob Health Expert Consensus Document Despite comprising 70% of the health workforce, women fill only 25% of senior and 5% of top health organization positions. Greater diversity in global health leadership, particularly greater representation of women, is essential to ensure diverse perspectives and ideas inform policies and priorities. Interviews and literature reviews surfaced many of the key challenges that women in global health face at individual, organizational and societal levels. Initiatives working to advance women’s leadership are encouraged to consider 5 key priorities that address these challenges. Ubiquity Press 2021-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8284502/ /pubmed/34307070 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3213 Text en Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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