Women’s Health
Gender inequities in health prevail in most countries throughout the world, despite ongoing attempts to eliminate them. Across the globe, prospects for good health among women are limited by social norms, practices, and policies that are rooted in gender discrimination and bias. The 1985 United Nations Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi was monumental in recognizing the importance of factors such as cultural ideology, legal rights, and political parity in the determinants of health and wellbeing for girls and women.
At UCSC faculty take an approach to women’s health that considers the socio-cultural context of women’s lives and structural inequities that determine both their health and health rights. We work across a wide variety of disciplines and specialities (from cancer genomics to feminist studies to psychology) to tackle the complex problems behind women’s health by focusing on issues such as well-being and agency, the bioethics of data sharing, reproductive decision-making, and violence.
Faculty
Heather Bullock
Professor and Director of the Blum Center
Psychology Department
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