Engendering Governance in Health?

Abstract

This chapter focuses on questions of gendered governance in health. The chapter looks at how policy processes are shaped at both the global and macro levels and how policy impacts are mediated by meso-level institutions. Policy legacy debates have highlighted how interest groups are created at different points in the evolution of health systems and how policy feedback occurs which plays a role in shaping the outcome of subsequent reforms. The chapter highlights how these processes are gendered and how deeply embedded norms and assumptions around gender roles reinforce the exclusion of women from policy processes. After an exploration of these issues within the Latin American context, the chapter provides a detailed analysis of the Chilean case.