Table 5 Gender as a power relation and driver of inequity in health [33]
What constitutes gendered power relations | ||
|---|---|---|
Who has what | Access to resources (education, information, skills, income, employment, services, benefits, time, space, social capital etc.) | |
Who does what | Division of labour within and beyond the everyday practices | |
How are values defined | Social norms, ideologies, beliefs and perceptions | |
Who decides | Rules and decision-making (both formal and informal) | |
How power is negotiated and changed Individual/People | Critical consciousness, acknowledgement/lack of acknowledgement, agency/apathy, interests, historical and lived experiences, resistance or violence | |
Structural/environment | Legal and policy status, institutionalisation within planning and programs, funding, accountability mechanisms | |