publication

Gendered institutions in global health

Authors:
Claire SOMERVILLE
2022

Claire Somerville uses the feminist concept of gendered institutions to view how labour is divided in global health. Her starting position is that global health and its constituent networks and institutions are gendered entities acting within a neoliberal environment, which helps explain why and how they are ordered. Her analysis helps explain why popular mechanisms to promote gender parity found within gender mainstreaming approaches can become co-opted and defanged by patriarchal institutions.