Evidence for Action: Approaches to Advance Gender Equity From Around the Globe

Overview

<p>The goal of this funding opportunity is to translate and adapt knowledge from around the world to the United States on approaches that can improve health or the determinants of health by improving gender equity. In the United States, determinants of health relate to personal safety, economic opportunity, education access (post-secondary or beyond), supportive workplace and social environments, and protection from bias and discrimination for vulnerable groups. We are especially interested in understanding how to change systems, norms, and practices—such as patriarchy and heterosexism—that systematically disfavor women, girls, and other groups based on gender or sexual identity. Specifically, we seek to learn from initiatives underway outside the United States whose effectiveness is supported or suggested by empirical evidence and that have the potential to be adapted and implemented in the United States. Some examples of approaches of interest are those that aim to:</p> <ul> <li>Achieve pay equity;</li> <li>Provide supports in the workplace or other social environments for pregnant women, parents and families;</li> <li>Counteract cultural stereotypes or expectations that bias women and girls toward low-wage careers or health-damaging jobs or roles;</li> <li>Address norms, practices, and resources in ways that reduce gender-based violence, aggression, or harassment;</li> <li>Modify social expectations that promote risky behaviors or contribute to poor mental health;</li> <li>Build on frameworks about gender, power, and health from groups around the world who have unique traditions and practices related to gender norms and roles;</li> <li>Create opportunities for gender minorities to make decisions that affect their lives and communities, and to emerge as leaders in government and other positions of influence; or</li> <li>Apply nonbinary interpretations of gender in policymaking, resource allocation, or service provision.</li> </ul>