{"id":2651,"date":"2025-06-05T06:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=2651"},"modified":"2025-06-11T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:08:09","slug":"the-gender-gap-in-health-systems-leadership","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/stories\/the-gender-gap-in-health-systems-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gender Gap in Health Systems Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/our_fellows\/adaeze-oreh\/\">Adaeze Oreh<\/a>, 2019 New Voices Senior Fellow, spoke on the civil society engaged-panel, &#8220;Advancing Universal Health Coverage in a Changing World- the Case for Gender-Responsive Health Systems\u201c at the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She reflects on the gender leadership gap, with only 25% of women making up health sector leadership despite their higher rates of participation. \u201cCompetence, capability, and commitment are clearly not the issue,\u201d she echoes. She points to the social determinants of a woman\u2019s fate: How perceived gender norms and sidelining are the true systemic barriers to improved organizational outcomes and performance. She further outlines her ideas and recommendations to navigate these gendered obstacles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read her reflections below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Cover photo sourced from <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ng.linkedin.com\/in\/adaeze-oreh-8a66604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oreh&#8217;s LinkedIn<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2656,"template":"","publication_category":[49],"publication_theme":[56,71],"class_list":["post-2651","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","featured-featured-bottom","publication_category-oped","publication_theme-gender","publication_theme-leadership"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_category?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"publication_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_theme?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}