Geography, Health and Sustainability

Gender Matters Globally
Herausgeber: Williams, Allison; Luginaah, Isaac

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Produktbeschreibung

With a global commitment to achieve gender equality by 2030, the SDGs present a historic opportunity to place gender as central to human progress across the globe. Gender equality, which requires the empowerment of all women and girls, is an explicit goal, in addition to being a fundamental prerequisite to and facilitator of most other SDGs. This edited collection provides a range of geographical and geospatial insights, from a variety of disciplinary and country-specific perspectives, to better understand gender and sustainable development. In addition to several African countries, Mexico, Japan, Canada, USA, and Cambodia are featured. A range of topical case studies examine women's domestic and care work, including water collection, breastfeeding, food purchasing, and caring for elderly family members. Access to health care services is examined in the case of breast screening and antenatal care. Women's engagement in the labour force is also addressed, with a specific look at the renewable energy sector; structural barriers to employment are discussed across a number of chapters, with clear strategies to break through these barriers. Finally, theoretical insights are proposed in better understanding and engaging in gendered inequalities in health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780367743901
• ISBN-10: 0367743906
• Artikelnr.: 62271054

Autorenporträt

Allison Williams is Professor in the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster University. She is trained as a health geographer in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research. She leads a partnership grant to create carer-inclusive workplaces. Isaac Luginaah is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Western Ontario and member of the College of The Royal Society of Canada. His research interests include environment and health, population health, and GIS applications in health.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part 1. SDG 5: Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women
and Girls; 2. Gender, Adolescents, and Achieving Sustainable Development
Goals in Ghana; 3. Sustainable Development Goals and the Internal Logics of
'Gender Equality' in the Liberian Context; 4. Global Trends in Women's
Employment in Renewable Energy: Continuities, Disruptions and
Contradictions; 5. Producing Gender Statistics at Local Level: The Case of
Mito-city, Japan; Part 2. Target 5.4: Value Unpaid Care and Promote Shared
Domestic Responsibilities; 6. Gender Statistics, Geospatial Analysis and
Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Mexico; 7. Understanding
Women's Unpaid Work and Domestic Work: Using Photovoice to Capture
Immigrant Carer-employee Experiences in Southern Ontario, Canada; 8.
Resource insecurity and gendered inequalities in health: a challenge to
sustainable livelihood; 9. "Today men's orientation has changed": gender
and household water and sanitation responsibilities in Ghana; 10. Canvas
Totes and Plastic Bags: The Political Ecology of Food Assistance
Effectiveness at Farmers' Markets in Minneapolis-St Paul, USA; Part 3.
Target 5.6: Universal Access to Reproductive Health and Rights; 11.
Internal Migration as a Determinant of Antenatal Care in the Brong-Ahafo
Region, Ghana: Does Length of Residence Matter?; 12. Longitudinal analysis
of progress in women's empowerment and maternal mortality outcomes:
evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa; 13. Mental Health, Quality of Life and
Life Experiences of Ghanaian Women Living with Breast Cancer; 14.
Event-History Analysis of Determinants of Breastfeeding in Cambodia:
Evident from Demographic and Health Survey; 15. The World We Want: The
Development We Want