WGST 1F90 Lecture : Women and Health
13 Mar 2012
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Key terms: politics of the body and the personal is political, hierarchies, double standards in health, gender and sex, pathologization, marginalization, victim blaming, androcentric/phallocentric, maternal mortality. Canada: women also constitute those who do the unpaid health care work and the vast majority of the paid health care workers (psw, health care aids, rns, rpns, medical secretaries, technicians, etc. ) Health research has been plagued by three main forms of bias in research, delivery of health programs and access: maintenance of existing hierarchies, failing to examine differences, use of double standards for women"s health. For example, women doctor"s tend to be younger and have less authority than their male counterparts: racialized and newcomer women tend to participate less than white women or white men when making decisions about their own health. Double standard: a double standard involves treating an identical or substantially equal situation, trait or behavior differently based upon race, gender, ability, etc. , (i. e. sexual double standard).
