The State of Women and Leadership in Health

[Gunnar Larson]

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Women are still unable to get into the C-suite in decent numbers, and
that’s especially true in global health and development as a whole. A
recent Women in Global Health report highlights the gaping disparities for
women leaders.

The State of Women and Leadership in Health report reveals that while women
hold around 70% of health worker jobs globally, they only account for 25%
of senior leadership roles, writes Natalie.

And not all groups of women are equally represented among the few that have
managed to shatter the glass ceiling, with women from low- and
middle-income countries particularly missing in global health leadership.
According to data from 50/50 Global Health, only 5% of leadership roles in
health are held by women from LMICs.

When Sekai Chikowero — now vice president of programs at the nonprofit
EngenderHealth — was a country director in the early 2000s in her native
Zimbabwe and later in Tanzania, she could count the Black country directors
heading international NGOs on “one hand and not even finish all the fingers
… never mind being a female African country director. It was just so rare.”

While localization efforts are driving change, Dr. Sai Subhasree Raghavan —
president of India-based SAATHII, which advances access to health and
social services for marginalized communities — questions the concept of
global health itself. “We talk about global health but the majority of the
leadership positions are not held by women or men from resource-poor
settings. And so I question the definition of global health itself.”

Find out how these women got to the top of their game and are helping
others do the same.
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