Unpaid labour, #MeToo, and young women in global health

McBride, Bronwyn; Mitra, Sanjana; Kondo, Valerie; Elmi, Halima; Kamal, Mehnaz

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(18)30992-9

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“…Within the academic and global health implementation-oriented group, almost every woman present had been affected by gender-based violence, while many men had not realized the severity or extent of the issue [3]. Many have called for the field of global health to more intentionally focus on the protection of women in academia from experiencing SGBV, both locally and globally [3,6,7]. Women across disciplines describe experiences of unwanted physical contact, sexual harassment, intimidation, and sexual assault by supervisors, colleagues, gatekeepers, participants, acquaintances, and strangers [4,5,8].…”

Section: Women's Experience Of Sexual and Gender-based Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within their formal program requirements, graduate students undertake a great deal of mental, emotional, and physical labor, exacerbated by time-constraints and financial costs [17,18]. Moreover, students' labor can be hard to define and is highly precarious, with few to no policies guaranteeing legal protections [6,10]. Hidden work is not equally valued and makes advocating for better working conditions or protections extremely difficult [19].…”

Section: Hidden Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Limited research suggests a wide range of both negative and positive short-and long-term implications which necessitate further exploration [4,5]. Moreover, insufficient research has been dedicated to understanding the physical, mental, and emotional lived experience (and thus, consequences) of public health graduate students participating in global health fieldwork, including women's experience of sexual and genderbased violence (SGBV) [3,4,6,7].…”

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confidence: 99%

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You can’t report your feelings: The hidden labor of managing threats to safety by women in global public health fieldwork

McAuliffe

Upshur

Sellen

et al. 2022

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Increasing job market demand for and availability of Canadian and U.S. global academic health programs in post-secondary education increases student demand to participate in internationally based fieldwork, while supportive resources remain weakly developed. Previous studies indicate provisions to protect the health, safety, and well-being of women students remain inadequately addressed during training, while more research to identify needs, expectations, gaps, and best practices would inform policy and practice to improve conditions for women working off-campus on global public health studies. One approach, reported here, is to document and better understand the lived experience of U.S. or Canadian women graduate students participating in global public health fieldwork. Participant in-depth phenomenological interviews and guided writing exercises aimed to capture lived experience descriptions for 25 women. A phenomenology of practice was applied throughout the research process, following Max van Manen’s qualitative methodology approach. Loss of environmental familiarity, combined with graduate students’ lack of power, created considerable hidden labor described by women in working to keep themselves safe from sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) while participating in global public health fieldwork. Women shared specific experiences exemplifying how this can be both alleviated and/or intensified through a range of negotiated strategies, coping styles, and management techniques. Additionally, women recalled laboring as students to avoid or reduce instances of SGBV, that then, precluded them from having any material “of substance” to report once returned home. These findings offer new meaning structures, language for a foreign experience, or ways to describe, conceive of, and respond to global public health fieldwork that hold the potential to positively affect individuals’ experiences, institutional understanding, and thus practice, of future women students in global public health.

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Section: Women's Experience Of Sexual and Gender-based Violencementioning

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Section: Hidden Labormentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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You can’t report your feelings: The hidden labor of managing threats to safety by women in global public health fieldwork

McAuliffe

Upshur

Sellen

et al. 2022

PLOS Glob Public Health

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“…According to the study, many girls experienced a great deal of pressure to participate in sexual activities that they were not ready for and 12-28% of the girls reported gross sexual violence [3]. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, women around the world have revolted against sexual violence, and the strength of their voices has led to better access to appropriate resources for survivors and thus opportunities for a better quality of life [4].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Persistent Suffering: The Serious Consequences of Sexual Violence against Women and Girls, Their Search for Inner Healing and the Significance of the #MeToo Movement

Sigurðardóttir

Halldórsdóttir

2021

IJERPH

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This paper uses the method of theory synthesis, primarily from our own previous studies and psychoneuroimmunology research, with the aim of exploring and better understanding the consequences of sexual violence for women and their search for inner healing. The impact of the #MeToo movement is also examined. The main finding is that sexual violence causes persistent suffering for women and girls. In childhood and adolescence, the main consequences include a feeling of unbearable secrecy, threat and humiliation; disconnection of body and soul; great fear and constant insecurity; damaged self-image, self-accusation and guilt; experiencing being compelled to take full responsibility for the crime; as well as various physical and mental health problems, e.g., suicidal thoughts. In adulthood, the consequences are also multifaceted and varied, including vaginal problems, recurrent urinary tract infections, widespread and chronic pain, sleeping problems, chronic back problems, and fibromyalgia, eating disorders, social anxiety, severe depression, and chronic fatigue. In conclusion, sexual violence has these extremely negative and long-term consequences because of the interconnectedness of body, mind, and soul. The seriousness of the consequences makes a trauma-informed approach to services essential to support the healing and improved health and well-being of survivors.

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“…While challenges of power, money, publication, data use, and so on, within such collaborations are widely discussed,6 8–10 there is relative silence around sexual violence. Gender inequality in global health is increasingly discussed11—as scientific panels are often composed of a majority of (or only) men and the work of unpaid young women represents a large proportion of global health internships 12. There is a new movement to highlight women leaders in global health,13 and junior women researchers are calling to depatriarchalise science for French-speaking women 14.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%