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A male Community Health Volunteer in Isiolo, northern Kenya, bends down to assess a seated pregnant patient.
27 April 2026

Stepping Up or Stepping Down? Gendered Health Labour in Kenya

The face of care work, both paid and unpaid, is famously female. However, in northern Kenya, the majority of Community Health Volunteers are men. Kathy Dodworth and Brenda N. Mukungu explore shifting labour norms in this part of Kenya.

ASHA Workers wearing pink, sitting down in protest
01 May 2023

Recognition for gendered work: A post-pandemic hope and demand

Indian community health workers (or ASHAs), provide essential forms of care and labour during a health crisis. Yet their own lives are not safeguarded and they struggle for access to […]

Professor Karin Marcy
24 April 2023

On Menstrual Justice

Professor Marcy Karin shares her remarks from the GENDER.ED-IASH event on Reproductive Justice to mark International Women’s Day in 2023. We don’t talk about menstrual injustice enough, she writes. On […]

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