Olena Hankivsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 365252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olena Hankivsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olena |
| FAMILY NAME | Hankivsky |
| SIGNATURE | HANKIVSKY O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6083-7238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 626 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Taking stock of intersectionality-informed policy guidance for post-pandemic recovery: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 was a catalyst for popularizing intersectionality, an approach now recognized as central to understanding the inequitable consequences of COVID-19 and as a necessary lens for recovery. Yet, a key question remains: Did the pandemic provide the stimulus for improving or advancing operational policy-relevant guidance for intersectionality? Answering this is critical, given persistent calls for practical policy guidance for opera…
Integrating Intersectionality in Policy: A Review and Analysis of Guidance
Addressing inequities is a pressing policy priority, particularly with growing awareness of interlocking global challenges, including pandemic recovery. Although Canada has been a leader in developing intersectionality-informed policy approaches, interest in intersectionality is growing internationally. Yet, misunderstandings persist on how to operationalize intersectionality, and calls are being made to develop clear and effective guidance to do…
Responding to inequities in public policy: Is GBA+ the right way to operationalize intersectionality
Cautioning Against the Co‐optation of Intersectionality in Gender Mainstreaming
Gender mainstreaming (GM) is an international strategy to advance gender equality. Recently, there has been a shift within GM—recognition that gender interacts with other forms of inequity. There is thus growing attention to intersectionality and how it can complement GM. Although advancing understandings of gender is critical, there is a need for caution. Using examples of international organizations, we argue that intersectionality cannot be an…
Transversalización de género: Un acercamiento al caso de Colombia y una propuesta interseccional
Based on the personal and professional stories of 30 women, this article presents the results of a pioneering research on gender mainstreaming in Colombia. The objective is to understand it in three different areas: the academia, the NGO sector, and the government, in order to analyze the intersectional resistance as a way to achieve structural changes against the multiple oppressions experienced in the country. The qualitative methodology is bas…
The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy
Equalities ‘devolved’: Experiences in mainstreaming across the UK devolved powers post-Equality Act 2010
Intersectionality and why it matters to global health
Gender-Based Analysis Plus in Canada: Problems and Possibilities of Integrating Intersectionality
International debate is ongoing regarding the innovation of gender mainstreaming (GM), its efficacy, and future utility. Likewise, in Canada, there is a push to learn from early GM efforts and a renewed focus on creating more responsive mainstreaming strategies. Although Canada’s gender-based analysis (GBA) has been researched and evaluated, this study uses the feminist theory of intersectionality to examine the newer GBA+ model, which builds on …
Recent Suicide Attempts Across Multiple Social Identities Among Gay and Bisexual Men: An Intersectionality Analysis
This study draws from intersectionality to describe variations in recent suicide attempts (RSA) among gay and bisexual men (GBM) across sociodemographics. Using survey data, logistic regression modeling explored RSA in two analytical stages: (1) the individual effects of each sociodemographic were measured; (2) two-way interaction terms between sociodemographics were tested and added to the models created in stage A. In stage A, only education an…
The odd couple: Using biomedical and intersectional approaches to address health inequities
BACKGROUND: Better understanding and addressing health inequities is a growing global priority. OBJECTIVE: In this paper, we contribute to the literature examining complex relationships between biological and social dimensions in the field of health inequalities. Specifically, we explore the potential of intersectionality to advance current approaches to socio-biological entwinements. DESIGN: We provide a brief overview of current approaches to c…
Self-rated health and barriers to healthcare in Ukraine: The pivotal role of gender and its intersections
The ongoing health crisis in the Ukraine has persisted for 48 years with a clear division of gender-based outcomes as seen in the decline of male life expectancy and stagnation of female longevity. The purpose of this paper is to investigate differences in self-rated health and system barriers to health care applicable to gender and its intersections because of the differing negative health outcomes for men and women. Intersectionality theory pro…
Intersectionality and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Response to Johnson and Beaudet’s commentary: Moving beyond sex and gender reporting in health research
The Current Situation and Potential Responses to Movements against Gender Equality in Ukraine
Gender equality in Ukraine is facing resistance. Although this backlash is not uniquely Ukrainian, it can have profound consequences for Ukraine’s efforts to integrate into the European Union. This paper reveals various aspects of a movement called “Stop Gender,” examining letter writing campaigns, political lobbying and an anti-gender equality blog. It assesses the key arguments of the movement, considers their impact on gender mainstreaming eff…
An intersectionality-based policy analysis framework: Critical reflections on a methodology for advancing equity
The aim of this paper is to inspire a range of policy actors to recognize the potential of IBPA to foreground the complex contexts of health and social problems, and ultimately to transform how policy analysis is undertaken
Rethinking Care Ethics: On the Promise and Potential of an Intersectional Analysis
This article contributes to current debates and discussions in critical social theory about diversity, inclusion/exclusion, power, and social justice by exploring intersectionality as an important theoretical resource to further develop and advance care ethics. Using intersectionality as a critical reference point, the investigation highlights two key shortcomings of care ethics which stem from this ethics' prioritization of gender and gendered p…
Gender Mainstreaming: A Five‐Country Examination
Although gender mainstreaming ( GM ) has been the international norm for working toward gender equality in policies and practices since the F ourth W orld C onference on W omen in B eijing 1995, its impact has been uneven. The lack of substantive results has led to debate surrounding GM's capacity for engendering meaningful policy change. This article synthesizes the input of key GM stakeholders (within government, academia, and nongovernmental o…
Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine
Which Genocide Matters the Most? An Intersectionality Analysis of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights, scheduled to open in 2014, is envisioned as a place to learn about the struggle for human rights in Canada and internationally. Yet the museum has faced controversy because of the centrality of the Holocaust in the overall human rights story, prompting other groups whose nations and populations have experienced genocide to make demands that the museum provide equal treatment of other national and international…
Critically examining diversity in end-of-life family caregiving: Implications for equitable caregiver support and Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit
We contend that without considering diversity, patterns in vulnerability and inequity are overlooked, and thus continually reinforced in health policy. Based on our findings, we demonstrate that re-framing categorizations of caregivers can expose specific vulnerabilities and inequities while identifying implications for the CCB program as it is currently administered. From a policy perspective, this analysis demonstrates why diversity needs to be…
Gender and health: Relational, intersectional, and biosocial approaches
Women's health, men's health, and gender and health: Implications of intersectionality
Why the Theory and Practice of Intersectionality Matter to Health Research and Policy
Health Inequities in Canada: Intersectional Frameworks and Practices
There is a growing recognition that existing theories on, and approaches to, health inequities are limited in their ability to capture how these inequities are produced through changing, co-constituted, and intersecting effects of multiple forms of oppression. Intersectionality responds to this problem by considering the interactions and combined impacts of social locations and structural processes on the creation and perpetuation of inequities. …
Women's health, men's health, and gender and health: Implications of intersectionality
Intersectionality and Public Policy: Some Lessons from Existing Models
In comparison to research practices, intersectionality is an underdeveloped concept within policy discourse and application. Because of the complexity and relative newness of this approach, policy analysis grounded within an intersectionality framework remains largely undertheorized, and methods for integrating intersectionality into policy processes are in the nascent stages. This article (1) defines intersectionality and demonstrates the need f…
Rethinking Care Ethics: On the Promise and Potential of an Intersectional Analysis
This article contributes to current debates and discussions in critical social theory about diversity, inclusion/exclusion, power, and social justice by exploring intersectionality as an important theoretical resource to further develop and advance care ethics. Using intersectionality as a critical reference point, the investigation highlights two key shortcomings of care ethics which stem from this ethics' prioritization of gender and gendered p…
Gender and health: Relational, intersectional, and biosocial approaches
Gender vs. Diversity Mainstreaming: A Preliminary Examination of the Role and Transformative Potential of Feminist Theory
This paper considers why gender mainstreaming (GM), a strategy that many have claimed holds promise for transforming public policy and working towards social justice, is inherently limited and flawed. The paper begins with a brief overview of GM, specifically focusing on the Canadian context, and highlights current discussions in the literature regarding issues of implementation and best practices. It then moves on to reveal that a critical but o…
Recent Suicide Attempts Across Multiple Social Identities Among Gay and Bisexual Men: An Intersectionality Analysis
This study draws from intersectionality to describe variations in recent suicide attempts (RSA) among gay and bisexual men (GBM) across sociodemographics. Using survey data, logistic regression modeling explored RSA in two analytical stages: (1) the individual effects of each sociodemographic were measured; (2) two-way interaction terms between sociodemographics were tested and added to the models created in stage A. In stage A, only education an…
Which Genocide Matters the Most? An Intersectionality Analysis of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights, scheduled to open in 2014, is envisioned as a place to learn about the struggle for human rights in Canada and internationally. Yet the museum has faced controversy because of the centrality of the Holocaust in the overall human rights story, prompting other groups whose nations and populations have experienced genocide to make demands that the museum provide equal treatment of other national and international…
Gender and health inequities: A comment on the Final Report of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health
Women and Violence: The Effects of Dismantling the Welfare State
In Canada the idea that social entitlements are important components of citizenship and equality is currently being undermined by neo-liberal state values, expressed in federal and provincial policy shifts that favour self-sufficiency and economic competitiveness over a strong welfare state. Although this trend is dangerous for all populations marginalized through poverty, racism and disability, it is especially dangerous for women who are attemp…
Gender-Based Analysis Plus in Canada: Problems and Possibilities of Integrating Intersectionality
International debate is ongoing regarding the innovation of gender mainstreaming (GM), its efficacy, and future utility. Likewise, in Canada, there is a push to learn from early GM efforts and a renewed focus on creating more responsive mainstreaming strategies. Although Canada’s gender-based analysis (GBA) has been researched and evaluated, this study uses the feminist theory of intersectionality to examine the newer GBA+ model, which builds on …
Responding to inequities in public policy: Is GBA+ the right way to operationalize intersectionality
Gender mainstreaming in Canada and Australia: A comparative analysis
Although gender mainstreaming (GM) has been endorsed officially at the international level since 1995, the efficacy of this strategy is being increasingly questioned. More research is focusing on understanding the progress and impact of various mainstreaming strategies across jurisdictions and in a comparative context. This article contributes to the literature in the GM field by examining the role and experiences of three key sectors in GM advan…
Imagining ethical globalization: The contributions of a care ethic
Approaches to global ethics have drawn on a number of diverse theoretical traditions, such as Kantianism and utilitarianism. While emerging frameworks contribute to a growing awareness of and interest in ethics within a global society, the values that they prioritize are not adequate for realizing a just, equitable and fair system of global governance. This article considers the possibilities of an alternative ethic-a feminist ethic of care-and e…
Gender Mainstreaming: A Five‐Country Examination
Although gender mainstreaming ( GM ) has been the international norm for working toward gender equality in policies and practices since the F ourth W orld C onference on W omen in B eijing 1995, its impact has been uneven. The lack of substantive results has led to debate surrounding GM's capacity for engendering meaningful policy change. This article synthesizes the input of key GM stakeholders (within government, academia, and nongovernmental o…
Attributing Selected Costs to Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners: A Social Determinants of Health Approach
Selected costs associated with intimate partner violence were estimated for a community sample of 309 Canadian women who left abusive male partners on average 20 months previously. Total annual estimated costs of selected public- and private-sector expenditures attributable to violence were $13,162.39 per woman. This translates to a national annual cost of $6.9 billion for women aged 19–65 who have left abusive partners; $3.1 billion for those ex…
Explaining the Health Gap Experienced by Girls and Women in Canada: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective
In the last few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in the social causes of health inequities among and between individuals and populations. This 'social determinants' perspective focuses on the myriad demographic and societal factors that shape health and well-being. Heeding calls for the mainstreaming of two very specific health determinants - sex and gender - we incorporate both into our analysis of the health gap experienced by gi…
Equalities ‘devolved’: Experiences in mainstreaming across the UK devolved powers post-Equality Act 2010
Gender Mainstreaming in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Application and Applicability
Gender equality has gained substantial political importance in Ukraine, but implementation of the international trend towards ‘gender mainstreaming’ has had mixed success: the phrase is not yet part of the main political discourse, where older terms still prevail. The very term ‘gender’ is novel, and attitudes towards women reflect traditional concerns. Much legislation was adopted in the past decade, supposedly to enshrine gender equality; but t…
Self-rated health and barriers to healthcare in Ukraine: The pivotal role of gender and its intersections
The ongoing health crisis in the Ukraine has persisted for 48 years with a clear division of gender-based outcomes as seen in the decline of male life expectancy and stagnation of female longevity. The purpose of this paper is to investigate differences in self-rated health and system barriers to health care applicable to gender and its intersections because of the differing negative health outcomes for men and women. Intersectionality theory pro…
Gender mainstreaming in the United Kingdom: Current issues and future challenges
Intersectionality and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Expanding Economic Costing in Health Care: Values, Gender and Diversity
Olena Hankivsky, Jane Friesen, Colleen Varcoe, Fiona MacPhail, Lorraine Greaves, Charmaine Spencer, Expanding Economic Costing in Health Care: Values, Gender and Diversity, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Sep., 2004), pp. 257-282
Expanding Economic Costing in Health Care: Values, Gender and Diversity
Olena Hankivsky, Jane Friesen, Colleen Varcoe, Fiona MacPhail, Lorraine Greaves, Charmaine Spencer, Expanding Economic Costing in Health Care: Values, Gender and Diversity, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Sep., 2004), pp. 257-282
Women and Violence: The Effects of Dismantling the Welfare State
In Canada the idea that social entitlements are important components of citizenship and equality is currently being undermined by neo-liberal state values, expressed in federal and provincial policy shifts that favour self-sufficiency and economic competitiveness over a strong welfare state. Although this trend is dangerous for all populations marginalized through poverty, racism and disability, it is especially dangerous for women who are attemp…
Social policy and the ethic of care
First-Generation Care Theorists and Liberal Assessments of Care 2. Second-Generation Care Theorists and the Moral Principles of Care 3. The Interpretation of Equality: A Study of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 4. Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A Care-Informed Approach for Compensating Victims of Institutional Abuse 5. Economic Costing in Social Policy: The Ethics of Quantifying Intangible Losses 6. Caregiving: Reconceptuali…
Gender vs. Diversity Mainstreaming: A Preliminary Examination of the Role and Transformative Potential of Feminist Theory
This paper considers why gender mainstreaming (GM), a strategy that many have claimed holds promise for transforming public policy and working towards social justice, is inherently limited and flawed. The paper begins with a brief overview of GM, specifically focusing on the Canadian context, and highlights current discussions in the literature regarding issues of implementation and best practices. It then moves on to reveal that a critical but o…
Imagining ethical globalization: The contributions of a care ethic
Approaches to global ethics have drawn on a number of diverse theoretical traditions, such as Kantianism and utilitarianism. While emerging frameworks contribute to a growing awareness of and interest in ethics within a global society, the values that they prioritize are not adequate for realizing a just, equitable and fair system of global governance. This article considers the possibilities of an alternative ethic-a feminist ethic of care-and e…
Reflections on the Future of Women's Health Research in a Comparative Context
Intersectionality and the determinants of health: A Canadian perspective
Despite Canada's leadership in the field of population health, there have been few successes in reducing the country's health inequities. There is an increasing recognition that regardless of the progress made to date, significant gaps remain in comprehending fully the root causes of inequities, including the complex ways in which the determinants of health relate, intersect and mutually reinforce one another. Calls are being made to draw on the …
Gender mainstreaming in Canada and Australia: A comparative analysis
Although gender mainstreaming (GM) has been endorsed officially at the international level since 1995, the efficacy of this strategy is being increasingly questioned. More research is focusing on understanding the progress and impact of various mainstreaming strategies across jurisdictions and in a comparative context. This article contributes to the literature in the GM field by examining the role and experiences of three key sectors in GM advan…
Gender and health inequities: A comment on the Final Report of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health
Explaining the Health Gap Experienced by Girls and Women in Canada: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective
In the last few decades there has been a resurgence of interest in the social causes of health inequities among and between individuals and populations. This 'social determinants' perspective focuses on the myriad demographic and societal factors that shape health and well-being. Heeding calls for the mainstreaming of two very specific health determinants - sex and gender - we incorporate both into our analysis of the health gap experienced by gi…
Exploring the promises of intersectionality for advancing women's health research
Women's health research strives to make change. It seeks to produce knowledge that promotes action on the variety of factors that affect women's lives and their health. As part of this general movement, important strides have been made to raise awareness of the health effects of sex and gender. The resultant base of knowledge has been used to inform health research, policy, and practice. Increasingly, however, the need to pay better attention to …
Gender Mainstreaming in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Application and Applicability
Gender equality has gained substantial political importance in Ukraine, but implementation of the international trend towards ‘gender mainstreaming’ has had mixed success: the phrase is not yet part of the main political discourse, where older terms still prevail. The very term ‘gender’ is novel, and attitudes towards women reflect traditional concerns. Much legislation was adopted in the past decade, supposedly to enshrine gender equality; but t…
Why the Theory and Practice of Intersectionality Matter to Health Research and Policy
Health Inequities in Canada: Intersectional Frameworks and Practices
There is a growing recognition that existing theories on, and approaches to, health inequities are limited in their ability to capture how these inequities are produced through changing, co-constituted, and intersecting effects of multiple forms of oppression. Intersectionality responds to this problem by considering the interactions and combined impacts of social locations and structural processes on the creation and perpetuation of inequities. …
Gender mainstreaming in the United Kingdom: Current issues and future challenges
Attributing Selected Costs to Intimate Partner Violence in a Sample of Women Who Have Left Abusive Partners: A Social Determinants of Health Approach
Selected costs associated with intimate partner violence were estimated for a community sample of 309 Canadian women who left abusive male partners on average 20 months previously. Total annual estimated costs of selected public- and private-sector expenditures attributable to violence were $13,162.39 per woman. This translates to a national annual cost of $6.9 billion for women aged 19–65 who have left abusive partners; $3.1 billion for those ex…
Intersectionality and Public Policy: Some Lessons from Existing Models
In comparison to research practices, intersectionality is an underdeveloped concept within policy discourse and application. Because of the complexity and relative newness of this approach, policy analysis grounded within an intersectionality framework remains largely undertheorized, and methods for integrating intersectionality into policy processes are in the nascent stages. This article (1) defines intersectionality and demonstrates the need f…
Critically examining diversity in end-of-life family caregiving: Implications for equitable caregiver support and Canada’s Compassionate Care Benefit
We contend that without considering diversity, patterns in vulnerability and inequity are overlooked, and thus continually reinforced in health policy. Based on our findings, we demonstrate that re-framing categorizations of caregivers can expose specific vulnerabilities and inequities while identifying implications for the CCB program as it is currently administered. From a policy perspective, this analysis demonstrates why diversity needs to be…
Gender and health: Relational, intersectional, and biosocial approaches
Women's health, men's health, and gender and health: Implications of intersectionality
Gender Mainstreaming: A Five‐Country Examination
Although gender mainstreaming ( GM ) has been the international norm for working toward gender equality in policies and practices since the F ourth W orld C onference on W omen in B eijing 1995, its impact has been uneven. The lack of substantive results has led to debate surrounding GM's capacity for engendering meaningful policy change. This article synthesizes the input of key GM stakeholders (within government, academia, and nongovernmental o…
Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine
Which Genocide Matters the Most? An Intersectionality Analysis of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
The Canadian Museum of Human Rights, scheduled to open in 2014, is envisioned as a place to learn about the struggle for human rights in Canada and internationally. Yet the museum has faced controversy because of the centrality of the Holocaust in the overall human rights story, prompting other groups whose nations and populations have experienced genocide to make demands that the museum provide equal treatment of other national and international…
The Current Situation and Potential Responses to Movements against Gender Equality in Ukraine
Gender equality in Ukraine is facing resistance. Although this backlash is not uniquely Ukrainian, it can have profound consequences for Ukraine’s efforts to integrate into the European Union. This paper reveals various aspects of a movement called “Stop Gender,” examining letter writing campaigns, political lobbying and an anti-gender equality blog. It assesses the key arguments of the movement, considers their impact on gender mainstreaming eff…
An intersectionality-based policy analysis framework: Critical reflections on a methodology for advancing equity
The aim of this paper is to inspire a range of policy actors to recognize the potential of IBPA to foreground the complex contexts of health and social problems, and ultimately to transform how policy analysis is undertaken
Sociology (35 works) · Political science (32 works) · Gender Studies (25 works) · Law (19 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Intersectionality (18 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Economics (9 works) · Gender equality (9 works)