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Join IAPBThis webinar covers applying an intersectionality lens – the way factors such as race, class, gender, and other identities combine to affect lived experiences differently – to ensure we illuminate, track and monitor inequities in eye health.
Date: Thursday, 25th November 2021
Globally, women face more barriers in accessing health care. Although women make up 70% of the health workforce, they hold only 25% of senior roles. We know that under-representation of women in decision making positions limits the acceptability of services for women, further exacerbating the gap in access and uptake of services.
Health systems will be stronger and outcomes more equitable when the women who deliver them have an equal say in the design of national health plans, policies and systems. Stakeholders at every level have a role to play in the path towards a more equitable future: in how people access services, how they are delivered, by whom and who is making decisions around such activities and resources distribution.
The event focused on the intersection between vision, gender and climate change and our call for the urgent need to dismantle sociocultural barriers that contribute to keeping women and girls trapped in poverty.
Sumrana Yasmin explains why gender equity is important in eye care.
Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on why it's important we place women and girls at the centre of eye health.
