Gita Sen
Biographic Data
| ID | 155107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gita Sen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gita |
| FAMILY NAME | Sen |
| SIGNATURE | SEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9010-074X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 181 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Marketing of commercial milk formula: A system to capture parents, communities, science, and policy
Despite proven benefits, less than half of infants and young children globally are breastfed in accordance with the recommendations of WHO. In comparison, commercial milk formula (CMF) sales have increased to about US$55 billion annually, with more infants and young children receiving formula products than ever. This Series paper describes the CMF marketing playbook and its influence on families, health professionals, science, and policy processe…
A summative content analysis of how programmes to improve the right to sexual and reproductive health address power
INTRODUCTION: Power shapes all aspects of global health. The concept of power is not only useful in understanding the current situation, but it is also regularly mobilised in programmatic efforts that seek to change power relations. This paper uses summative content analysis to describe how sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programmes in low-income and middle-income countries explicitly and implicitly aim to alter relations of power. METHODS: …
A scoping review of the impact of organisational factors on providers and related interventions in LMICs: Implications for respectful maternity care
We have limited understanding of the organisational issues at the health facility-level that impact providers and care as it relates to mistreatment in childbirth, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). By extension, it is not clear what types of facility-level organisational changes or changes in working environments in LMICs could support and enable respectful maternity care (RMC). While there has been relatively more attention…
Asha Kirana: When digital technology empowered front-line health workers
This practice paper describes our experience of implementing accredited social health activists (ASHA) Kirana, a digital technology-enabled Maternal Clinical Assessment Tool (M-CAT) and how the ASHAs felt empowered in the process. M-CAT aimed to train ASHAs to collect data that assists doctors in identifying maternal risks, in Karnataka, India. Systematic clinical assessment is not common in rural public health institutions. High caseloads, a ten…
When accountability meets power: Realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights
This paper addresses a critical concern in realizing sexual and reproductive health and rights through policies and programs – the relationship between power and accountability. We examine accountability strategies for sexual and reproductive health and rights through the lens of power so that we might better understand and assess their actual working. Power often derives from deep structural inequalities, but also seeps into norms and beliefs, i…
The SDGs and Feminist Movement Building
This discussion paper views the whys and hows of feminist engagement with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a broader context: the key UN-related processes from the time women began getting involved with them in the 1970s. This contextual analysis for the period from the 1970s up to 2010 illuminates a central argument of the paper: namely, that feminist movement building is not a simple volitional act but is enmeshed in the fluxes and c…
Beyond measurement: The Drivers of Disrespect and Abuse in Obstetric Care
Concerns about disrespect and abuse (D&A) experienced by women during institutional birth have become critical to the discourse on maternal health. The rapid growth of the field from diverse points of origin has given rise to multiple and, at times, confusing interpretations of D&A, pointing to the need for greater clarity in the concepts themselves. Furthermore, attention to measurement of the problem has been excessive when viewed in relation t…
Addressing disrespect and abuse during childbirth in facilities
Adapting maternal health practice to co-morbidities and social inequality: A systematic approach
Progress of the world’s women 2015–2016: Transforming economies, realizing rights
Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016 sets out a vision of a global economy fit for women: providing key elements of a far-reaching new policy agenda, one rooted in the human rights framework, that bring rights -- the right of all women to a good job, with equal pay and safe working conditions; the right to an adequate pension; the right to healthcare, and water and sanitation -- into economic policymaking and transform economies with women's r…
Gender Equality in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Lessons from the MDGs
This article addresses some central issues for the Post-2015 Development Agenda from a Southern perspective on gender equality and women’s human rights. To answer this question, it first examines what lessons can be learned from the decade or so of implementation of the MDGs. The article focuses on two ‘meso’ challenges: breaking down issue silos, and integration/participation. It argues that progress towards gender equality will depend on whethe…
Women and Health: The key for sustainable development
Advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in low- and middle-income countries: Implications for the post-2015 global development agenda
The papers and commentaries in this special issue illuminate progress made by low- and middle-income countries towards implementation of the Programme of Action (PoA) agreed by 179 countries during the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994. The PoA presents a path-breaking sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) framework for global and national population and health policies. While progress towards impl…
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) argues that social contracts must be recreated if they are to fulfil the promise of human rights. In The Remaking of Social Contracts, leading thinkers and activists address a wide range of concerns - global economic governance, militarism, ecological tipping points, the nation state, movement-building, sexuality and reproduction, and religious fundamentalism. These themes are of wide-rangi…
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the post-2015 development agenda
Women's health is currently shaped by the confluence of two important policy trends - the evolution of health system reform policies and from the early 1990s onwards, a strong articulation of a human rights-based approach to health that has emphasised laws and policies to advance gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The drive for sexual and reproductive rights represents an inclusive trend towards human rights to …
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in changing health systems
Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are centrally important to health. However, there have been significant shortcomings in implementing SRHR to date. In the context of health systems reform and universal health coverage/care (UHC), this paper explores the following questions. What do these changes in health systems thinking mean for SRHR and gender equity in health in the context of renewed calls for increased investments in the hea…
No Empowerment without Rights, No Rights without Politics: Gender-equality, MDGs and the post-2015 Development Agenda
The main argument of this paper is that progress towards gender equality and women's empowerment in the development agenda requires a human rights-based approach, and requires support for the women's movement to activate and energize the agenda. Both are missing from Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3. Empowerment requires agency along multiple dimensions—sexual, reproductive, economic, political, and legal. However, MDG 3 frames women's empower…
Deciphering Rashomon: An approach to verbal autopsies of maternal deaths
The paper discusses an approach to verbal autopsies that engages with the Rashomon phenomenon affecting ex post facto constructions of death and responds to the call for maternal safety. This method differs from other verbal autopsies in its approach to data collection and its framework of analysis. In our approach, data collection entails working with and triangulating multiple narratives, and minimising power inequalities in the investigation p…
Gender Equality in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Lessons from the MDGs
This article addresses some central issues for the Post-2015 Development Agenda from a Southern perspective on gender equality and women's human rights. To answer this question, it first examines what lessons can be learned from the decade or so of implementation of the MDGs. The article focuses on two ‘meso’ challenges: breaking down issue silos, and integration/participation. It argues that progress towards gender equality will depend on whethe…
Breaking through the development silos: Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Millennium Development Goals and gender equity - experiences from Mexico, India and Nigeria
Who gains, who loses and how: Leveraging gender and class intersections to secure health entitlements
Integrating Family Planning with Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: The Past as Prologue
A response to Bates, Hankivsky and Springer on the WHO Knowledge Network on Women and Gender Equity Commission on Social Determinants of Health
Health inequalities: Gendered puzzles and conundrums. The 10th Annual Sol Levine Lecture on Society and Health, October 6, 2008
A Methodology to Analyse the Intersections of Social Inequalities in Health
An important issue for health policy and planning is the way in which multiple sources of disadvantage, such as class, gender, caste, race, ethnicity, and so forth, work together to influence health. Although ‘intersectionality’ is a topic for which there is growing interest and evidence, several questions as yet remain unanswered. These gaps partly reflect limitations in the quantitative methods used to study intersectionality in health, even th…
"Accumulation, Reproduction, and "Women's Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited
Who gains, who loses and how: Leveraging gender and class intersections to secure health entitlements
A Methodology to Analyse the Intersections of Social Inequalities in Health
An important issue for health policy and planning is the way in which multiple sources of disadvantage, such as class, gender, caste, race, ethnicity, and so forth, work together to influence health. Although ‘intersectionality’ is a topic for which there is growing interest and evidence, several questions as yet remain unanswered. These gaps partly reflect limitations in the quantitative methods used to study intersectionality in health, even th…
Class and Gender Inequalities and Women's Role in Economic Development: Theoretical and Practical Implications
Although problems faced by Third World women in their social and economic lives have gotten more attention from developmental agencies in the past decade there has been insufficient attention paid to respecting womens economic and reproductive rights. It is necessary to examine the interaction of class formation and gender relations in order to understand the nature of womens subordination and to change societies to make them more egalitarian. Ch…
No Empowerment without Rights, No Rights without Politics: Gender-equality, MDGs and the post-2015 Development Agenda
The main argument of this paper is that progress towards gender equality and women's empowerment in the development agenda requires a human rights-based approach, and requires support for the women's movement to activate and energize the agenda. Both are missing from Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3. Empowerment requires agency along multiple dimensions—sexual, reproductive, economic, political, and legal. However, MDG 3 frames women's empower…
Gender Mainstreaming in Finance Ministries
Beyond measurement: The Drivers of Disrespect and Abuse in Obstetric Care
Concerns about disrespect and abuse (D&A) experienced by women during institutional birth have become critical to the discourse on maternal health. The rapid growth of the field from diverse points of origin has given rise to multiple and, at times, confusing interpretations of D&A, pointing to the need for greater clarity in the concepts themselves. Furthermore, attention to measurement of the problem has been excessive when viewed in relation t…
Development, Crises and Alternative Visions. Third World Women's Perspectives
NGOs, social change and the transformation of human relationships: A 21st-century civic agenda
Globalisation shifts the balance of power from public to private interests, including NGOs. However, sustainable development requires a change in power relations that runs much deeper than this: a shift from using power over others to advance our selfish interests, to using power to facilitate the self-development of all. This demands constant attention to personal change, and a series of reversals in attitudes and behaviour. In this paper we arg…
Integrating Family Planning with Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: The Past as Prologue
Gender Equality in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Lessons from the MDGs
This article addresses some central issues for the Post-2015 Development Agenda from a Southern perspective on gender equality and women's human rights. To answer this question, it first examines what lessons can be learned from the decade or so of implementation of the MDGs. The article focuses on two ‘meso’ challenges: breaking down issue silos, and integration/participation. It argues that progress towards gender equality will depend on whethe…
Health inequalities: Gendered puzzles and conundrums. The 10th Annual Sol Levine Lecture on Society and Health, October 6, 2008
Engendering Poverty Alleviation: Challenges and Opportunities
Addressing disrespect and abuse during childbirth in facilities
Progress of the world’s women 2015–2016: Transforming economies, realizing rights
Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016 sets out a vision of a global economy fit for women: providing key elements of a far-reaching new policy agenda, one rooted in the human rights framework, that bring rights -- the right of all women to a good job, with equal pay and safe working conditions; the right to an adequate pension; the right to healthcare, and water and sanitation -- into economic policymaking and transform economies with women's r…
Breaking through the development silos: Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Millennium Development Goals and gender equity - experiences from Mexico, India and Nigeria
Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment, and Rights
In this volume, scholars, policy-makers and women's health advocates suggest a new consensus on population policy directions for the 21st century, centred on health, women's empowerment, and human rights. They argue that public policy should assure the rights and well-being of people, rather than simply attempting to limit the ultimate size of the world's population
Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment, and Rights
Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives
The Sexual Divison of Labor and the Working-class Family: Towards a Conceptual Synthesis of Class Relations and the Subordination of Women
This paper attempts to outline an argument that combines a non functionalist vision of the working-class family under capitalism with a discus sion of the sexual division of labor and the related subordination of women with in working-class families. It does this by posing the following questions: Is there a sexual division of labor peculiar to capitalism? What role do protective legisla tion and struggles for a family wage play in creating that …
"Accumulation, Reproduction, and "Women's Role in Economic Development: Boserup Revisited
Class and Gender Inequalities and Women's Role in Economic Development: Theoretical and Practical Implications
Although problems faced by Third World women in their social and economic lives have gotten more attention from developmental agencies in the past decade there has been insufficient attention paid to respecting womens economic and reproductive rights. It is necessary to examine the interaction of class formation and gender relations in order to understand the nature of womens subordination and to change societies to make them more egalitarian. Ch…
Crecimiento y justicia social: Experiencias y perspectivas
Traducción del inglés: Sonia Daza
Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives
Desarrollo, crisis y enfoques alternativos: Perspectivas de la mujer en el Tercer Mundo
Development, Crises and Alternative Visions. Third World Women's Perspectives
Power and decision: The Social Control of Reproduction
Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment, and Rights
In this volume, scholars, policy-makers and women's health advocates suggest a new consensus on population policy directions for the 21st century, centred on health, women's empowerment, and human rights. They argue that public policy should assure the rights and well-being of people, rather than simply attempting to limit the ultimate size of the world's population
Population policy and women's rights: Transforming reproductive choice
Ruth Dixon-Mueller Praeger, Westport and London, 1993
Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment, and Rights
Gender, markets and states: A selective review and research agenda
Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment and Rights
In this volume, scholars, policy-makers and women's health advocates suggest a new consensus on population policy directions for the 21st century, centred on health, women's empowerment, and human rights. They argue that public policy should assure the rights and well-being of people, rather than simply attempting to limit the ultimate size of the world's population
Power and Decision: The Social Control of Reproduction
Reprodução: O Desafio Feminista Para Uma Política Social
Este trabalho defende a idéia de que os programas estatais do bem-estar social, tanto histórica quanto contemporaneamente, são o resultado de teorias políticas que reforçam freqüentemente as disparidades de gênero, classe e de raça/etnia na sociedade, através da forma com que se referem ou não à reprodução
World development report 1995: Workers in an integrating world
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Engendering Poverty Alleviation: Challenges and Opportunities
Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Processes: Moving Beyond Cairo
There is general consensus among the international population community that the commitment achieved at the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) to womens empowerment, along with the related goals of improving womens reproductive health and securing their reproductive rights, represented a paradigm shift in the discourse about population and development, even though there are differences in view whether this is a p…
Women's empowerment and demographic processes: Moving beyond Cairo
Gender Mainstreaming in Finance Ministries
NGOs, social change and the transformation of human relationships: A 21st-century civic agenda
Globalisation shifts the balance of power from public to private interests, including NGOs. However, sustainable development requires a change in power relations that runs much deeper than this: a shift from using power over others to advance our selfish interests, to using power to facilitate the self-development of all. This demands constant attention to personal change, and a series of reversals in attitudes and behaviour. In this paper we arg…
Engendering International Health: The Challenge of Equity
Engendering International Health presents the work of leading researchers on gender equity in international health. Growing economic inequalities reinforce social injustices, stall health gains, and deny good health to many. In particular, deep-seated gender biases in health research and policy institutions combine with a lack of well-articulated and accessible evidence to downgrade the importance of gender perspectives in health. The book?s cent…
The intersections of gender and class in health status and health care
It is increasingly recognized that different axes of social power relations, such as gender and class, are interrelated, not as additive but as intersecting processes. This paper has reviewed existing research on the intersections between gender and class, and their impacts on health status and access to health care. The review suggests that intersecting stratification processes can significantly alter the impacts of any one dimension of inequali…
Gender inequity in health: Why it exists and how we can change it
This Special Supplement of Global Public Health brings together the short versions of eight reviews, written in 2007, as part of the work of the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network (WGEKN) of
A response to Bates, Hankivsky and Springer on the WHO Knowledge Network on Women and Gender Equity Commission on Social Determinants of Health
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