Equal but Different A framework for integrating gender equality in Health Service Executive Policy, Planning and Service Delivery

Senior level commitment and leadership is essential to have a transformative effect on the delivery of services to women, men and transgenderpersons. The framework has been developed under the aegis of an inter-agency Gender Mainstreaming Steering Group led by the HSE (Population Health/Health Promotion) and the National Women’s Council of Ireland and including men’s organisations,the Equality Authority, the Irish Cancer Society and the
Institute of Public Health. It identifies eight key steps required to achieve gender equality within the HSE.namely (1)senior level commitment and leadership (2) awareness raising about gender differences in health (3) collating and analysing gendeI. this framework show how changes in awareness and capacity of all staff needs to be implemented so that gender mainstreaming becomes part of the core work of the HSE.

Why it's a good practice: • Economic equality, covering employment, income and
economic development and linked to access to social goods
such as health services, education and housing.
• Political equality, access to and participation in decision
making in public and private spheres of society and political
representation
• Cultural equality based on the recognition,
acknowledgement and valuing of diversity on the basis of a
person’s identity
• Affective / caring equality based on the creation of social
relations of solidarity, trust and respect between social
groups and the recognition of care work.

Read the full analysis: https://www.nwci.ie/download/pdf/equal_but_different_final_report.pdf