Gender Matters Seminar

Published: Monday, April 14, 2014

Did you know that generally women and men have different experiences of cardiovascular health in treatment, diagnosis and health outcomes?  Gender stereotyping and a lack of awareness of female symptoms (shoulder and abdominal pain rather than severe chest pain) may explain why women have significantly higher rate of death following a heart attack.

Our "Gender Matters" seminar took place on March 31st, to highligh the fact that the factors that determine health and ill health are not the same for women and men and to call on the HSE to implement a gender mainstreaming approach in policy planning and service delivery.

Keynote speakers included Keynote Speakers:

• Dr. Noreen Shields, Planning and Development Manager, Corporate Inequalities Team, National Health Service, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Ms. Jane Pillinger, Gender Mainstreaming Expert
• Mr. Eddie Ward, Health Services Executive

On the day, we launched three resources on why gender matters in the health services will be launched on the day. GENDER MATTERS’ – A User Friendly Guide to gender mainstreaming; ‘GENDER MATTERS’ - Training for Trainers Manual and ‘GENDER MATTERS’  - Toolkit for mainstreaming gender in health service policy, planning and delivery. These can be accessed here