Being born female is dangerous for your health
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8708692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elaine Murphy (0000-0001-6587-5113, corresponding author), Elaine M Murphy |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 205-210 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0003-066x.58.3.205 |
| PMID | 12772426 |
| OpenAlex | W1977568740 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 19 |
In this article, the author explores how gender inequity is manifested in poor reproductive and mental health outcomes, including unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortion, maternal mortality, sexually transmitted infections, depression, and psychosomatic symptoms. Briefly described is a landmark 1994 United Nations conference emphasizing that gender inequity adversely affects women's reproductive health, particularly in developing countries, and the implementation of its recommendations is tracked. Although there is increased recognition of oppression's toll on women's physical and emotional health as well as their intellectual and social potential, progress toward equity goals is uneven and slow. Psychologists as a group play many roles--for example, in research, education, policy, law, communications, industry, international development, and private practice--through which they can make professional contributions to gender equity as a focus or underlying principle
Economic growth · Environmental health · Equity (law · Family planning · Gender equity · Health equity · Mental health · Oppression · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Public health · Reproductive health · Sociology · Toll · Unsafe abortion · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Child and Adolescent Health · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2021 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |