The Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network focuses on mechanisms, processes and actions that can be taken to reduce gender-based inequities in health by examining the following five areas:
- Factors affecting social stratification and how to improve women’s status relative to men.
- Differential exposures to health-damaging factors.
- Differential vulnerabilities leading to inequitable health outcomes.
- Differential economical and social consequences of illness and reproductive health needs.
- Engendering health systems and health research.
A key component of this work includes identifying best practice examples of programs, policies and interventions that can be scaled up to reduce gender-based inequities in health and therefore generating knowledge for action.