From gender bias to gender awareness in medical education

From gender bias to gender awareness in medical education.

Gender is an essential determinant of health and illness. Gender awareness in doctors contributes to equity and equality in health and aims towards better health for men and women. Nevertheless, gender has largely been ignored in medicine. First, it is stated that medicine was 'gender blind' by not considering gender whenever relevant. Secondly, medicine is said to be 'male biased' because the ...

Gender-Oriented Education: A New Approach to Gender Equity

The twentieth century can be considered the century of gender approaches. From extremist and one-sided movements to moderate and neutral schools of thought about gender, which have surrounded the last century and all of them had originated in achieving gender justice, but each has taken a different approach as a different definition of equity. The curriculum is no exception to this rule. The pu...

Medical gender bias and managed care.

Gender and sex: issues in medical education

There is ample scientific evidence to support the importance of gender issues in health and illness. If we fail to take such sex and gender differences sufficiently into account, this will affect the quality of health care provided to men and women, and this is precisely what good medical education means to prevent. In this paper examples are given that show how knowledge, attitudes and skills ...

Gender Awareness in ICT with Focus on Education

Introduction This paper describes the ongoing project Gender Awareness in ICT with Focus on Education. The first section of the paper presents the background to this study while the second section describes the pilot study carried out in April 2008 and outlines the preliminary findings. The main study will be carried out in Autumn 2008. This study is part of a larger project in the south-east o...