PHM-Exch> Patriarchy, masculinities and health inequalities (2+3)

[Claudio Schuftan]

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> From: Peter Somerville psomerville at lincoln.ac.uk
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>  Gender inequality is well known in health and public policy and it goes
> way beyond the crude stereotypes of masculinity and femininity mentioned
> here. Take just one example cited below, namely that countries with higher
> proportions of women in national parliaments use lower levels of violence in
> international crises - this could be, as suggested, because women are less
> inclined to violence, or it could be because countries that use lower levels
> of violence are more likely to elect women to political power.
>  Peter
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> While Peter is of course technically correct in suggesting that
> non-violence rather than gender equity may be the penultimate link in the
> causal chain that leads to political violence, the fact is that non-violence
> is itself a manifestation of the 'good' masculinities I'm advocating...
>
Alex

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