Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient.

Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it

By: Sen, G. Ostlin, P. George, A
Published by: Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007
Via: Eldis

Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. The paper draws together evidence that identifies and explains what gender inequality and inequity mean in terms of differential exposures and vulnerabilities for women versus men, and also how health care systems and health research reproduce these inequalities and inequities instead of resolving them.

(http://www.siyanda.org/docs/WGEKN_sen_ostlin_george.pdf)